Provisional Programme Day 1

Thursday 2nd October 2013

08.30-09.00 / Registration & Coffee
Session 1: Getting started
09.00-09.15 / Introduction & Welcome (including housekeeping) / N Naqvi
09.15-09.30 / Introduction to the exam including how to prepare a logbook / P Venugopalan
Session 2: Ultrasound imaging
Chair: R Khattar
09.30-10.15 / The physics of ultrasound with MCQs: Part 1 / B Smith
10.15-10.30 / Discussion
10.30-10.45 / The physics of ultrasound with MCQs: Part 2 / B Smith
10.45-11.15 / Coffee
11.15-11.45 / Function assessment / A Duncan
Session 3: Pulmonary & systemic venous anomalies, septal defects
Chair: R Franklin
11.45-12.05 / VSD / M Josen/
P Venugopalan
12.05-12.30 / AVSD / R Franklin
12.30-1.00 / ASD & venous anomalies / P Venugopalan/ N Naqvi
13.00-14.00 / Lunch
Session 4: Right & left heart anomalies & pericardial disease
Chair: M Josen
14.00-14.45 / Tetralogy of Fallot, double outlet right ventricle & tricuspid atresia / N Oswal
14.45-15.30 / Hypoplastic left heart, coarctation & interruption / N Naqvi
15.30-16.00 / Coffee
16.00-16.30 / Echo video clips quiz / N Naqvi/
P Venugopalan
16.30-17.00 / Pericardial disease / E Mlczoch
17.00-17.30 / Pulmonary atresia / P Daubeney


Provisional Programme Day 2

Friday 3rd October 2014

08.45-09.00 / Registration & Coffee
Session 5: Haemodynamics
Chair: S Price
09.00-09.40 / Gradients & calculations / I Voges
Session 6: Ventriculoarterial junction & vessel anomalies & PDA
Chair: N Naqvi
09.40-10.30 / Transposition, cTGA, truncus arteriosus / M Bartsota
10.30-10.45 / PDA / F Damda
10.45-11.15 / Coffee
Section 7: Miscellaneous conditions including ACHD
Chair: S Babu-Narayan
11.15-12.15 / CHD MCQs including mitral valve assessment, prosthetic valves, Ebstein’s anomaly, univentricular heart, fontan circuit, aortopathy (including TAVI & evaluation of Ross &aortic root disease / W Li
Session 8: cardiomyopathy & acquired heart disease
Chair N Oswal
12.15-12.45 / Acquired heart disease / E Mlczoch
12.45-13.15 / Cardiomyopathy / J Kaski
13.15-14.00 / Lunch
14.00-17.00 / Mock Exam