Last week we were back in Ashorne Hill, Leamington Spa for the SCTS Congenital course.

Trainees ranging from ST3 to ST7 got the chance to practice a variety of congenital operations on both pig and piglet hearts over the two days.

This course also featured in the SCTS Bulletin issue 17, where an annonymous questionnaire was ran to evaluate the impact such courses have on trainees.

"The overall results are impressive, all candidtates agreed the course improved both their theoretical knowledge and technical skills. This was demonstrated by subjective self -evaluated competencies for the operations practiced during teh course."

The article goes on to explain how "the workshop allowed networking with experts of the field across different centres"

Some of the comments from the delegates:

"super anatomical and morphological demonstration"

"excellent hands-on sessions"

"the best SCTS course I've been on"

"large number of hearts and equipment"

"every single step of the surgical procedures was shown, and every single error corrected"

"nice meet up with colleagues".