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Thank you to all who have submitted an essay to our competition! Essay submissions are now CLOSED! We’ll be in contact with the winner once the essays have been judged, and the winner will also be announced on here 🏆

This is an episode not to be missed! Advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support and transplant 🫀with @DrWaqasAkhtar - consultant in Cardiology, Intensive Care and GIM! Sign up via the link below 👇

There’s still time to enter our annual national essay competition! You could win a publication in @BrJCardiol 👏 Closes 21st July!

The next instalment of “Tell me about your subspecialty” is coming up! ‼️🚨 “Advanced heart failure, MCS and transplant” with Dr Waqas Akhtar! 🫀 Monday 21st July @ 19:30pm Don’t miss out on this exciting episode! Sign up here: shorturl.at/ZoQAm

Finally, a huge congratulations to Scotland East and South East, for being the highest rated deanery for cardiology training in the UK in the 2025 BJCA Training Survey!

Congratulations to this year's top trainers - voted by trainees in the BJCA survey! 👏👏 Overall 🥇 @NavMasani Intervention👨‍🔧 - Jawad Ul Qamar EP ⚡️- Jiv Gosai Imaging 📷 - @andrew_ludman / Jim Newton HF ⛽️ - @scallycaroline1 AHP - Marion Walker ACHD 🫀- Nada Al-Sakini

🎉 Congratulations to Leeds General Infirmary and Ipswich Hospital for being the highest ranked training centres in the BJCA Training Survey! Thank you for your efforts in delivering high-quality cardiology training! 🫀

Are you coming to the annual BCS conference in Manchester 2-4 June? Women in Cardiology are here waiting to welcome you at stand 34!

For any of our wonderful BJCA alumni who usually make an appearance at the BJCA@BCS Monday drinks - please be aware we have MOVED VENUE! And will not be at Oast house as usual. See newswire or DM me for new location. Look forward to seeing everyone there 😎

Apply now for the BJCA starter committee! We look forward to hopefully meeting some of you at BCS this week! 😊

🚨 Call for interest for the 2025-2027 BJCA starter committee 🚨 Are you looking to pursue a career in Cardiology and keen to get involved in a national committee?🫀 All BJCA starter members - please check your emails for the roles available and apply here forms.gle/3LC672QyA3xB1s…

WiC are looking forward to welcoming you to BCS Conference in Manchester. Please drop by our stand for a chat and attend our sessions.

The 2025 essay competition is here! 🫀🌳 “Green at heart: can cardiology become more environmentally sustainable without compromising patient care?” Deadline is 21st July - win a national prize and publication in @BrJCardiol ! See last weeks newsletter/image below for more info

It’s that time of year again - our annual national essay competition is coming up! Look out for announcements in May 🫀🌳

Really important editorial in @Heart_BMJ on the state of cardiology training at the moment in the UK, by @JonnyBatty @poktintang & @kazemr. #CardioX #cardiotwitter #cardiology @TheBJCA @BJCAstarter @BritishCardioSo heart.bmj.com/content/111/6/…

We are so grateful to all of our volunteer interviewers who gave up their evenings and weekends to help us provide these interviews! 👏 We hope everyone that had a mock interview with us benefitted from it - please do fill in the feedback form to help us continue and improve! 🫀

Our cardiology ST4 mock interviews kick off tomorrow! 🫀 a huge thank you to all of our fantastic interviewers for facilitating these, and good luck to all of those being interviewed! 🫀

🚨 We are very pleased to announce the ST4 mock interview sign ups will be released today! 🚨 The link and further information will be in the weekly BJCA newswire later this afternoon 👀 Slots will be allocated on a first come, first served basis - good luck!

Medical students and foundation doctors, sign up here for the first of our Cardiology Survival Skills Webinars on Thursday 6th March, 7.00 pm. Learn how to interpret an ECG with the inspirational Dr Jenny Rayner. app.medall.org/event-listings…

BJCA statement regarding the MRCP Part 2 results error