Pulmonary Hypertension Core Competency Curriculum

Published 1 June 2018

Colin Church; Dana McGlothlin; Ioana Preston and Jean-Luc Vachiery

• Academy
• Core Competency Curriculum
• Education
• Pulmonary Vascular Disease (PAH & CTEPH)
• Standards & Guidelines

The purpose of this compendium is to provide a curriculum of core competencies in pulmonary hypertension.

Learning Objectives for the Introduction to Pulmonary Hypertension

1. To establish context and historic background for pulmonary hypertension.
2. To know how to define and classify pulmonary hypertension
3. To understand that pulmonary hypertension is an increasingly recognized condition of many causes that is uniformly associated with reduced survival
4. To learn the FDA approved indications for all of the currently available specific therapies for pulmonary arterial hypertension
5. To understand the risks of misclassification of PH and misuse of approved specific therapies for pulmonary arterial hypertension
6. Understand what physicians are treating PH patients
7. Recognize the need for training and core competencies in pulmonary hypertension