Advanced cardiology curriculum for APPs practicing in clinic and hospital settings. Deep clinical reasoning, diagnostic selection, management, medication titration, and escalation.
5 live · 45 modules outlined
This is the deepest track. It is built to approach the clinical reasoning of a cardiology fellow’s curriculum, adapted to APP scope. Work through the levels in order — each one assumes the one before it.
Scope Note
This curriculum supports advanced cardiology APP practice in clinic and hospital settings. It emphasizes clinical reasoning, diagnostic selection, guideline-based management, medication titration, monitoring, escalation, and patient education. It does not train procedural performance or independent raw imaging interpretation.
How the work fits together before you dive into disease.
The mental model that turns a cardiology complaint into a safe next step: stability first, can’t-miss diagnoses, focused data, and the right test for the question.
How a cardiology clinic day actually flows — and where the APP adds value at each step, from chart prep to closing the loop on results.
How to run an inpatient cardiology consult — answer the actual question asked, round safely, communicate clearly, and know what goes to the attending.
A practical model for the highest-stakes APP skill: recognizing what can’t wait, escalating cleanly with SBAR, and never letting an unstable patient sit.
Write an assessment and plan that shows your clinical reasoning — problem-based, decision-driven, and defensible — without note bloat.
The reusable skills every cardiology encounter draws on.
Outline published · lessons in development
A focused, can’t-miss-oriented approach to the cardiac history.
The high-yield exam and vitals that change cardiology decisions.
Reading rhythm, ischemia, and conduction at the level an APP needs.
Matching the cardiac test to the clinical question.
Understanding the echo report without reading raw images.
Troponin, BNP, BMP, CBC, lipids, and TSH — interpreted in context.
The major drug classes, what they do, and what they can do to a patient.
Symptom-based reasoning for the complaints you see most.
Outline published · lessons in development
A structured differential and workup for the chest-pain patient.
Sorting cardiac from non-cardiac dyspnea and acting safely.
From benign ectopy to dangerous arrhythmia — and the right monitor.
Risk-stratifying syncope and recognizing high-risk features.
Heart failure, venous, and arterial causes of leg complaints.
A safe approach to the unexpected EKG finding.
Risk assessment and clearance logic for non-cardiac surgery.
Guideline-based evaluation and management of the bread-and-butter diagnoses.
Outline published · lessons in development
Classification, drug selection, and resistant/secondary HTN.
Risk stratification, statin therapy, and add-on agents.
Diagnosis, medical therapy, and when to refer for revascularization.
HFrEF/HFpEF, GDMT, and decompensation recognition.
Rate vs rhythm, anticoagulation, and cardioversion logic.
Recognizing and monitoring the common valve lesions.
Claudication, CLTI, carotid disease, and medical targets.
CEAP, compression, and the ablation pathway.
Recognizing PH and knowing when to refer.
Inpatient reasoning, disposition, and the decisions that come with acuity.
Outline published · lessons in development
Working up the admitted chest-pain patient and trending troponin.
Distinguishing the troponin elevations that change management.
Congestion vs perfusion, diuresis, and disposition.
Rate control, stability, and anticoagulation in the acute setting.
Recognizing dangerous conduction disease and when to pace.
The inpatient evaluation of high-risk syncope.
Answering the surgical team’s real question.
Peri-procedural anticoagulation decisions.
Safe transitions and the follow-up that prevents bouncebacks.
Understanding procedures, reports, and complications — for follow-up and escalation, not performance.
Outline published · lessons in development
The coronary tree and what happens in the lab.
Interpreting the cath report as an APP.
Balloons, stents, atherectomy, IVUS, OCT, and iFR/FFR — concepts only.
Endovascular peripheral procedures and follow-up.
PPM, ICD, CRT, and loop recorder — recognition and triage.
What these procedures do and who they are for.
Recognizing shock and the role of support.
Reading hemodynamics at a conceptual level.