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Abdominal and Pelvic MRI Course 2024
Available to view on-demand from 3 October 2024
- An interactive online course for providing a focused update on abdominal and pelvic MRI. Suitable for all Consultant Radiologists and Senior Trainees
- Format: Short theory lectures followed by interactive interpretation and reporting sessions with your own PACS access.
- CPD: 12 credits with certificate in accordance with the CPD Scheme of the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR), UK
DAY ONE
70 minutes
Gynaecology – Malignancy
Dr Victoria Stewart
Consultant Radiologist and Hon Clinical Senior Lecturer, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
60 minutes
Renal
Dr Usman Bashir
Consultant Radiologist, Barts Health NHS Trust
60 minutes
Small Bowel
Dr Gurinder Nandra
Consultant Radiologist, Barts Health NHS Trust
60 minutes
Paediatric
Dr Rebecca Spruce
Consultant Radiologist, Imperial College London
70 minutes
Prostate
Dr Amish Lakhani
Consultant Radiologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London and Mount Vernon Hospital
70 minutes
Gynaecology – Adnexal Imaging
Dr Nishat Bharwani
Consultant Radiologist and Hon Clinical Senior Lecturer, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
DAY TWO
60 minutes
Colorectal
Dr Miranda Harvie
Consultant Radiologist, Everlight Radiology
60 minutes
Fistula
Dr Catalin Ivan
Consultant Radiologist, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
60 minutes
Liver
Dr Priti Dutta
Consultant Radiologist, Royal Free Hospital
50 minutes
HPB and MRCP
Dr Priti Dutta
Consultant Radiologist, Royal Free Hospital
70 minutes
Edge of the Film: Bone Marrow and Soft Tissue of the Pelvis
Dr Chris Lord
Consultant Radiologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
The content
- Faculty of practicing consultant radiologists, experts in their fields, with extensive experience in advancing the abdominal and pelvic MRI skills of peers nationally and internationally
- No didactic lectures – practical course, with case based learning and teaching pearls.
- Comprehensive - covering a full range of abdominal and pelvic imaging topics.
- Stimulating, interactive, challenging cases, and very importantly, immediate feedback with around 100 cases to interpret and report
Topics:
- Renal
- Gynaecology – Benign & Malignant
- Colorectal
- Prostate
- MRA/MRV
- Small Bowel
- Fistula
- Liver
- Hepatobiliary/MRCP
The aim
To provide Consultant Radiologists with a practical, stimulating and comprehensive update on advanced interpretation and reporting practice in abdominal pelvic MRI:
- practical (case-based learning);
- stimulating (interactive, challenging cases, immediate feedback)
- comprehensive (covering a full range of abdo and pelvic imaging topics)
By the end of the course, the delegate will have:
- (1) a comprehensive understanding of best practice in advanced abdominal pelvic MRI interpretation and reporting
- (2) improved body MRI interpretation and reporting skills;
- (3) greater confidence in their advanced practice; and
- (4) identified skills and knowledge gaps, if any, relevant to their practice, and clear ways by which these can be addressed.
Course director
Dr Nishat Bharwani
Dr Nishat Bharwani is a Consultant Radiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. She qualified with honours from Guy’s, King’s & St Thomas’ Medical School in 2000 and undertook basic medical training in London and Brighton, obtaining membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2003. She completed general Radiology training at St George's Hospital (2003-2008) and a fellowship in body MRI at Barts and The London NHS Trust (2008-2010), becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists in 2008. Her radiological interests include gynaecological imaging, oncological imaging and urological imaging and she has published in these areas. Dr Bharwani is heavily involved in teaching as joint Training Programme Director for Radiology trainees at Imperial, lead for the NW London panel writing MCQs for the FRCR 2A examination, and regularly delivers lectures and workshops both nationally and internationally.
Faculty profiles
Dr Usman Bashir
Dr Usman Bashir trained as a radiologist in 2012 at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital, Pakistan. In the UK, he undertook further fellowship training at the Royal Marsden and King’s College Hospitals in London. He then completed a research fellowship at St Thomas’ Hospital in 2017, which involved developing machine learning algorithms in cancer imaging.
