This webinar introduces participants to the structure of congenital heart defects. Participants will be shown heart specimens ranging from ‘simple’ holes in the heart to more complex lesions. Although there are no clinical images, the purpose of this webinar is to enable participants to have a better overall understanding of congenital heart defects as encountered in the clinical setting.
Aims:
- Learn the structure of the normal heart as a basis for understanding heart defects.
- Learn how to analyse a malformed heart systematically
- Understand and differentiate between various types of defects
- At the end of the webinar, participants will have gained essential knowledge into the structure of heart defects to help them in their work.
Dates
- 9 July 2026
- 3 September 2026
- 1 October 2026
- 5 November 2026
Where
This course will be online only. The link to join the webinar will be made available nearer the time.
Fees
- £100 (doctor)
- £80 (physiologist)
- £60 (Guy’s and St Thomas’ staff)
A administration fee will also be applied to each booking by the booking system.
Refunds are available up to 7 days before the course. No refunds will be issued after this point
Book your place
Register for Webinar: Morphology for heart defects - the essentials
Who is it for?
- Cardiologists
- Echocardiologists
- Technicians
- Nurses.
RCP CPD credits have been allocated for this event.
Course organisers
- Professor Yen Ho, consultant cardiac morphologist, Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals.
- Dr Karen McCarthy, co-lead cardiac morphology, senior researcher, Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals.
Event programme
| 9 July and 3 Sept (UK time) | 1 Oct and 5 Nov (UK time) | Agenda |
| 9am | 12pm | Welcome and quiz |
| 9.05am | 12:05pm | Normal anatomy, chamber recognition |
| 9.20am | 12:20pm | Segmental analysis of congenital heart defects |
| 9.40am | 12:40pm | Q&A |
| 9.45am | 12:45pm | Interatrial communications and atrial septal defects |
| 9.55am | 12:55pm | Ventricular septal defects |
| 10.10am | 1:10pm | Atrioventricular septal defects |
| 10.25am | 1:25pm | Q&A |
| 10.30am | 1:30pm | Break and quiz |
| 10.40am | 1:40pm | Aortic stenosis, pulmonary stenosis |
| 10.50am | 1:50pm | Fallot’s tetralogy |
| 11.05am | 2:05pm | Q&A |
| 11.10am | 2:10pm | Complete transposition |
| 11.25am | 2:25pm | Physiologically univentricular hearts |
| 11.45am | 2:45pm | Q&A, quiz review |
| 12.00am | 3pm | END |
Contact us
For more information about this course, or if you have any queries, please email gstt.morph@nhs.net