Program Overview

A Fellowship in Preventive Cardiology is an advanced medical training program focused on preventing, early detection, and managing cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and related risk factors. It aims to provide specialized expertise and skills to healthcare professionals, typically cardiologists or internal medicine specialists, to address the rising global burden of CVD effectively.

Course Curriculum

Population science and public health

• They will learn about new ways of calculating risk and the science behind cardiovascular function and how it connects to clinical practice.
• Design, implement and evaluate preventive interventions at the population level .

Primary prevention and risk factor management

• Manage individuals with multifactorial cardiovascular risk profiles
• Manage a patient with non-traditional cardiovascular risk factors

Secondary prevention and rehabilitation

• Manage a prevention and rehabilitation programme for a cardiovascular patient
• Manage a prevention and rehabilitation programme for a cardiovascular patient with significant comorbidities, frailty, and/or cardiac devices
• Manage a cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation programme for an oncology patient

Sports cardiology and exercise

• Manage pre-participation screening in a competitive athlete
• Manage the work-up of both a commoner as well as an athlete with suspected or known cardiovascular disease

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing

• Use cardiopulmonary exercise testing for diagnosis, risk stratification and exercise prescription