The Long Road
Rough total years of school and training after high school on the classic path.
About 14 (4 college + 4 med school + 3 residency + 3-4 fellowship)
The entrance exam for US and Canadian med schools
MCAT
Besides prescribing meds, cardiologists recommend these kinds of changes.
Lifestyle changes
The trainee rank where you're highly supervised and make less than an attending
Resident
The textbook "perfect" blood pressure reading.
120 over 80
The 3-year residency every future cardiologist completes right after med school
Internal medicine
An MCAT score of 515 or higher lands in this bracket
Elite (top few percent)
Unclogging arteries is the slide's example of this type of procedure.
Minorly invasive
Your title once you practice with high autonomy.
Attending
These "heartstrings" anchor the mitral and tricuspid valves so they don't blow backwards.
Chordae tendineae
The two doctor degrees med school can award
MD or DO (Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine)
The highest possible MCAT score. (DOUBLE POINTS)
528
Name two of the four required skills of a cardiologist.
Any two of: empathetic, communicative, good decision maker, knowledgeable
Practicing in more niche areas for more pay and more training is called this.
Sub-specialization
Cardiac output equals heart rate times this, the mL of blood pumped per beat. (write out equation on board)
Stroke volume
The accelerated 6-7 year program that fuses college and med school into one admission
BS/MD (Bachelor of Science / Doctor of Medicine)
Score below this number and the slide says you're "below average, need review" (hint: the answer is hiding in plain sight)
500 (yes, the answer is the tile value)
The first duty on the list: doing this, plus diagnosing, for patients with heart problems. (DOUBLE POINTS)
Evaluate
The national average salary range.
About $520-690k a year (which puts you in the top 0.1% of world income earners)
CO2 and acid make hemoglobin release its oxygen more easily, shifting the dissociation curve right. Name this effect.
The Bohr effect
The stage where you finally train in cardiology itself, plus how many years it takes. (DOUBLE POINTS)
Fellowship, 3-4 years
Name three of the six course areas required during the bachelor's degree.
Any three of: biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, physics, math
Name all four required skills.
Empathetic, communicative, good decision maker, knowledgeable
Two leadership titles from the slides, plus the example sub-specialty named.
Chief of Cardiology / Director / Administrator, and cardio-oncology
All or nothing: Name every chamber AND valve in order, from the vena cava to the aorta. (
Vena cava, right atrium, tricuspid, right ventricle, pulmonary valve, pulmonary arteries, lungs, pulmonary veins, left atrium, mitral, left ventricle, aortic valve, aorta.