Top 20 Online ECG Courses

ECG Course selection criteria

Inclusion criteria: The ECG course had to be

• in the English language
• readily accessible online, without requiring a formal application process
• found within the first 50 organic Google search results for “ECG/EKG course online” including geographical permutations for UK, US, Canada, New Zealand, or Australia
• a structured course providing students with a defined learning path, not just a series of references/examples and practice cases.
• provide a breadth of learning from basic to advanced applicable to the majority of health care providers such as nurses, paramedics, EMT, PA, and physicians

Notable exclusions:

• Some courses, e.g. Healio and ECGCourse, were excluded as they prevented access to residents of the UK and European Union.
• No free course met all of the inclusion criteria. However, the best of the FOAMed resources are listed at the end of the post.

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Top 10 Paid Resources

1. Medmastery

Medmastery gets the #1 spot for ECG for many reasons. For starters, they’ve got more than 450 reviews on Trustpilot (average rating 4.4/5 stars), are highly commended by the British Medical Association, and have won multiple awards for their teaching. They’ve also taught more than a quarter of a million clinicians, and are used by universities and other institutions all over the world. Their courses are available online, and are certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ through joint providership with ACCME-accredited organisations.

Lessons in their ECG courses are fast (averaging 6 minutes long), so they are compatible with a busy schedule! They’re also practical – there’s no unnecessary filler, and they focus on skills you’ll actually use in clinical practice.

Medmastery’s ECG Mastery Program provides 35 CME credits to walk you through everything from beginner to advanced topics:

• ECG Yellow Belt (course)
• ECG Blue Belt (course)
• ECG Black Belt (case-based workshop)

They also have courses and workshops on paediatric ECG (2 CME), Holter monitoring (2 CME), and stress testing (2 CME for the course and 2 CME for the workshop):

• Pediatric ECG 
• Holter Monitoring Essentials
• Exercise Stress ECG Essentials course
• Exercise Stress ECG workshop (20 cases)

Their Basic and Pro memberships will not only get you access to their ECG training, but also to all 140+ of their courses and workshops across 17+ specialities. (If you need CME, choose the Pro membership!) Last but not least, if you want to try before you buy, they offer a trial membership – it’s free – that gives you access to the first few lessons of each course (i.e. the first chapter) and several webinars.

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2. ECG Weekly

ECG Weekly is a case-based ECG educational tool aimed at providing regular, useful, contextual in-line learning in a video-based format. The educational team is led by the inimitable Amal Mattu, tenured professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine; Ali Farzad, an emergency physician who teaches at Baylor University Medical Center, as well as Texas A&M College of Medicine; and Rob Blankenship, a board-certified emergency physician who founded ECG Weekly.

The ECG Weekly Workouts are augmented by video explanations with key teaching points and references in an easily digestible bullet-point format, available for review.

Generally speaking, the Weekly Workout material assumes you already have a basic understanding of ECG. They also offer ECG STAT, a web app designed as a bedside guide to ECG interpretation that includes a review of the Basics and Fundamentals of ECG. If you need CME credits, you can get them with an ECG Weekly Max membership.

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3. ECG Academy

The ECG Academy is another great resource for anyone looking to up their ECG game with a growing list of medical/nursing and PA schools subscribed to the resource. They have over 155 reviews on Trustpilot, and are rated 4.9/5 stars.

ECG Academy was created by Dr Nicholas Tullo, a cardiac electrophysiologist with a passion for teaching. They have been reviewed previously on LITFL. The courses are designed for learners of all levels, from cardiology technicians to fellows. The site offers three levels of courses, incrementally increasing the learner’s knowledge base and allowing them to progress to the next learning tier.

With over 60 hours of ECG education offered across all three tiers, learners have the option to start with the basics or shoot straight through to the most advanced level. In addition to the three ECG courses, Dr Tullo also provides weekly ChalkTalks for experienced readers, which are short ‘how-to’ video tutorials based on a single rhythm strip or 12-lead ECG.

Participants can claim up to 38 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (expiry Dec. 31, 2027). 

They offer several membership tiers, with both monthly and annual payment options. Pricing is flexible with options to complete a certificate for a fixed price or subscribe for continuous access to each course level. For those looking to get their feet a little wet first, the ECG Academy also offers a ChalkTalks Only subscription, which gets you access to new weekly ChalkTalks and a library of the 5–10 most recent talks for a low price.

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4. BMJ Learning

Using a mixture of 3D animation, audio narrative, images, and detailed text, these ECG courses by BMJ Learning are interesting ones. As you would expect from one of the world’s leading medical journals, BMJ Learning’s ECG courses undergo a peer-review process.

They offer about 14 CPD points’ worth of training spread across 16 courses. They cover both basic and advanced topics, including ECG interpretation and how to approach it systematically. There is also a reference list of key abnormalities with ECG examples, and a (small) library of ECGs to practise on.

BMJ Learning courses are accredited for CME/CPD by colleges, associations, and authorities from around the world. However, they don’t offer AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ or EACCME®.

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5. ECG Waves

This Clinical ECG Interpretation course is centred around the ECG interpretation book of Dr Araz Rawshani. It offers videos to supplement the textbook content. For a one-off cost of 49 USD, this is more of an online e-textbook purchase with video lectures and ECG tests thrown in for free. Audiobook versions of the content are also being created.

The content is comprehensive, and you can check out some parts of the book or trial some ECG tests for free if you want to get a good look before you buy. This is a structured programme and the difficulty builds up gradually compared to other books which oversimplify content in a bid to keep it print-friendly.

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6. Simple Education

Simple Education Essential Guide to electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation is an 11-part comprehensive guide to ECG interpretation with over 3 hours of video content and a course manual.

