The purpose of this award is to:
- Enhance clinical or academic skills by facilitating the learning of advanced echocardiography skills, techniques and modalities at a European centre leading in the field of echocardiography.
- Ability to introduce new accurate and evidence-proven modalities for perform echocardiography in the ACTACC community.
- Promoting new collaborations and partnerships between UK cardiothoracic centres and European centres to develop research and training initiatives in the field of echocardiography.
- Benefit the wider ACTACC membership through shared learning.
Closing Date: 31st December
If you have any questions about the Echo Case of the Year Prize, please contact info@actacc.org
- The amount is usually awarded to a single applicant, but may be split between more than one awardee at the Echo-Committee’s discretion.
- The winner/s of the prize will be awarded a one-week long observership at a leading European echocardiography centre sponsored by Phillips and funded by ACTACC (Bill Pallister Educational Scheme).
- A structured daily learning schedule will provide exposure to the wide spectrum of echocardiography use in the operating theatre and catheter lab.
- The observership aims to enhance the winner’s echocardiography knowledge and skills, with the opportunity to promote and implement new echocardiography modalities within the ACTACC community.
- Recipients of awards will be expected to write a report for the ACTACC Newsletter and give an oral or poster presentation at an ACTACC Scientific Meeting within 12 months of completing their overseas visit.
- ACTACC member in good standing.
- ACTACC residents or consultants within 3 years of their first appointment.
Your application must include the following:
- Patient’s (verbal or written) consent to the procedure and for use of anonymised images (for educational purposes).
- Personally recorded and reported.
- Image quality and dataset:
- Presence of ECG trace.
- Haemodynamic recording (BP pacing and vasoactive drugs).
- Loops are optimised appropriately (depth, focus, gain, colour box, sector width).
- Full dataset where possible – BSE dataset and appropriate use of colour flow doppler and spectral doppler.
- Case Presentation:
- Clinical case summary.
- Impact echocardiography had on patient management and outcome.
- Describe window and view (MO 4Ch, TG LV SAX etc.).
- Description of findings.
- Relevant guidelines or evidence to support the interpretation of the echocardiogram and management decisions.
- Focus on what makes the case unique or particularly educational, ideally focussing on diagnostic uncertainty or challenges, or management impact rather than purely rare findings.
- Submission Process:
- Send in as a PowerPoint slide presentation with narration to info@actacc.org.
- Closing date for applications is on 31st December 2026.
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