Cases with no patient in them yet
The Early Detection modules are unusual in that the subject is not ill. A forty-two-year-old with a family history and normal lipids asks whether they should have a calcium score. Learners must decide, and the module makes them justify both the test and what they would do with either result before revealing anything.
These 333 pages are the set text.
Deliberately separate from the prevention track
That track manages identified risk factors in people already flagged as at risk. This block is a step earlier — detecting disease that exists but is silent. Learners commonly take both and report the questions feel genuinely different, which they are.
The detection modules
Coronary calcium scoring, including what a zero score means and its warranty period. CT coronary angiography used as a risk tool rather than for symptoms. Carotid intima-media thickness and why enthusiasm for it faded. Biomarkers including Lp(a) and high-sensitivity CRP. Why ten-year risk calculators mislead in young patients whose lifetime risk is high.
The module that resists an answer
Whether detection should change management. The block does not resolve it, because the evidence does not — screening well people has costs, false positives generate cascades, and treating on imaging alone is not uniformly supported. Learners find the lack of resolution frustrating and it is the honest position.
Enrolment
Cardiologists, general and family physicians, and preventive health practitioners.
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