Evaluating Independent Echocardiography Interpretation Skills: A Novel Assessment Tool

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• ² Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ³ Division of Cardiology, the University of Toronto, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• ⁵ Montreal Heart Institute, University of Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
• ⁶ Division of Cardiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• ⁷ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Western University, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁸ University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁹ Schulich School of Business-York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ¹⁰ Echocardiography laboratory, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ¹¹ Division of Cardiology, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
• ¹² Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Electronic address: Parvathy.Nair@vch.ca.