Abstract
The Working Group on Echocardiography (WGE) of the Romanian Society of Cardiology was formally founded in 1991. Activities related to echocardiography took place occasionally even before, as early as 1977, when a first symposium on echocardiography was held, while in 1982 a first course on cardiac ultrasound was organized in Bucharest. Romania is among the first European countries to have introduced an accreditation system in 1991 for individuals performing echocardiography and was therefore part of the initial taskforce set to help developing the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) certification system. Our WGE currently has more than 230 active members, most of them cardiologists, and is lead by a President and a Secretary, elected for a 3-year term. It is one of the most active WGs of our Society having also the largest number of members. One of the main purposes of our WGE has always been education. The regular annual meetings held in Bucharest since 1998 with international participation were very successful with many hundreds of participants attending every time to listen …
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