A cardiac imaging training provider based in Wales

Why the Academy exists

Cardiac CT is no longer a niche examination. It is the first-line test for stable chest pain in the NICE pathway, the standard pre-procedural test before TAVI, and the study the cath lab now expects before a complex PCI. The number of scans has risen sharply in five years. The number of clinicians accredited to report them independently has not kept pace, and the established Level 2 courses are mostly in person, single specialty, London based, and booked well ahead.

We wanted a course that a consultant in Swansea, Sunderland, Dubai or Chennai could attend without a week in a London hotel, that was taught by both specialties, that got delegates through 150 reported cases rather than 150 slides, and that did not stop on the last afternoon.

Why an academy rather than a course

A six-day course is a transaction. The Academy is meant to be the place delegates come back to: a Fellowship that continues the teaching and case review after the course, radiographer courses so that the whole cardiac imaging team is trained to the same standard, and a cardiac MRI reporting course opening in 2027. The pathway runs from a clinician's first cardiac CT to Level 2 accreditation, and on towards Level 3.

Why Wales

Most UK cardiac imaging training runs from London. London teaching is very good, but it is expensive, it assumes you can take a week off and stay near Brompton or Barts, and for an overseas delegate it adds several thousand pounds before the course fee. By teaching live online from Wales we can offer a course at £1,950 that costs delegates nothing in travel or accommodation.

There is a second reason. The cardiac imaging community in Wales is small and unusually collaborative. Radiologists and cardiologists sit in the same MDT rooms and read each other's cases in a way that is harder to find in larger centres. Both directors trained and practise in that community, and the Academy is its extension.

What we believe about teaching cardiac imaging

Both specialties in the room. Every clinical session on the doctor course is taught by a cardiologist and a radiologist together. Where they read an image differently, we say so.

Volume of reported cases. Every Level 2 course has lectures. What differs is how many cases delegates actually report under supervision. We chose 150 because that is the BSCI evidence requirement, and delegates report all of them, with catheter correlation, within the six days.

Accreditation is the goal. The course does not end at the certificate. We advise on the 25-case hospital logbook, the verification form and the BSCI application, and six months of the Fellowship are included so the support continues.

Live online can be as good as the room. Online teaching has a reputation as the lesser version of in-person teaching. With a small group, shared workstations, questions taken live and recordings that remain available, it is at least as good, and it leaves you with a reference library that an in-person course never does.

Who we are

The Academy is co-founded and co-directed by Dr Sriraj Kannoly, consultant cardiologist, and Dr Syed Junaid, consultant radiologist, with a faculty of senior cardiac CT and cardiac MRI radiographers: Sarah Maund, Nic George and Helena Salgueiro. Both directors report independently and both hold the view, uncommon in private medical education, that the standard of teaching for an overseas delegate should be identical to that for a UK consultant.

The Academy trades as Cardiac Imaging Academy Ltd, registered in Wales, United Kingdom. Programmes are aligned to the BSCI/BSCCT and SCCT Level 2 accreditation pathways; accreditation is awarded by those societies, not by the Academy. CPD credits for the doctor course are awarded under the CPD scheme of The Royal College of Radiologists. The Level 1 and 2 Cardiac CT Course is sponsored by Medis Medical Imaging; the faculty alone decide what is taught.

Email: hello@cardiacimagingacademy.co.uk