The Master in Stress-Related, Transesophageal, and Advanced Echocardiography and Integrated Multimodality Cardiac Imaging prepares echocardiography professionals in the following areas:
- Physical and pharmacological stress-related echocardiography;
- Transesophageal echocardiography;
- 3D echocardiography;
- Speckle-tracking echocardiography;
- Nonlinear contrast ultrasound imaging;
- Coronary flow reserve analysis;
- Intracardiac vortex analysis;
- Echocardiography integrated with other cardiac imaging techniques.
Purpose of this course is the acquisition of the latest knowledge on stress-related and transesophageal echocardiography, and of advanced echocardiography techniques, including integrated echocardiographic imaging.
The Master in Stress-Related, Transesophageal, and Advanced Echocardiography and Integrated Multimodality Cardiac Imaging provides in-depth knowledge on the following aspects: basic principles, indications and contraindications, execution methods, exam result interpretation, reporting methods, clinical applications, limits and advantages.
Information provided through echocardiography will be compared to other imaging techniques (computed tomography, MRI), also by analysing the application fields of integrated imaging.
The Master in Stress-Related, Transesophageal, and Advanced Echocardiography and Integrated Multimodality Cardiac Imaging is an opportunity to elevate basic echocardiography professional profiles. The course is addressed to doctors with basic cardiology and echocardiography skills.
Career opportunities can be found in cardiology clinics, and in-patient, intensive care or surgery-related cardiology centres.
The Master in Stress-Related, Transesophageal, and Advanced Echocardiography and Integrated Multimodality Cardiac Imaging encompasses four training areas:
- Stress-related echocardiography
- Indications and contraindications
- Type of stress and exam protocols
- Stress-related echocardiography lab
- Diagnostic appropriateness
- Normal exams
- Eco-stress and ischemia, liveliness, prognosis, contractile flow reserve, diastolic function, valvular diseases
- Transesophageal echocardiography
- Indications and contraindications
- Exam protocols
- Transesophageal echocardiography lab
- Diagnostic appropriateness
- Normal exams
- Transesophageal echocardiography in valvular diseases, in the structural field, in congenital heart defects, in intensive care, in the search for embolic and endocarditis sources
- Advanced echocardiography
- Techniques
- Applications
- Diagnostic appropriateness
- 3D echocardiography, speckle-tracking, nonlinear contrast ultrasound imaging, coronary flow reserve and intracardiac vortex analysis
- Integrated echocardiography
- Correlation between echocardiography and MRI, computed tomography and nuclear cardiology for the main heart diseases
- Clinical integration between different diagnostic techniques
- Fusion imaging
The general ranking of merit for the academic year 2026/2027 will be published on the Italian page of this Master according to the timing provided in the Call.
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The Master’s Degree in Stress Echocardiography, Transesophageal Echocardiography, Advanced Echocardiography, and Integrated Multimodality Cardiac Imaging takes place over the course of one year at the Cardiology Clinic of the University Hospital of Padua.
Attendance is mandatory, with a minimum requirement of 70% of the total program.
Most lectures are delivered by faculty members from the University Hospital of Padua.
The program includes:
• Synchronous online lectures to encourage interaction between students and instructors
• Asynchronous online lectures for in-depth study of the content
• In-person sessions with practical exercises (group simulations, discussion of clinical cases)
• A training period involving attendance in the cardiology echocardiography laboratories for clinical observation activities (no clinical care duties are предусмотрed during the internship period)
Part of the program is dedicated to the development of an individual project work supervised by a Master’s faculty member. The final assessment consists of the preparation and presentation of this project.
Online lectures are scheduled twice a week, each lasting approximately one hour in the afternoon. They will be recorded and uploaded to a platform for later access.
There are two practical training sessions. The internship period lasts two weeks.
Attendance at the Clinica Cardiologica echocardiography clinics and haemodynamic labs to observe structural interventions are scheduled also based on the number of attendees. Once the enrolment phase is closed, attendees will be contacted to define the schedule.
Yes, there will be a final oral exam, where the individual Project Work will be assessed.
No, there will only be clinical observation activities.