Distance & Online Learning Advanced Specialty Certificate 7860ascert
Pacemaker Technology Advanced Specialty Certificate is a post-diploma guided-learning/distance education program designed to fulfill the need for trained associated professionals skilled in a variety of cardiac device procedures. This program exposes the student to a range of cardiac patients and a variety of biomedical equipment found within a hospital or clinic environment.
The program offers the opportunity to gain a BCIT Advanced Specialty Certificate and allows students to begin preparing for national and international certification examinations.
BCIT has designed the program to provide for:
Taking a single course or multiple courses in sequence does not guarantee acceptance into the Pacemaker Technology Advanced Specialty Certificate program.
This unique, distance education/guided-learning program combines theory and clinical experience in hospitals and pacemaker clinics. The program emphasizes theoretical and clinical application of electrophysiology, cardiac pathology, cardiac pharmacology and cardiac physiology. In addition to the theoretical basis contained in the courses, the clinical practicum offers students the opportunity to practise the fundamentals required to perform the following:
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Cardiac Device Clinical Practicum Site Requirements
The practicum must be supervised by a physician and associated professional (AP) mentor with proven experience and competence in the area of cardiac device follow-up and implantation.
The clinical practicum will be a minimum of 4.5 – 6 months (625 – 900 hours) of fulltime supervised instruction. During the training, the trainee should perform (hands-on) patient assessments and device programming, including measurement and interpretation on a minimum of 40 patients per month (two per day) observed and reviewed by the supervising physician or designated AP.
Tertiary Care centre must provide:
Clinical assessment
Evaluation by written and oral assessment by the medical director or AP designate after the clinical period. The mentors (s) will provide a written assessment of the knowledge and skills of the trainee as well as certification of the number of procedures performed. Evaluation forms are included in the Preceptors Manual.
Students may choose specific areas of this program to add to their existing medical technology knowledge and skills, or the entire advanced specialty certificate program to assist in gaining employment in hospital pacemaker/ICD clinics.
Graduates are involved in the performance of vital cardiac device testing, and utilize a wide range of sophisticated medical equipment that is essential for providing the cardiologist with valuable diagnostic information. Pacemaker technology is a fast-paced medical specialty with opportunities throughout Canada and abroad.
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