HFA Exam Preparatory Course
This is a two days online course which will be held on the 9th and 16th of October from 1pm to 7pm.
Learning objectives
After attending the course, participants will be able to:
- Make the diagnosis of heart failure
- Treat heart failure with medical and device therapy
- Manage complex heart failure cases
- Set up a multi-disciplinary heart failure team
- Successfully pass the HFA Certification Exam
Needs Assessments
Preparation of the HFA certification examination.
The elaboration of this course and its content is based on surveying participants of previous HFA exams: 50% did not know how to prepare for the exam and 64% judged the exam too difficult. In addition, as new HF clinical trials have been recently published, the HFA needs to provide education tools for HF specialists.
Registration Fees (VAT excluded):
- HFA Silver, Gold Members and HFA Fellows: €100
- HFA Associates and non-HFA members: €200
- Industry representatives: €400
Sessions
Welcome, opening remarks
Speaker(s):
Session I: Epidemiology and Diagnosis of chronic heart failure
Speaker(s): Stefan Stoerk (Wuerzburg, DE), Arantxa Gonzalez Miqueo (Pamplona, Navarra, ES), Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci (Harefield, Uxbridge, GB), Maria Generosa Crespo-Leiro (A Coruna, ES)
Session II: Clinical cases - Acute Heart Failure
Speaker(s): Jozine Ter Maaten (Groningen, NL), Djawid Hashemi (Berlin, DE)
Session III: Management and Clinical Trials
Speaker(s): Lars Kober (Copenhagen, DK), Wilfried Mullens (Genk, BE), Maja Cikes (Zagreb, HR), Gianluigi Savarese (Stockholm, SE)
Exam Mock Test 1
Speaker(s): Marianna Adamo (Brescia, IT)