Since joining Barts Health NHS in 2018 as a consultant radiologist, Dr Bashir has been supporting the cancer imaging group, with a particular focus on urologic imaging. He is also developing an AI research program at Barts which aims to improve cancer detection and quantification from CT scans.
Dr Miranda Harvie
Dr Miranda Harvie trained in the Auckland Radiology Program in NZ before moving to London. She describes herself as a grassroots radiologist who has had to adapt to the needs of a busy West London DGH at Ealing Hospital, working there from 2003-2022. Since retiring from the NHS she has been working for Everlight Radiology and Circle Health Group.
Over the 2 decades in the NHS she has had to cover nearly every gamut of general radiology to cover areas of need as they arose and is now truly a generalist but with special interest in GI and Gynae imaging. She has been fortunate to work and train with expert GI colleagues at St Mark’s Hospital and would like to share some of the top tips she has learned in colorectal MRI.
Dr Catalin Ivan
Catalin is a Consultant Radiologist with a gastrointestinal and gynaecological interest. He Trained in Leicester and joined Buckingham Healthcare NHS Trust in 2020 as consultant.
Dr Amish Lakhani
Dr Amish Lakhani is a Consultant Oncological and Genitourinary Radiologist at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He is the lead radiologist for the Mount Vernon CyberKnife MDT and a core member of the specialist Uro-oncology MDTs at Imperial.
He completed his medical training at the University of Cambridge and University College London where he graduated with Distinction.
Following completion of his specialist radiology training at Imperial College he was appointed Clinical Fellow in Oncological Imaging at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.
He has special interests in whole-body MRI, PET-CT, image-guided radiotherapy planning and multi-parametric prostate MRI.
Dr Lakhani is the radiology training lead at Mount Vernon. He is an invited examiner on several FRCR courses and is Clinical Supervisor for radiology trainees.
He is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. He has presented internationally, published in international journals and has been awarded national and international prizes.
Dr Rebecca Spruce
Rebecca is a paediatric radiology consultant with a sub-specialist interest in infectious diseases imaging. She has a strong background in medical education alongside leadership and management with roles in both clinical and learning environments.
Comments from 2024
- Very good coverage, well done; just keep it up!
- Excellent cases and excellent speakers
- Great Teaching modality, great faculty and great choice of topics
- I enjoyed the variety of cases, excellent review of cases before answers given and very good time keeping
- I liked the Pacs service, Informed IT support always there when needed
- Very good diversity of topics; nice to review cases on dicom; and why not to mention, in the comfort of your home
- Great cases, good approach to reviewing, presentation by engaging speakers
- Great cases, easy access to PACS, IT support
- Good presenters, catering for most levels.
- This course has been really convenient, comprehensive and well-supported by Infomed
- Very good pace of presentations, interactivity and I value the honesty of presenters when giving their opinions
- Less mr sequences to review in each case. A file of key images would be best given limited time for each case
- All good, nothing really to add. Perhaps, pending on timings more cases with the key sequences only!
- Really useful, this enhanced my practical knowledge
- Helped to improve my reporting and thinking outside the box!
- Make me better at reporting and to improving communication with the clinician colleagues
Comments from 2023
- Thanks, excellent coverage encompassing all important organs and pathologies
- Good number of cases, very interactive, very good lecturers, supportive, friendly
- Very good online platform, quality of streaming, good to have access to recorded teaching.
- I did like the comprehensive contents delivered by expert instructors in interactive learning.
- I thought having Slido was good for interaction and learning.
- This course had a wide variety of cases and pathologies, all clearly presented and good time keeping…and on line.
- Good range of subjects and content and a good PACS and streaming service
- Very good variety of cases and presentations and the ability to interact with the lecturers eg, slido , chat. All good.
- Positive and good update on various topics it met my CPD need
- This course helped me to improve my professional knowledge, and will lead to better diagnosis, reporting and patient care.
- This course has definitely improved diagnostic skills and my confidence for my daily reporting
Comments from 2022
- Coverage within the topics, interactive case review
- Quality of cases
- Gynae sessions, interactive nature, cases
- Broad content, cases, excellent speakers
- the cases, speakers and questions
- good range of topics and pathology. aimed at general radiologist.
