Requirements:
- Performed and interpreted 150 contrast-enhanced Cardiac CT Cases under supervision evidenced by:
- Verification of Hands on Practice form AND
- 25 anonymised but otherwise complete cardiac CT reports
- Evidence of 16 hours of Continuing Professional Development specific to Cardiac CT
- A letter verifying your status as a Consultant or Specialist Registrar/equivalent in Radiology, Cardiology or Cardiothoracic Surgery from your Head of Department, Human Resources or Medical Director.
Further information:
- The applicant, during normal clinical practice, has performed 150 contrast-enhanced cardiovascular CT studies. These studies should include:
- At least 60 cases of coronary analysis, no more than 25% of which were entirely normal
- At least 25 cases of other cardiac pathology e.g. pericardial diseases, valvular disease
- At least 10 cases of patients who have undergone coronary artery bypass grafting
- The applicant must have been involved in choice of scan protocol, patient preparation, study acquisition, analysis and reporting.
- All studies should have been supervised by cardiac CT practitioners formally accredited to at least BSCI/BSCCT Level 2 Experienced standard (or equivalent accreditation).
- As evidence of completion of the required 150 cases the Verification of Clinical Practice form should be downloaded, completed and submitted. This should be signed by a practitioner accredited to the standard of BSCI/BSCCT Level 2 Experienced or Level 3, SCCT Level 3 or EACVI Level 3. At the discretion of the Accreditation Committee, practitioners accredited by other societies may also be considered eligible. If there is no person with such accreditation who can sign this form then the applicant should submit a letter from the head of department on departmental headed paper, which includes the same statement of verification.
- The 50 cases from the Level 1 SCCT cardiac CT online course may be used towards the logbook of 150 cases. The course certificate should be included in the application as evidence.
- Applicants must submit 25 anonymised but otherwise complete cardiac CT reports. These should have been supervised and reported by the applicant in a hospital/clinic setting, not as part of a course or online learning. These must include scan indications, date, scan technique, dose length product and findings. These reports should be submitted as a single document. Please note that a logbook of findings is NOT acceptable – we require actual reports. An example of what is required for these 25 cases is provided here
- Evidence of 16 hours category 1 Continuing Professional Development must be submitted to include, but not be limited to:
- Image optimization, radiation dose reduction, and advanced post-processing.
- Functional assessment with cardiac CT and correlation with other modalities.
- Bypass graft anatomy and assessment.
- Coronary artery stent assessment.
- Assessment of valvular heart disease including TAVI planning.
- Role of CT in patients with heart failure.
- Role of CT in pericardial diseases and cardiac masses.
- The role of CT in evaluation of congenital heart disease.
- Assessment of non-cardiac pathologies on a cardiac CT scan, particularly lung pathology.
- All CPD must be pertinent to cardiovascular CT, demonstrably apply to the content areas above and be supported by formal certificates stating the number of CPD hours granted for the activity.
- If the submitted CPD certificates relate to general or multi-stream meetings, the onus is on the applicant to detail the lectures and modules attended relevant to this application.The applicant will then be credited an appropriate proportion of the CPD value of the meeting certificate.
An application fee must be paid before the application will be considered. A link to pay by credit card will appear once your application has been submitted.
For those submitting a fast track application the turnaround time will only start once all relevant and correct information is provided via the accreditation portal for the reviewers to access.
