B.Sc Cardiac Technology
Undergraduate (B.Sc) programme · 3 years + 1 year internship · Department of Cardiac Technology
Overview
About the programme
This is an undergraduate specialised course in allied health science: a three-year full-time course with one year of compulsory rotatory internship.
It teaches students:
- to assist physicians during invasive cardiovascular testing in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac (heart) and peripheral (blood vessel) conditions,
- to prepare patients for open heart surgery and the implanting of pacemakers,
- to monitor patients during these procedures,
- to perform cardiac stress tests and electrocardiograms, and
- to use and maintain medical equipment such as ultrasound.
Curriculum
What you will study
First year
- Applied anatomy, physiology and biochemistry related to cardiac technology
- Pharmacology related to cardiac technology
- Pathology, microbiology, clinical features and treatment of diseases pertinent to cardiac technology
- Medical electronics, biophysics and computer usage relevant to cardiac technology
- Basic electrocardiography
Second year
- Advanced electrocardiography
- Treadmill exercise stress testing and 24-hour ambulatory ECG recording
- Echocardiography
Third year
- Cardiac catheterisation laboratory - basics
- Cardiac catheterisation laboratory - advanced
Non-examination subjects (all years)
- English
- Computer
Clinical internship
One year of compulsory rotatory internship after the three academic years.
Career opportunities
- Cardiac catheterisation laboratory technologist
- ECG and stress test (TMT) technician
- Echocardiography technician
- Holter monitoring
- Cardiac care units of hospitals
Higher studies
- M.Sc in cardiac technology / allied subjects
- Research
