RT Book, Section A1 Wood, Matthew A1 Grichnik, Katherine A2 Mathew, Joseph P. A2 Swaminathan, Madhav A2 Ayoub, Chakib M. SR Print(0) ID 6921255 T1 Chapter 27. The TEE Board Exam T2 Clinical Manual and Review of Transesophageal Echocardiography, 2e YR 2010 FD 2010 PB The McGraw-Hill Companies PP New York, NY SN 978-0-07-163476-2 LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=6921255 RD 2024/03/28 AB The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) developed the initial formal exam in echocardiography over the years of 1993 to 1995. Following the pilot exam in 1995, the first exam was administered in 1996 and has been administered yearly since by ASEeXAM, Inc, an independent corporation designed to reduce any potential conflicts of interest between the professional society and the certifying entity. The ASEeXAM exam was designed to test all aspects of echocardiography and was intended primarily for cardiologists with additional training in echocardiography. Many in anesthesiology felt that this exam might result in their exclusion from using transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) perioperatively. Thus, in 1996 the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA) convened a task force for certification in perioperative transesophageal echocardiography.1 This committee was responsible for defining the appropriate fund of knowledge, for outlining the exam content based on this fund of knowledge, and for the development of fair multiple-choice questions.