Taught by electrophysiologist Prof Richard Schilling and interventional cardiologist Dr Andrew Sharp, this course is designed to give doctors a solid background in ECG interpretation. With case examples and an MCQ quiz at the end, this course is for those looking for a quick entry to ECG interpretation.

However, because it’s rated 3/5 stars by course-takers, it may be better as an adjunct to your learning rather than your primary source of ECG training.

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7. EMedHome – Advanced ECG Workshop

The Advanced ECG Workshop is an advanced course with over 7 hours of personal instruction by Dr Amal Mattu, a renowned educationalist specialising in Emergency Medicine cardiology. The programme aims to prime the user with the ability to interpret ECGs like an expert!

The course covers more advanced topics, including subtle and sinister signs and diagnoses not to be missed. Here are examples of topics covered:

1. Recognizing ACS
2. ECG Mimics of Cardiac Ischemia
3. Diagnosing Dysrhythmias
4. Bradydysrhythmias and AV Blocks
5. Tachydysrhythmias
6. Syncope, Sudden Death, and the ECG

Upon completion of this course, you are eligible to receive up to 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

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8. Corexcel^®

Corexcel^® offers several medical courses, including Essentials of Electrocardiography. Though it doesn’t list the duration of the course, it looks like an introduction to ECG, and we suspect it is more suited to students and early-career physicians. Examples of topics covered include the heart’s anatomy and physiology, setting up and administering ECGs, recognising arrhythmias, lead placement, and patient assessment.

Certificates are generated once a student achieves a 70% or better average score on the chapter tests. You also need to complete a brief evaluation of the course. You can earn up to 5.3 IACET CEUs.

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9. ECG Stampede

ECG Stampede is run by a team of 4 physicians. The course contains 10 units, and includes access to their ECG Stampede book. Each unit has the following format:

1. A pre-unit test to assess your knowledge
2. The learning material (video)
3. An opportunity to practise what you just learned
4. A test that asks you to triage several ECGs based on what you just learned

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10. Medvarsity

Medvarsity describes itself as ‘Asia’s largest and most trusted Healthcare EdTech company’. Their 12-Lead ECG course is aimed at health professionals across the board. It is not subscription-based, but rather a course you pay for outright and must complete within the 2-month course duration (this can be extended for a fee, based on the extension period needed).

Though we didn’t get past the paywall, the curriculum shown on the site appears to be in line with the content provided by other institutions reviewed here. With an overall rating of 4/5 stars by Medvarsity users, the platform may be worth a look, but it’s difficult to gauge the quality of the course without any previews available.

Medvarsity is accredited by ACCME for physician CME, the British Accreditation Council for Online, Distance, and Blended Learning, and CPD Standards UK for international CPD credits.

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Final Verdict

Each of the courses reviewed here has its strengths. If you are looking for a structured educational course from basic to advanced, then Medmastery and the ECG Academy offer the best value proposition. Both offer robust, in-depth ECG courses with a variety of teaching formats at very reasonable prices. Both are taught by well-regarded teachers, offer multiple levels based on existing skill level, and are easy to follow.

For contextual case-based ECG education, ECG Weekly is hard to beat, offering world-renowned teaching in an easily digestible format, a great way to augment your ECG knowledge. For a deep dive into ECG and nothing else, the ECG Academy might be for you. With 60+ hours of ECG education, you’ll definitely get your money’s worth. If you don’t have a lot of spare time and need to maximise the time you spend mastering ECG, and if you want an option that gives you access to a wide variety of skill-based courses, Medmastery is probably your best bet.

If you prefer a text-based approach, then the ECG Waves course with e-book looks promising with its expanding database and low cost of entry at present.

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#FOAMed resources

Most of the free ECG resources we found didn’t quite meet all the inclusion criteria, but they were so fabulous that we’ve included them here anyway. These are a great supplement to your ECG learning experience, and some of these resources are comprehensive enough to help you create your own ECG learning pathway if you’d prefer not to go with a paid course option.

ECG Quiz

• ECG Quiz—ECG Interpretation
• Unique point: Practise with over 200 12-lead ECG strips

#EM3 ECG Interpretation Quiz

• ECG Quiz—ECG Interpretation
• Unique point: Systematic approach to interpreting the 12-lead ECG. Differentiate between common Emergency Department arrhythmias

Practical Clinical Skills

• ECG Training and Practice
• Unique point: ECG Practice Strips, several courses, and quizzes are free

ECGPedia

• ECGPedia—The ECG course
• Unique point: Presented as the ‘Wikipedia for ECG’ so it’s very easy to navigate, and content-rich.

EKG Interpretation with Dr Eric Strong

• EKG Interpretation Video playlist
• Unique point: Over 8 hours of video content presented through their YouTube channel as a structured playlist.

ECG Analysis Queen’s University

• Analysis and Interpretation of the Electrocardiogram
• Unique point: Short, sweet, and to the point. Good overview of the basics.

ECG Assessment

• ECG Assessment—an online course for Healthcare providers
• Unique point: This is actually a paid course, but you can access it for free for 2 weeks after you register.

ECG Wave-Maven

• ECG Self-Assessment Program for Students and Clinicians
• Unique point: Case-based programme; browse by cases or diagnoses, also option to view random cases.

ECG Made Simple

• ECG Made Simple—Stepwise Tutorials and practice ECG
• Unique point: Over 500 ECG tracings are available for study with increasing levels of difficulty (5 different levels and Electrophysiology).

ECG Simulator

• SkillStat: The 6 Second ECG
• Unique point: An interface that simulates live ECG tracings to help you quickly learn the unique features of 27 different types of ECG patterns.

EKG.Academy

• EKG.Academy: Lessons, Quizzes, Guides
• Unique point: Offers lessons, quizzes, and reference sheets in a semi-structured format. They also offer paid plans with more features.

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