Joint EACVI HIT / EAPCI young survey / ESC CoT survey: Training and education for “multimodality imaging in structural interventions”: the rise of a new sub-specialty?

Over the past decade, there have been significant advances in interventions for structural and valvular heart disease, with multimodality imaging playing a prominent role in patient selection, pre-procedural screening, and/or procedural guidance.1,2 This growth in structural interventions emphasizes the need for cardiologists with expertise in advanced imaging. Therefore, the question is whether the current training and education are sufficient in terms of training for imaging in structural interventions, as well as whether the current demand for imaging cardiologists will evolve imaging in structural intervention into a specific sub-specialty in cardiology. The aim of this worldwide survey was to evaluate the needs of young cardiologists with respect to training and education in the field of imaging in interventional cardiology.