Rui Teles; Eric Van Belle; Radosław Parma; Giuseppe Tarantini; Nicolas van Mieghem; Darren Mylotte; Joana Silva; Stephen O’Connor; Lars Sondegaard; André Luz; Ignacio Amat-Santos; Dabit Arzamendi; Daniel Blackman; Ole De Backer; Vijay Kunadian; Gill Buchanan; Phil MacCarthy; Philipp Lurz; Christopher Naber; Alaide Chieffo; Valeria Paradies; Martine Gilard; Flavien Vincent; Chiara Fraccaro; Julinda Mehilli; Cristina Giannini; Bruno Silva; Petra Poliacikova; Nicole Karam; Verena Veulemans; Holger Thiele; Thomas Pilgrim; Marleen van Wely; Stefan James; Michael Schmidt; Anselm Uebing; Andreas Rück; Alexander Ghanem; Ziyad Ghazzal; Francis Joshi; Luca Favero; Renicus Hermanides; Vlasis Ninios; Luca Fovino; Rutger-Jan Nuis; Pierre Deharo; Petr Kala; Gabby Elbaz-Greener; Didier Tchétché; Eustachio Agricola; Matthias Thielmann; Erwan Donal; Nikolaos Bonaros; Steven Droogmans; Martin Czerny; Andreas Baumbach; Emanuele Barbato; Dariusz Dudek

doi:10.4244/EIJ-D-23-00983

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EAPCI core curriculum

DOI: 10.4244/EIJ-D-23-00983

Percutaneous Valvular and Structural Heart Disease Interventions. 2024 Core Curriculum of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI) of the ESC in collaboration with the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) and the Cardiovascular Surgery Working Group (WG CVS) of the European Society of Cardiology

Rui Campante Teles¹, MD, PhD; Eric Van Belle², MD, PhD; Radoslaw Parma³, MD, PhD; Giuseppe Tarantini⁴, MD, PhD; Nicolas van Mieghem⁵, MD, PhD; Darren Mylotte⁶, MD, PhD; Joana Delgado Silva⁷, MD, PhD; Stephen O’Connor⁸, MD; Lars Sondegaard⁹, MD, PhD; Andre Luz¹⁰, MD, PhD; Ignacio Jesus Amat-Santos¹¹, MD, PhD; Dabit Arzamendi¹², MD, PhD; Daniel Blackman¹³, MD; Ole De Backer⁹, MD, PhD; Vijay Kunadian¹⁴, MD, PhD; Gill Louise Buchanan¹⁵, MD; Phil MacCarthy¹⁶, MD; Philipp Lurz¹⁷, MD, PhD; Christopher Naber¹⁸, MD, PhD; Alaide Chieffo¹⁹, MD, PhD; Valeria Paradies²⁰, MD, PhD; Martine Gilard²¹, MD, PhD; Flavien Vincent², MD; Chiara Fraccaro⁴, MD, PhD; Julinda Mehilli²², MD; Cristina Giannini²³, MD; Bruno Silva²⁴, MD; Petra Poliacikova²⁵, MD, PhD; Nicole Karam²⁶, MD, PhD; Verena Veulemans²⁷, MD, PhD; Holger Thiele²⁸, MD, PhD; Thomas Pilgrim²⁹, MD, MSc; Marleen van Wely³⁰, MD; Stefan James³¹, MD, PhD; Michael Rahbek Schmidt³², MD, PhD; Anselm Uebing³³, MD, PhD; Andreas Rück³⁴, MD, PhD; Alexander Ghanem³⁵, MD, PhD; Ziyad Ghazzal³⁶, MD, PhD; Francis R. Joshi⁹^,³⁷, MD, PhD; Luca Favero³⁸, MD; Renicus Hermanides³⁹, MD, PhD; Vlasis Ninios⁴⁰, MD; Luca Nai Fovino⁴, MD, PhD; Rutger-Jan Nuis⁵, MD, PhD; Pierre Deharo⁴¹, MD, PhD; Petr Kala⁴², MD, PhD; Gabby Elbaz-Greener⁴³, MD; Didier Tchétché⁴⁴, MD; Eustachio Agricola⁴⁵, MD, PhD; Matthias Thielmann⁴⁶, MD, PhD; Erwan Donal⁴⁷, MD, PhD; Nikolaos Bonaros⁴⁸, MD, PhD; Steven Droogmans⁴⁹, MD, PhD; Martin Czerny⁵⁰, MD, PhD; Andreas Baumbach⁵¹, MD, PhD; Emanuele Barbato⁵², MD, PhD; Dariusz Dudek⁵³^,⁵⁴, MD, PhD;in collaboration with the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) and the Cardiovascular Surgery Working Group (WG CVS) of the European Society of Cardiology