- 1) varying levels of depth coverage 2) adequate time to cover the items 3) good coverage of answers
- Lots of cases to view, interaction, smooth pacs
- IT support, easy pacs use, Gyne section
- choice of cases, interaction and overall good lecturers
- Broad coverage, “generalist” approach, use of cases
- PACS, streaming without issues, all lectures good overview
- Online access, quality of lecturers, coverage of topic
Access to cases for our imaging events
Our imaging courses are very much an interactive experience. Presentations are kept to the minimum and then you'll be into the fully featured cloud based DICOM viewer, looking at cases, feeding back your findings using our interactive tools. You'll get immediate feedback and learning points from our expert faculty member.
- Attendance of the course includes access to the database of cases associated to this event on our server at PostDICOM.
- Full access to each case with a full toolset to open, view and manipulate each case alongside the faculty but on your own screen!
- You will maintain your access to the resource throughout your 60 day catch-service period too.
Sample the DICOM viewer here. A window will load below the buttons (best demonstrated on a computer rather than mobile device)
When will I receive my course login?
We will contact you by email one week before the course takes place with all the necessary links and joining information.
We will re-send the links the day before the course.
If you have not received an email from us please contact us at webinars@infomedltd.co.uk and we will respond ASAP.
Will I need any special software to partake?
NO. Infomed shall provide you, upon registration a link to stream the course within your web browser, or you can download a small application to run it as a separate window on your computer. If you would prefer a mobile device, we shall also include a link download an app from the Play Store/App Store.
Can I interact with the speakers?
YES! It is very much encouraged. There will be Q&A sessions chaired by Infomed. You can type your questions in the ‘chat’ facility and they will be put to the speakers.
How I do access my catch-up & CPD certificate?
You can find your catch-up in your account page.
At the end of the catch-up page you will find a link to the feedback form, which will generate your CPD certificate when you submit your feedback.
If the catch-up is not visible in your account, please contact us and we will amend your account ASAP.
How to connect to a live online course
Using the short videos below, we shall guide you through the process of joining a meeting using Webex.
If joining from your own computer
If you are connecting from your own device then it is likely that you will be able to join via the Webex application.
If joining from a trust/institution computer
However, if you are using a computer that is owned and restricted by your trust, then you may find it easier to join via your web browser. Please see the second video for guidance on this process.
Joining Webex using the application on your PC or Mac
Joining Webex using your web browser
Accessing the PACS
Using the short videos below, we shall guide you through the process of opening the PACS and then on to opening, manipulating, and closing a case.
You are welcome to access our demo case set below
View demo cases here
Password: INFOMED
Accessing the database and cases on PACS
Advanced features of PACS
I've connected to a course but can't hear anything
When you connect to a course you should see some introductory slides and hear music.
If you cannot hear any music please check you are connected to the audio.
At the bottom of the webex meeting you may see a button that says “Connect to audio”.
Click this and then select “Use computer for audio” in the pop-up box.
If you have connected by a browser you may need to give your browser access to your microphone in order to connect to the audio.
Click the padlock in the top left of your browser and make sure microphone access is allowed
If this does not resolve your issue please email us or call us on 0204 520 5081
What do I need to join a course?
To join an Infomed Online course you simply need an internet connection and a browser (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari).
You can also connect from a mobile device: Download the Webex Meetings app from your App Store.
To join a course with a smooth experience, your internet connection must be stable, not connected to a VPN and at least 20Mbps download.
Below you can use the tool to run an internet speed test.
You must test from:
- — the location that you intend the see the course from;
- — withing the location, if using Wi-Fi, the room or department area that you intend to view the course from to ensure a good signal
- — if connecting from home, a computer that is not connected to a workplace VPN
Speed test
Internet Speed Test
Please test your connection speed at www.fast.com
To join a course with a smooth experience, your internet connection must be stable, not connected to a VPN and at least 20Mbps download.
Fee: £295
- 120 days of access with unlimited playback during this time
- Access to PACS included
- CPD Certificate of attendance upon completion with 12 CPD points
- Opportunity to submit questions directly to the faculty