Comprehensive Echocardiography Board Review for NBE Exam Success
Prepare for certification and strengthen your clinical expertise with Mayo Clinic Echocardiography Board Review Course 2026, an intensive five-day echocardiography review program designed for physicians, sonographers, cardiology fellows, and cardiovascular imaging specialists. Developed and taught by Mayo Clinic faculty, this comprehensive course provides focused preparation for the National Board of Echocardiography (NBE) examination while delivering a practical review of contemporary echocardiographic practice.
The curriculum covers the full spectrum of echocardiography, including ultrasound physics, cardiac hemodynamics, valvular heart disease, ischemic heart disease, heart failure, cardiomyopathies, pericardial disease, congenital heart disease, stress echocardiography, strain imaging, and three-dimensional echocardiography. Each session emphasizes integration of echocardiographic findings into real-world clinical decision-making through expert-led lectures and board-style question discussions.
* Date of Original Release: May 2-6, 2026
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the completion of this course, you should be able to:
- State basic physical principles of cardiovascular ultrasound and instrumentation
- Correlate cardiac gross pathology with echocardiographic imaging findings
- Evaluate cardiac chamber size and left and right ventricular systolic and diastolic function
- Apply Doppler echocardiography in the assessment of cardiovascular hemodynamics
- Assess ischemic heart disease, heart failure, cardiomyopathies, and pericardial disease using echocardiography
- Determine the presence, etiology, and severity of native and prosthetic valvular heart disease
- Recognize congenital and aortic pathology using comprehensive echocardiographic evaluation
- Integrate newer echocardiographic techniques to enhance disease diagnosis and patient care
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MAYO CLINIC 2026 ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY BOARD REVIEW COURSE
