SCMR Advanced CMR Course Hong Kong
- Dates: 2-5 April 2025
- Venue: William M,W. Mong Block, Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road, The University ofHongKong,HongKong SAR, China
Course Chair: Dr Ming-Yen Ng
Chair of the SCMR Education Committee; Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; SCMR level 3 accredited
Course Co-Chair: Prof Vanessa Ferreira
SCMR Vice President (2025-2026); Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; SCMR level 3 accredited
SCMR is excited to announce a new format of advanced CMR workshops led by an international Faculty of the SCMR! Are you looking to go beyond level 1 training and become a competent CMR practitioner?
These advanced workshops are designed to prepare you to become an independent practitioner and go beyond interpreting scans! In addition, to going through ~100 cases, there will live scanning at the scanning sites, advice on setting up of CMR services and direct mentorship from an expert Faculty.
Course Objectives:
- Learn cardiac MR acquisition and sequences via didactic lectures and hands-on scanning.
- Learn indications, post-processing, analysis and reporting of cases via didactic lectures and hands-on experience.
- Exposure to 100 cases which will include, cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, aortopathy, valvular heart disease, pericardial disease, cardiac masses and congenital heart disease (faculty-led review of 30-35 cases per day on Days 1-3)
- Mentorship by CMR experts in learning how to set up a CMR service, undertaking research and keeping up to date with CMR developments.
Audience:
- Radiologists, cardiologists and other health care professionals aiming to learn more advanced applications of CMR for the assessment of cardiovascular disease.
- Radiology, cardiology and medical residents aiming to increase their CMR exposure and eventually obtain level 2 and 3 accreditation.
- Paediatric and congenital heart disease specialists and trainees aiming to learn the clinical utility of CMR
- MRI technologists/ radiographers and allied health care professionals wishing to better understand the clinical utility of CMR
- MRI scientists wishing to better understand the clinical translation and applicability of CMR
At the end of the course, attendees will be eligible for Level 1 SCMR accreditation and certification can be used towards application of level 2 SCMR accreditation.
Language
English speaking tutors are available in the workshop.
Travel
The workshop takes places at the University of Hong Kong Medical School campus which is located in the Pokfulam area with many buses leading to the medical campus.
