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FE is the only ARDMS specialty valid for both RDMS and RDCS. OB/GYN carries fetal heart views inside a wider exam; PE has no fetal content; CCI RCCS is separate. Format, fees, pass rates.

ARDMS Fetal Echo vs OB/GYN vs Pediatric Echo: Which Specialty Fits

FE is USD 300 plus USD 50 at an Indian or Gulf centre; SPI and FE together USD 675. The 2026 windows, the 30-day booking rule, the 60-day score wait, exam-day ID and what renewal asks after.

ARDMS Fetal Echo Fees and Timeline from India: USD, INR, Dates

The 5-year rule runs to 31 December of the fifth year and makes you retake whichever exam you passed first. Existing RDMS/RDCS holders face no clock. SPI vs FE compared, with a deadline calculator.

SPI and Fetal Echo: Which to Take First, and the ARDMS 5-Year Rule

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Seven ARDMS prerequisite routes, the physician route for MBBS doctors (500 studies over 6 months), foreign transcript evaluation, and the FE sponsor rule that stalls many applicants abroad.

ARDMS Fetal Echo Eligibility from India or the Gulf: Pathways Explained

The current FE outline is 7/25/34/34, not the older weights still quoted online. All task codes with practitioner importance scores, pacing for ~145 items, and an hours splitter.

ARDMS Fetal Echo Content Outline v24.1: Weights, Tasks, Study Plan

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Current facts on the ARDMS Fetal Echocardiography specialty exam: the open testing window, the 300 dollar fee, the 555 scaled pass score, hotspot items and the five-year SPI rule, each sourced

Alerts and Updates for ARDMS Fetal Echocardiography (FE)

ARDMS Fetal Echocardiography (FE)

American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography — Fetal Echocardiography specialty exam. 150 questions / 3 hours. Normal fetal cardiac anatomy, CHD recognition, imaging protocols.

A focused companion for your FE revision.

What went into these seven pages

Every fetal heart lesion and its telltale sign

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Seven-page revision kit for the ARDMS Fetal Echocardiography (FE) specialty exam, laid out by the content outline v24.1 domain weights: indications and risk factors, fetal cardiac anatomy, standard views, biometry and Doppler, fetal arrhythmias and heart block, congenital heart lesions with their identifying signs, genetic links and the common traps.

The four FE domains on seven pages, in the content-outline weights: the risk factors that bring a patient in, fetal cardiac anatomy, the views, measurements, Doppler and rhythm work, and the lesions with the sign that gives each away.

ARDMS Fetal Echocardiography (FE) — Revision Kit

The whole FE outline on seven pages

How to revise with it, page by page

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US, UK & international professional

Official 2024 syllabus extracted from https://www.ardms.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/FE-Examination-Content-Outline-V24.1-2.pdf

Domain 1: Gather pertinent medical history prior to exam (7%)

Review referral information and clarify pertinent data and indications for exam

Correlate known genetic syndromes and chromosomal anomalies with expected exam findings

Correlate history of maternal disease and drug exposure (e.g., maternal congenital heart disease, lupus, diabetes, indomethacin use)

Correlate extracardiac anomalies with expected exam findings (e.g., CHARGE, VACTERL syndromes)

History & Risk Factors

Domain 2: Anatomy and Physiology (25%)

Normal embryologic development (early chamber development, normal septal formation)

Fetal anatomic structures of abdomen/pelvis (IVC, ductus venosus, hepatic veins, stomach, bladder, spleen)

Fetal anatomic structures of chest/thorax (lungs, esophagus, trachea, thymus, diaphragm)

Anatomy of tissues composing the heart (pericardium, myocardium)

Normal cardiac chamber morphology and position

Septa (atrial, ventricular, arterial)

Normal atrioventricular and semilunar valve morphology

Systemic veins and arteries

Outflows

Pulmonary veins and arteries

Aortic arch

Ductus arteriosus

Ductus venosus

Umbilical vein and arteries

Fetal cardiac electrical conduction system (SA node, AV node)

Cardiac Anatomy

Domain 3: Perform the exam (34%)

Recognize and inform supervising physician of fetal critical findings (sustained bradycardia/tachycardia, fetal demise, hydrops, anhydramnios)

Monitor and adjust exam based on maternal clinical symptoms (supine hypotensive disorder, severe headache, unrelenting vomiting)

Clinical Care and Safety

Select transducer and console settings appropriate for the exam

Evaluate multiple gestations and associated cardiac complications (fetal position, number, TTTS)

Determine visceral-atrial situs (Cordes and other methods)

Evaluate and obtain standard cardiac views

Evaluate and obtain standard views of great vessels (branch pulmonary arteries, systemic veins, pulmonary veins, aortic and ductal arches)

Determine orientation and relationship of great vessels using standard cardiac views

Measurements of chamber size using 2D and M-mode

Measurements of cardiac valves and great vessels

Measurement of cardiothoracic (CT) ratio

Fetal biometric measurements (BPD, HC, AC, FL)

Exam Techniques & Measurements

Assess ventricular function

Assess AV and semilunar valve function using color and spectral Doppler (regurgitation, stenosis)

Assess fetal heart rate and rhythm using Doppler and M-mode

Spectral and color Doppler of MCA, umbilical arteries, umbilical vein, ductus venosus

Spectral and color Doppler of pulmonary and systemic veins

Spectral and color Doppler of pulmonary and systemic arteries

Assess mechanical PR intervals

Cardiac Function & Hemodynamics

Domain 4: Evaluate pathology and pathophysiology (34%)

Recognize signs of fetal distress (abnormal fluid collections, cardiomegaly, hemodynamics)

ARDMS Fetal Echocardiography (FE) — Discussion

ARDMS Fetal Echocardiography (FE) — Group Discussion