Cardiac Medical Device Corporate Training Solutions

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Build your Customized Online, Onsite,
or Hybrid Training Solution

Build your solution with proficiency assessments, self-paced elearning, traditional classroom instruction and hands-on simulation in our state-of-the-art facility and online faculty-led sessions. The PrepMD Cath Lab, Programmer Bar, and EP Control Room ensures new hires and existing staff will improve proficiency levels on cardiac diseases, devices, therapies and fundamentals of cardiac rhythm management, electrophysiology, structural heart, and interventional cardiology.

As an approved training site for many cardiac medical device manufacturers and major medical centers, PrepMD Corporate and Clinical Training Solutions help raise the level of service and quality of patient care. Utilize onsite, online, and hybrid training solutions to initiate or augment existing training programs. PrepMD’s expert training team has over 250 years of combined healthcare and medical device industry experience, many with CCDS and CEPS certifications.

Design Your Cardiac Device Corporate Training Solution

Build your training solution: PrepMD Corporate Training Solutions are robust and interactive, with online, onsite, and hybrid delivery options. Select from didactic sessions to fit corporate and clinical staff needs and goals. Onsite and online competency assessment testing is available to help direct training efforts, define needs, or monitor progress after completing their training. Establish a schedule for periodic training assessments to monitor employee progress through the curriculum. Supplement onsite training with online course work before (preparatory), during (reinforcement), and after (sustainment).

You can rely on PrepMD:  Trust that the PrepMD expert training team and award-winning state-of-the-art facility will provide the training your team needs. Learn how the mock Cath lab, EP Control Room, and Programmer Bar can provide optimal hands-on learning and testing for direct hires, tenured staff, and allied health professionals. Our training team has over 250 years of combined healthcare and medical device industry experience, with CCDS and CEPS certifications.

Skill Assessment – pre or post training

  • Cardiovascular Anatomy and Physiology
  • Assess non-paced ECG analysis
  • Identify the indications for pacemaker implantation
  • Competency in the use of the PSA
  • Assess appropriate single-chamber pacemaker function from the surface ECG
  • Describe the timing cycles of a dual-chamber pacemaker
  • Assess capture and sensing in a dual-chamber pacemaker utilizing the surface ECG and the IEGM
  • Manage the intra-operative testing during an ICD implantation (including DFT Testing)
  • Troubleshoot dual-chamber function (Upper Rate Behavior, PMT and Crosstalk)
  • Troubleshoot dual-chamber pacemaker malfunctions
  • Principles of Sensing, Detection and Therapy in an ICD
  • ICD programming and troubleshooting

Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Modules:

  • The IBHRE Examinees Overview of Core Concepts & Fundamentals
  • Test your Practical Understanding of Device Therapy
  • Cardiovascular Foundations for Understanding Device Therapy
  • Fundamentals of ECGs and Rhythm Analysis
  • Fundamentals of Cardiac Pacing 101 – Terms and Concepts
  • Fundamentals of Cardiac Pacing 102 – Device Operations
  • Clinical Foundations for ICD Therapies
  • Intermediate Level Cardiac Pacing Technologies
  • Understanding the Pacemaker Implant
  • ICD Technology – Sensing and Detection
  • Cardiac Rhythm Management for the Heart Failure Patient
  • Non Rhythm Related Cardiovascular Disease

Electrophysiology EP Modules:

  • Basic Electrophysiology of the Heart
  • Cardiac Electrical, Mechanical and Hemodynamic Function
  • Fundamental of the ECG and Basic Arrhythmia Recognition and Management
  • Hands on Anatomy Lab EP Focused Heart Dissection
  • Conduction System Abnormalities
  • Mechanisms of Tachycardia
  • Fundamentals of the Diagnostic EP Study
  • Supraventricular Tachycardias: Diseases, Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Basics Cardiac Medications
  • Rhythm Recognition and EGM Practical Exercises
  • 12 Lead ECGS and Arrhythmia Localization
  • EGM Signal Acquisition and Filtering
  • Introduction to Cardiac Mapping
  • Fundamentals of Electroanatomic Mapping Systems
  • Map Recognition Practical Exercises
  • Biophysics of Ablation
  • Pathophysiology of AF Disease, Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Ventricular Tachycardia; Disease, Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Advanced Mapping Techniques
  • Differential Pacing

