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The SCAI formed a Structural Heart Disease Council to address the need for training program standards, credentialing, and a core curriculum for structural heart disease interventions.
The SCAI has established a Structural Heart Disease Council to standardize training, credentialing, and guidelines for structural heart interventions.
The field of structural heart disease (SHD) intervention has grown rapidly over the past several years. While training program content, standards, credentialing, and board examinations for percutaneous coronary intervention have matured and become well developed, no such structure exists in the field of SHD. Recognition of the need for training program standards and SHD curriculum stimulated the SCAI to form a SHD council, described in this report. In the accompanying two articles, we report the results of a survey of the status of SHD training in programs in the United States and define a core curriculum for structural intervention training.
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Feldman et al. (2010) conducted an editorial in Structural heart disease. The SCAI formed a Structural Heart Disease Council to address the need for training program standards, credentialing, and a core curriculum for structural heart disease interventions.
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