Dear Colleagues,

It gives us a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 2018 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Middle East Conference in collaboration with the Saudi Heart Association to be held at LE MERIDIEN JEDDAH ,Saudi Arabia on 25-27 October, 2018.
This year’s conference brings together cardiovascular thought leaders from around the world to deliver you the highest quality education. The planning committee has created a comprehensive program that provides you with hands-on, locally relevant and highly practical education.
The two and one-half day program is designed to deliver you with state of the art lectures, poster presentations, interactive education and innovative discussions. As an attendee, you will have the opportunity to network with colleagues, ask questions to top experts in the field, stay at the cutting-edge of your profession and improve heart health for your patients!
Don’t miss out! This conference is one of the largest cardiology programs in the Middle East. We look forward to your presence in Jeddah!

On behalf of the conference committee.

                                                            

Mohammed Balghith, MB, CHB, FACC                    William Zoghbi, MD MACC  
Conference Co-Chair                                                            Conference Co-Chair
Riyadh, KSA                                                                                 Houston, TX, USA

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Register today for Leadership Development Program
The American College of Cardiology’s Leadership Development Program offers a half-day intensive live course that addresses various skills and knowledge in cardiovascular leadership. The program design provides you with a broad understanding of leadership styles and skills. This program addresses diverse perspectives on critical leadership challenges while also providing an awareness of concepts and techniques relevant to leading effectively within one’s own healthcare institution. The ACC often draws upon those who complete this program for future leadership roles within the College.
While strengthening leadership skills is a primary objective of the training course, the program also leverages having international leaders in the same room as an opportunity to exchange ideas and best practices. Lead by past president of the ACC, Dr. William Zoghbi, this interactive discussion allows attendees to provide special insight into their country’s healthcare and leadership challenges. The program serves as a platform for emerging leaders in the cardiovascular community to gain a deeper understanding of the varied challenges facing the College’s ever-growing international community. By connecting these emerging leaders, the program facilitates the building of professional relationships and creates new opportunities for collaboration that defy geographical distance.
This program will be held as a pre-conference opportunity on October 25, 2018 in the Tiahama Room located on the 2nd floor from 13:00-17:00.

PLEASE CONTACT MICHAEL PHILLIPS AT MPHILLIPS@ACC.ORG TO REGISTER FOR THIS DYNAMIC PROGRAM.

IN-TRAINING FELLOW EXAMINATION

Register today for the in-training fellow examination
Don’t miss the American College of Cardiology’s In-Training Exam at the conference. The exam features over 140 case-based questions and is a great opportunity for Fellows and practicing physicians to help understand the areas they need to focus on and where they are now, and provides a review of their progress over time.

The exam allows participants to:

  1. Identify areas of deficiency that require further learning
  2. Compare your performance with that of your peers in other training programs (in aggregate)
Register Now for In-Training Fellow Examination

Personalized Skills Center

The Personalized Skills Center offers a selection of modules to choose from to augment the learning that takes place in the traditional classroom.

Sharpen your core cardiology skills while learning at your leisure on iPads by engaging in Heart Songs or ECG Drill and Practice modules. This is a uniquely dynamic learning opportunity you won’t want to miss!

Heart Songs
Research reveals that cardiologists failed to identify more than half of basic murmurs and about 35 percent of advanced murmurs when challenged at a major medical meeting, but skills improved after a 90-minute training session.

Heart Songs provides you with a unique audiovisual experience specifically designed to refresh your cardiac auscultation skills. This clinical skills workshop features three “tracks”:

  1. Common heart murmurs
  2. More advanced sounds such as bicuspid aortic valve and mitral valve prolapse
  3. Expert murmurs such as combined aortic stenosis and regurgitation, or combined mitral stenosis and regurgitation

First, pick a track and assess your baseline skills by taking a confidential pretest. Then simply view videos featuring classic heart murmurs accompanied by phonocardiograms and color Doppler echoes. Each video includes hundreds of repetitions of its murmur, and studies show that simple repetition is all you need to master a new sound. Watch the videos as many times as necessary to see a significant improvement on your posttest scores (most people need to watch 2 to 4 times). Each Heart Songs track takes approximately 30 minutes to complete and sessions are self-paced.

Heart Songs makes sure you know what your stethoscope is telling you!

ECG Drill & Practice
Brush up on your ECG interpretation skills with ECG Drill & Practice. Using our online Learn-Practice-Perform model, you will be able to:

  • Learn about some the most common abnormal ECG findings as well as how to differentiate them from each other
  • Practice your interpretation skills in comparison to our experts with online flash cards
  • Practice/Performa simulated ECG test featuring the format and answer options similar to those of the ABIM’s certifying examination in cardiovascular disease and compare your answers to the experts

Brush up on a core cardiology skill with ECG Drill & Practice’s 100+ ECGs and expert insight!

Body Interact Simulation Lab
Take an experiential, game-based deep-dive into acute and chronic cases covering a broad range of clinical scenarios with the help of the Body Interact Simulation. This physician guided, learn-by-doing approach is highly customizable and suitable for early career and advanced clinicians alike. Cases presented will utilize guidelines and clinical evidence, and will provide you with immediate feedback via a visual dashboard and expert debriefing. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to test your skills and develop your clinical decision-making through real-time patient interaction and peer-to-peer discussion!