Structural Heart Modules: 

  • Electrical, Mechanical and Hemodynamic Function of the Heart
  • Introduction to Congenital and Acquired Structural Diseases
  • Pathophysiology of Aortic Valve Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Pathophysiology of Mitral Valve Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Left Atrial Appendage Management
  • Hands on Anatomy Lab SH Focused Heart Dissection
  • TEE, TTE, CT for the Structural Heart Patient
  • PrepLab Hands on Simulation Sessions
  • Mechanical Circulatory Support for the IC Patient
  • Access Techniques and Closure Devices for Large Bore Access

Interventional Cardiology Modules:

  • Cardiac Electrical, Mechanical and Hemodynamic Function
  • Introduction to Coronary Artery Disease, DIagnosis and Management
  • Acute Coronary Syndrome
  • Role of the 12 LEad ECG in Coronary Diagnosis
  • Hands on Anatomy Lab IC Focused Heart Dissection
  • Understanding Coronary Anatomy
  • The Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization
  • Understanding Cardiac Imaging for the Coronary Arteries
  • Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
  • Complex High Risk Indicated Patents
  • Hemodynamic Monitoring for the Cardiac PAtient
  • Advanced Hemodynamics
  • Mechanical Circulatory Support for the IC Patient
  • Cardiogenic Shock
  • Cardiac Medications
  • PrepLab Hands on Simulation Sessions

Sales training modules for clinicals:

  • Sales Call Planning
  • Stages of the Sales Process
  • Listening and Questioning in the Sales Call
  • Overcoming Objections
  • Customer Engagement Techniques
  • Customized Roll Play Sessions
  • Selling Styles

Client and Training Success Stories

Global Medical Device Company New Product Launch
Clinical Sales Team Training

Training Need: Onsite Training for Clinical Team transitioning to Clinical Sales Team

Training Solution: This client was getting ready to transition to commercial launch of a new product. They came to PrepMD to have us customize a training solution for their clinical team who would be transitioning over to additional sales responsibilities. This onsite training focused on sales in the cardiac clinical space, using selling skills assessments, sales training, and role playing. The training delivery was launched for their entire regional team as they prepared to go to market with this new product launch. The customized training solution is now the standard on-boarding sales training requirement for all new sales professionals.

U.S. Government Agency
Advanced Clinical Training for Tenured Technical Staff

Training Need: Hybrid Online and Onsite Cardiac Clinical Foundation Training for Quality Control Engineers

Training Solution: This agency had technically trained quality control engineers who needed a cardiac clinical foundation in order to communicate effectively with clinicians and scientists. PrepMD conducted online individual assessments to determine needs across the agency. A combination of classroom and lab training was designed and delivered on cardiac rhythm management, structural heart and interventional cardiology and related cardiac therapies. Follow-up evaluation and assessment was included to ensure comprehension and proficiency, and to identify additional training needs.

Global Medical Technologies Company
EP Fundamentals to Baseline New Hires

Training Need: EP Fundamentals Online Learning for New Hires and Internal Teams

Training Solution: Through consultation, we helped the client identify exactly what their challenges were and what they needed from a training solution and then designed a customized online solution for them. The training became the standard for every new hire at the company. The client realized how successful the online offering was that made it available to their own customers through their website as a link and a resource to customers. This allowed them to create a customer database of who was more interested in their product and their product training.

Cardiovascular Therapies Startup Product Launch
Cath Lab Essentials for New Hires

Training Need: Custom-Design Online Learning Solution for New Hires

Training Solution: This startup company had an existing presence in another medical specialty but was very busy transitioning to a new indication for their existing technologies into the cardiac space. They did not have the cardiac subject matter expertise they knew would be crucial for successful product launch and came to PrepMD to build their company branded training materials in an all-online format. The training program was delivered to all internal and field sales personnel and was so well-received that it became their standard required onboarding training for all newly hired employees.

Global Medical Device Company
Cath Lab 101 for New Salespeople

Training Need: Onsite Training Cardiac Foundational Knowledge

Training Solution: PrepMD designed a cath lab training program with a custom delivery schedule to precede their in-house product training. This allowed employees to more quickly and successfully progress through internal training requirements. The company was so satisfied with the training and employee retention results, this became their baseline training for all new sales hires, which was also implemented across divisions.

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