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Fifteen dogs, including normal dogs and dogs with stable congenital or acquired cardiac disease, were used as study subjects during the laboratory session.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Interventions<\/jats:title>A 6\u2010hour curriculum on focused echocardiography was developed that included didactic lectures, clinical cases, and hands\u2010on echocardiography.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Measurements and Main Results<\/jats:title>Pre\u2010 and postcourse written examinations were administered to participants. House officers attended didactic lectures that were subsequently followed by a hands\u2010on laboratory session and practical examination, which involved performing transthoracic echocardiography on dogs with and without cardiovascular disease. Twenty\u2010one house officers completed the focused echocardiography training course. Written examination scores were 57 \u00b1 12% before and 75 \u00b1 10% after training (P<\/jats:italic> < 0.001). Following the course, 97% of participants in the practical examination were able to obtain the correct right parasternal short\u2010 or long\u2010axis view. Posttraining, most participants correctly identified pleural effusion (90%) and pericardial effusion (95%) and discriminated normal atrial size from atrial enlargement (86%). However, successful identification of a cardiac mass, volume status, and ability to recognize a poor quality study as nondiagnostic remained relatively low. Most trainees responded that the length of hands\u2010on laboratory training was too abbreviated and that the course should be > 6 hours.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusion<\/jats:title>A focused echocardiography training course improved knowledge and yielded acceptable proficiency in some echocardiographic findings commonly identified in the emergency room. 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