Private Group Lectures
Improve diagnostic accuracy and strengthen ECG interpretation skills within your medical group through expert-led live lectures, private tutoring, and internationally recognized advanced training programs.
ECG Education & Training for Medical Groups
Medical teams often have one or more members who rely heavily on automated ECG machine interpretations, which can lead to misdiagnoses and missed critical conditions such as myocardial infarctions or arrhythmias (see the ECG below). Strengthening ECG interpretation skills across your team can significantly improve diagnostic accuracy and patient outcomes.
Medicus of Houston provides comprehensive ECG education designed specifically for medical groups, physicians, and advanced practice providers. Our training solutions are flexible and can easily integrate into your existing meetings or educational programs.
We offer live online private lectures that can serve as the educational portion of your virtual or in-house meetings. These sessions are available as 15-minute presentations, delivered live via Zoom, and can also be customized to match the specific learning needs of your team.
Our instructors are available for early morning sessions, evening dinner meetings, and fully virtual events. During live sessions, participants can interact directly with the instructor, ask questions, and discuss real-world ECG interpretation challenges.
For organizations with unpredictable schedules, we also provide short pre-recorded presentations that can be shared during meetings when live sessions are not possible. In some lectures, participants will receive durable learning materials, including ECG examples and notes, sent in advance for distribution to attendees.
The rather remarkable FIVE mistakes (actually, the ENTIRE interpretation) are:
1. That is NOT sinus rhythm – it’s atrial fibrillation.
2. There can be no sinus arrhythmia if there is no sinus rhythm.
3. There can be no discernible 1st degree AV block during atrial fibrillation.
4. No deflection can be “premature” during atrial fibrillation. (Premature compared to WHAT?)
5. And NO! It is otherwise NOT a normal ECG!
If individual members of your team need additional help, Medicus of Houston also offers several targeted training options:
Private Online Tutoring Sessions
One-on-one instruction focused on any ECG topic or a customized combination of topics to strengthen interpretation skills.
The Masterclass in Advanced Electrocardiography
This internationally recognized course is limited to 20 participants, allowing for more flexibility, personalized instruction, and deeper learning. Ischemia, infarctions, blocks and dysrhythmias are taught from an advanced perspective. This is NOT a rehash of basic material (FYI: we do NOT consider a classic bundle branch block, Mobitz I AV block or a sinus tachycardia to be advanced topics).
The Masterclass in Advanced Dysrhythmias
This course goes far, far beyond the basic dysrhythmias and focuses primarily on complex dysrhythmias – those dysrhythmias that are usually a combination of pathological rhythms (exit blocks complicated by ectopic pacemaker resets, intermittent and modulated parasystole, concealed transseptal conduction and “peeling back” refractoriness to name a few).
Many healthcare providers unknowingly overestimate their ECG interpretation abilities because they rely too heavily on machine interpretations. Unfortunately, automated readings can frequently produce incorrect conclusions.
In fact, there are still cases today where abnormal ECGs are incorrectly labeled as normal because the physician relied solely on the automated interpretation rather than reviewing the ECG directly.
Some of our most popular topics have been:
What Is Occlusion Myocardial Infarction (OMI) and How Does It Differ From STEMI?
What’s the Difference Between AV Dissociation and Third Degree AV Block?
Spotting Lead Wire Interchanges Quickly
The Top Five (or Ten) ECG Mistakes That You CAN Avoid!
My Patient Had a Narrow-Complex SVT and It Responded to Adenosine. No Further Diagnosis Needed. What…?
Improving ECG interpretation skills is essential to prevent missed diagnoses (with their medicolegal consequences) and ensure the highest standard of patient care.
If you are interested in improving ECG interpretation within your medical group, feel free to reach out directly.
Jerry W. Jones, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Email: jwjmd@medicusofhouston.com
(Monday – Friday, 9 AM – 5 PM, Central US Time)