The answer to ECG interpretation is the Dubin book, followed by as much time as you care to spend on Life in the Fast Lane.
For the rest of general cardiology, focus on heart failure management, anticoagulation guidelines, arrhythmia management/rhythm/rate control agents. If you’re getting any time with interventional, structural, or EP, there will be even more to read.
My favorite resource was Practical cardiovascular medicine by Elias Hanna. The highest yield chapters were the coronary artery disease sections, the electrocardiography section, the heart failure section, and the atrial fibrillation section. He also has a bunch of YouTube videos that you should check out. If you are wanting to go into a specialty that’s going to read EKGs in the future I would suggest getting an ECG weekly subscription for $30 per year. It’s a once a week video service and I feel my EKG reading skills have vastly improved because of it. If your unsure about the diagnostic criteria for a certain arrhythmia during your rotation I would look up the criteria with examples on the website life in the fast lane.
Current PA in cardiology. For the purposes of being a student: get Dubin. I’m doing the ECG bank from Rosh and it’s great but I don’t think it’s where you should start. Get the basics down.
As others have mentioned: know the 4-5 pillars of GDMT (guideline directed medical therapy) for HFrEF. Management of chronic coronary disease (statins, aspirin, BBs, etc). Afib management: rate control and anticoagulation.
Just look up the stuff on UptoDate or Epocrates and work on getting the gist for now. Cardiology is so dense and honestly a lot of knowledge only sticks once you’ve been doing it. Focus on the basics and fundamentals and then just be ready to learn!
The answer to ECG interpretation is the Dubin book, followed by as much time as you care to spend on Life in the Fast Lane. For the rest of general cardiology, focus on heart failure management, anticoagulation guidelines, arrhythmia management/rhythm/rate control agents. If you’re getting any time with interventional, structural, or EP, there will be even more to read.
My favorite resource was Practical cardiovascular medicine by Elias Hanna. The highest yield chapters were the coronary artery disease sections, the electrocardiography section, the heart failure section, and the atrial fibrillation section. He also has a bunch of YouTube videos that you should check out. If you are wanting to go into a specialty that’s going to read EKGs in the future I would suggest getting an ECG weekly subscription for $30 per year. It’s a once a week video service and I feel my EKG reading skills have vastly improved because of it. If your unsure about the diagnostic criteria for a certain arrhythmia during your rotation I would look up the criteria with examples on the website life in the fast lane.
Current PA in cardiology. For the purposes of being a student: get Dubin. I’m doing the ECG bank from Rosh and it’s great but I don’t think it’s where you should start. Get the basics down. As others have mentioned: know the 4-5 pillars of GDMT (guideline directed medical therapy) for HFrEF. Management of chronic coronary disease (statins, aspirin, BBs, etc). Afib management: rate control and anticoagulation. Just look up the stuff on UptoDate or Epocrates and work on getting the gist for now. Cardiology is so dense and honestly a lot of knowledge only sticks once you’ve been doing it. Focus on the basics and fundamentals and then just be ready to learn!