Educating our members is central to SCAI's mission. With 65 hours of content, this robust online course is designed to meet the educational needs of interventional cardiology Fellows-in-Training and Interventional Cardiology Program Directors. Access is provided free to all members of SCAI.

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For Fellows-in-Training
This course will provide a solid foundation and the latest science and practice of Interventional Cardiology. Our goal is a comprehensive online learning opportunity that is aligned to ACGME/ABIM standards and thus the most relevant material for board exam preparation. This didactic material should serve as reinforcement to the hands-on education and guidance of fellowship training.

For Program Directors
SCAI aims to aid Program Directors through structured resources that provide guidance and direction to your Fellows-in-Training.

See below for a detailed description of the content available in this course.

Cath Lab Essentials

• Case Reviews With the Experts: What Would You Do?
• Cath Lab Disasters: What to Do When Cases Go Bad
• Contemporary Intravenous Antiplatelet Strategies in PCI
• Gearing Up: Tools, Strategies, and Drugs for Optimal Intervention
• Interventional Jeopardy
• It is 3 AM and You Are on Call
• Managing STEMI as a New Attending
• Modern PCI: Identify. Treat. Repeat.
• My Worst Complication and Best Save of the Year
• SHOCK

Calcium Management

• Complex Lesions: How to Treat Left Main, Multivessel, Bifurcation, and CTOs
• Coronary Orbital Atherectomy Didactic and Hands-On Training
• Techniques to Deal With Challenging Lesions
• The Management of Calcium with IVL – Consistent Results in Coronary and Peripheral Applications

Imaging

• Calcium Scoring With IVUS – Do Not Forget the VASCULAR Portion of Cardiovascular Disease
• FFRangio – The New Standard in Coronary Physiology Assessment
• Physiology: Standing Out From the Crowd
• The Current State of Iodinated Contrast Media

Peripheral Vascular

• Bloodless Thrombectomy for VTE: Current Landscape and Future Directions
• Coronary and Peripheral Thrombus Management – What's Your Algorithm for Removal?
• Vascular and Endovascular Medicine: Part 1
• Vascular and Endovascular Medicine: Part 2

Professional Development

• Meet the Mentor: Faculty Roundtable Meet & Greet
• SCAI Women in Innovations (WIN) Career Development Dessert Reception

Structural

• Lifetime Management – Taking TAVR Further
• Structural Heart Disease and Intervention: Valve Therapies
• Structural Heart Interventions: More Than Just Valves

Vascular Access

• Femoral Access Site Management
• Large Bore Access: Critical Skills for Interventional Fellows
• Radial and Femoral Tools and Techniques for Complex Cases: From Basics to Bailout

• Crisis Management: Becoming a Leader of the Cath Lab Team
• Featured Abstract Stage: Quality Improvement
• Navigating Transitions Over Your Career
• Optimizing Cardiac Cath Lab Team Operations: A How-to Guide
• Advocacy Impacts the Lives of our Patients and our Careers: Engagement is Essential to our Future!
• How to Run a Financially Sound and Sustainable Cath Lab: From Profitability to Waste and Supply Chain
• Cardiac Artificial Intelligence Software and the Cath Lab: The Future Is Here!
• Cardiac Cath Lab Economics: If you Live in this House You Need to Comprehend the Money

• PCI Decisions in Uniquely Challenging Lesions
• Complications—How to Manage (or Avoid) Potential Disaster
• Adjunctive Lesion Assessments and Clinical Decision Making—Intracoronary Imaging and Coronary Physiology 
• Complex Decision-Making in STEMI—Thrombus, Non-Culprit Lesions, Shock, and More 

• Defining Quality in the Cath Lab
• Operator and Staff Requirements
• Procedural Quality
• Facility and Environmental Issues
• Care Coordination with Referring Physicians

• Complex Iliac
• Complex Superficial Femoral Artery
• No Stent Zones
• Intravascular Imaging
• Atherectomy
• Alternate Access
• Emerging Below Knee Technologies
• Complication Management

• Chapter 1 covers routine (<8Fr) access and closure procedures
• Chapter 2 covers large bore (>8Fr) access and closure procedures
• Chapter 3 reviews access site complications and management