Echo workforce development in the Fiji Islands.

Echocardiography has a wide scope of practice and requires many years of training and experience for one to be proficient; however, contextualised echo may be taught for the purpose of screening for rheumatic heart disease (RHD). In recent experience in the Fiji Islands, an echo workforce training programme was implemented with the intention of teaching general sonographers and physicians echo for the purpose of screening RHD with very positive results. This course was completed over three separate one week courses in a clinical setting.