1. Hospital de Santa Cruz, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental, Carnaxide and Comprehensive Health Research Center (CHRC), Nova Medical School, Lisbon, Portugal; 2. CHU Lille, Institut Coeur Poumon, Cardiologie, Université de Lille, France; 3. Department of Cardiology and Structural Heart Diseases, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland; 4. Interventional Cardiology, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; 5. Erasmus Mc, Interventional Cardiology, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; 6. Department of Cardiology, University Hospital and National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland; 7. Cardiovascular Intervention Unit, Cardiology Department, Coimbra Hospital and University Centre, Coimbra, Portugal; 8. St James's Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Dublin, Ireland; 9. Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; 10. Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal; 11. Hospital Clinico Universitario, Cardiology Department, Valladolid, Spain; 12. Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Cardiology Department, Barcelona, Spain; 13. Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Leeds, United Kingdom; 14. Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, United Kingdom and Cardiothoracic Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom; 15. North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Cardiology Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, United Kingdom; 16. King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom; 17. Department of Cardiology, Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Mainz, Germany; 18. Facharztpraxis Baldeney - Kardiologie und Innere Medizin, Essen, Germany; 19. Interventional Cardiology Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy, and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy; 20. Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; 21. CHU La Cavale Blanche, Department Of Cardiology, Brest, France; 22. Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Intensive Medicine, Hospital Landshut-Achdorf, Landshut, Germany; 23. SD Emodinamica, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy; 24. Cardiology Department, Hospital Central do Funchal, Madeira, Portugal; 25. Central Slovakia Institute of Cardiovascular diseases, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia; 26. European Hospital Georges Pompidou, Cardiology Department, Paris, France; 27. University Heart and Vascular Center Frankfurt, Germany; 28. Leipzig Heart Centre, Internal Medicine/Cardiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; 29. Department of Cardiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; 30. Radboud UMC, Department of Cardiology, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; 31. Department of Medical Sciences and Uppsala Clinical Research Center, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; 32. Adult Congenital Heart Disease Unit, Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; 33. Department of Congenital and Paediatric Cardiology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Germany and German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site Kiel, Kiel, Germany; 34. Karolinska University Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Stockholm, Sweden; 35. Asklepios Klinik Nord - Heidberg, Hamburg, Germany; 36. American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; 37. Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Clydebank, United Kingdom; 38. Cardiovascular Department, Ca' Foncello Regional Hospital, Treviso, Italy; 39. Isala Heart centre, Isala Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Zwolle, the Netherlands; 40. Cardiology Department, Interbalkan European Medical Center, Thessaloniki, Greece; 41. Hopital de la Timone, Department of Cardiology, Marseille, France; 42. Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic and Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Medical Faculty of Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; 43. Hadassah Medical Center, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; 44. Clinique Pasteur, Groupe Cardiovasculaire Interventionnel, Toulouse, France; 45. Cardiovascular Imaging Unit, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; 46. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West-German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany; 47. Cardiology Department, Universite de Rennes-1, CHU de Rennes, Rennes, France; 48. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; 49. UZ Brussel, Department of Cardiology, Jette, Belgium; 50. Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Freiburg Bad Krozingen, Bad Krozingen, Germany and Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; 51. Centre for Cardiovascular Medicine and Devices, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London and Barts Heart Centre, London, United Kingdom; 52. Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; 53. Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland; 54. Maria Cecilia Hospital, GVM Care & Research, Cotignola, Italy

Abstract

The percutaneous treatment of structural, valvular, and non-valvular heart disease (SHD) is rapidly evolving. The Core Curriculum (CC) proposed by the EAPCI describes the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that define competency levels required by newly trained SHD interventional cardiologists (IC) and provides guidance for training centres. SHD ICs are cardiologists who have received complete interventional cardiology training. They are multidisciplinary team specialists who manage adult SHD patients from diagnosis to follow-up and perform percutaneous procedures in this area. They are competent in interpreting advanced imaging techniques and master planning software. The SHD ICs are expected to be proficient in the aortic, mitral, and tricuspid areas. They may have selective skills in either the aortic area or mitral/tricuspid areas. In this case, they must still have common transversal competencies in the aortic, mitral, and tricuspid areas. Additional SHD domain competencies are optional. Completing dedicated SHD training, aiming for full aortic, mitral, and tricuspid competencies, requires at least 18 months. For full training in the aortic area, with basic competencies in mitral/tricuspid areas, the training can be reduced to 1 year. The same is true for training in the mitral/tricuspid area, with competencies in the aortic area. The SHD IC CC promotes excellence and homogeneous training across Europe and is the cornerstone of future certifications and patient protection. It may be a reference for future CC for national associations and other SHD specialities, including imaging and cardiac surgery.

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