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
- 19 March 2026
- 16 April 2026
- 21 May 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.
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
| 12pm to 12:05pm | Welcome and quiz | |
| 12:05pm to 12:20pm | Normal anatomy, chamber recognition | Yen Ho |
| 12:20pm to 12:40pm | Segmental analysis of congenital heart defects | Yen Ho |
| 12:40pm to 12:45pm | Q&A | |
| 12:45pm to 12:55pm | Interatrial communications and atrial septal defects | Yen Ho |
| 12:55pm to 1:10pm | Ventricular septal defects | Yen Ho |
| 1:10pm to 1:25pm | Atrioventricular septal defects | Yen Ho |
| 1:25pm to 1:30pm | Q&A | |
| 1:30 to 1:40pm | Break and quiz | |
| 1:40pm to 1:50pm | Aortic stenosis, pulmonary stenosis | Karen McCarthy |
| 1:50pm to 2:05pm | Fallot’s tetralogy | Karen McCarthy |
| 2:05pm to 2:10pm | Q&A | |
| 2:10pm to 2:25pm | Complete transposition | Yen Ho |
| 2:25pm to 2:45pm | Physiologically univentricular hearts | Yen Ho |
| 2:45pm to 3pm | Q&A, quiz review |
Contact us
For more information about this course, or if you have any queries, please email gstt.morph@nhs.net