Information by Specialty
Interventional Cardiology
Click the links below for full details about Certification and Maintenance of Certification requirements for this specialty.
Certification
Maintenance of Certification
Note: A valid certification in Cardiovascular Disease must be held in order to maintain certification in Interventional Cardiology.
- Procedural Requirements
- Interventional cardiologists must submit a Form Attesting Interventional Cardiology Practice, verifying their performance as primary operator, co-operator or supervisor of 150 percutaneous coronary interventional (PCI) cases in the two years prior to expiration of their certificate.
- If interventional cardiologists are unable to meet this requirement, they may provide a procedural log of 25 consecutive cases, including outcomes, in which they have served as primary operator.
- The documentation period for certificates expiring December 31, 2009 may start no earlier than July 1, 2007 and end no later than October 1, 2009.
- The form also requires verification of participation in a PCI quality improvement project.
- Visit Verification of Credentials for additional requirements.
- Exam
- Policies
- Recommended PIMs
- Communication – Subspecialists
- Communication with Referring Physicians
- Hospital-based Patient Care (Heart Failure, Myocardial Infarction)
- Hypertension
- Preventive Cardiology
- Self-Directed (using data from approved sources including the ACC’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry, or to report on group practice QI projects)
- ABIM Approved Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Programs - ACC D2B: Door-to-Balloon Time Initiative and ACP Closing the Gap - Cardiovascular Risk
- Medical Knowledge Modules
