Orientation & Objectives

• CanMEDS Objectives
• Pediatric Cardiology Resident Responsibilities
• Rotation Evaluation
• Rotation Schedule

Resources/Useful Websites

• Clinic Dictation Format
• American Heart Association www.americanheart.org
• Congenital Heart Disease www.heartandstroke.ca
• Pediheart www.pediheart.org
• Sudden Arrythmia Death Syndromes Foundation www.sads.org
• Chest Pain in Children and Adolescents
• Constrictive Pericarditis
• EKG
• Evaluation of a child with cardiac disease
• Murmurs, syncope and chest pain
• Common Cardiac Conditions, Taking a History, Investigations and Management etc.

Books:

• Pediatric cardiology for practitioners - Myung K Park.
• How to read Pediatric ECG - Myung K Park, Warren G Guntheroth.
  
• Nelson textbook of Pediatrics.
• Fundamentals of Congenital heart disease- This book is available in the department. Resident can borrow during the rotation.

• Diagnosis of Congenital heart disease, heart murmurs and beyond- Available as a CD in the department. This can also be borrowed on a short term basis.

Articles:

• Infectious endocarditis updated guidelines- Pediatrics and child health: vol 14, no.3: March 2009. (http://www.cps.ca/English/statements/ID/InfectiveEndocarditis.htm)
• Chest pain in children/Adolescents-Pediatrics in review 2010;31;e1-e9.
• Heart failure in infants and children-Pediatrics in review 2010;31,4-12.
• Myocarditis in infants and children - Pediatrics and child health 2001; 6(8): 543-545
• Physical activity participation in youth with surgically corrected congenital heart disease-Pediatrics and child health 2009; 14(3):167-170
• Constrictive pericarditis-Uptodate 2011

Presentations