We look forward to offering unique training opportunities in Cardiac Imaging to colleagues from a wide range of backgrounds and grades at the 2025 BCS Annual Conference Education Zone ‘Imaging Village’.

Our audience includes:

(1) Those practicing in Cardiology: Cardiology SHOs/IMTs, Cardiology SpRs/IMT3/ST3-8, Cardiology Clinical Fellows, Consultant Cardiologists

(2) A wide range of non-Cardiology doctors: Radiology SpRs/Consultants, Acute Medicine SpRs/Consultants, Nuclear Medicine Physicians, Intensive Care/Anaesthetics Doctors, General Practitioners

(3) A wide range of allied health professionals: Cardiac Clinical Physiologists, Cardiac Radiographers, Cardiology Nurses

Sessions will cover normal cases and a wide range of pathologies and indications for each modality and will be aligned with the JRCPTB Cardiology training curriculum and curricula for those training for accreditation in TTE, TOE, Stress Echo, CMR, CT and Nuclear Cardiology with British and International Imaging Societies.

New training sessions and opportunities available at the 2025 Imaging Village:

We are excited to introduce a number of new training sessions and learning opportunities for the first time at this year’s Imaging Village. These include:

(a) Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) CMR station

We look forward to being able to offer this station again this year, which proved very popular in 2023, for those wishing to gain experience in more advanced indications for CMR. This will provide workstation-based training covering CMR image acquisition and post-processing/analysis for ACHD CMR (covering a wide range of pathologies from basic ACHD to complex ACHD [e.g. single-ventricle Fontan cases]).

(b) Practical CT scanning station

We aspire to provide training in both practical image acquisition/scanning and analysis/reporting aspects of modalities offered. Hence, we are excited to introduce a new, ‘Practical CT scanning station’ this year in collaboration with GE. This will allow delegates to have the experience of running a Cardiac CT scanner and image acquisition/optimisation.

(c) 3D Transoesophageal Echocardiography (3D-TOE)

We are excited to be able to offer delegates the chance to gain practical experience and training in 3D TOE image acquisition and manipulation. This is a crucial skill to master in contemporary TOE practice and will be offered at the Surgical Science TOE simulator.

(d) ‘Imaging Masterclasses’

These special, small-group practical workshops will provide image acquisition and analysis teaching, tips and gems on a range of important imaging topics, delivered by experts in these modalities from national and international imaging societies. These were introduced in 2023 and have proved very popular. We look forward to offering these again this year. We will open bookings for these sessions in early May.

• TTE: Adult Congenital Heart Disease Echo, 3D Echo, Strain Echo, Critical Care Echo
• Stress Echo: Dobutamine Stress Echo, Exercise Stress Echo Valve Assessment
• TOE: Tricky/Unconventional/Contemporary Views, Structural Intervention TOE, 3D TOE
• CT: Perfecting your CTCA Scanning Technique, TAVI CT, and more!
• CMR: Stress MRI, Optimising CMR Scanning/Image Quality, and more!

(f) ‘Imaging Mentoring’

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all industry partners supporting the 2025 BCS Annual Conference Education Zone Imaging Village through their provision of equipment and technical support:

• Echocardiography: GE HealthCare, Philips, Surgical Science
• Cardiac CT: GE HealthCare, Siemens-Healthineers, Canon Medical Systems, Medis Medical Imaging, HeartFlow
• Cardiac MRI: Circle Cardiovascular Imaging, Medis Medical Imaging, Mycardium AI
• Nuclear Cardiology: British Nuclear Cardiology Society

As overall BCS Imaging Village Initiative Lead for 2025 and CMR Modality Lead, I and the BCS would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to the individual expert Modality Leads and to all the expert faculty of the Imaging Village (Modality and Masterclass Trainers) for their time and expertise to train delegates:

2025 Imaging Village Modality Leads

• Transthoracic Echocardiography: Mr Patrick O’ Driscoll
• Stress Echocardiography: Dr Camelia Demetrescu
• Transoesophageal Echocardiography: Dr Samir Srivastava
• Cardiac CT: Dr Jamie Kitt & Dr Sri Iyengar
• Cardiac MRI: Dr Jamal Khan
• Nuclear Cardiology: Dr Rebecca Schofield

I would like to express a special thanks to Katherine Holvik, Claire Cartwright, Jasdeep Bhamber, Gareth Bentley and Nicola Knott from the BCS for their invaluable and tireless administrative support, and to Professor Andrew Clark, BCS Annual Conference Programming Committee Chair for his support.

Dr Jamal Khan

2025 British Cardiovascular Society Annual Conference Imaging Village Lead

Consultant Cardiac Imaging Cardiologist, UHCW NHS Trust (Coventry)

We’re delighted to offer a wide range of hands-on simulation training in  the ‘Simulator Village’.

This year, you can receive personalised training in : 

• TAVI
• Structural (ASD/PFO)
• Electrophysiology
• Pacing
• Pericardiocentesis
• PCI
• CTO PCI

Where appropriate, the training will follow key objectives tracking to the JRCPTB 2010 Specialty curriculum for cardiology (amended 2016), but will also be tailored to the experience of the individual so is suitable for all trainees and consultants. 

The TAVI, EP, CTO, PCI and structural heart stations are particularly geared towards hands-on training for senior interventional trainees/fellows and consultants.