The Academy runs a standing peer-review forum for real cases. Members bring cases they are managing or have managed, present the imaging and the reasoning, and take questions from the floor. It is a teaching format, not a consultation service: nothing discussed here constitutes clinical advice on an individual patient, and every case must be de-identified before it is shown.
Weekly schedule
All sessions run online. Timings are Indian Standard Time.
| Day | Time (IST) | Session | Led by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 19:00 – 20:00 | Interventional cardiology case review | Dr A M Thirugnanam |
| Wednesday | 19:00 – 20:00 | ECG and arrhythmia case discussion | Guest faculty |
| Friday | 19:00 – 20:30 | Complex case grand rounds — open submission | Panel |
| Saturday | 11:00 – 12:00 | Trainee and fellow case presentation | Fellows in training |
What a presentation should contain
Presenters are asked to bring the case in the order the treating team met it, not in the order that makes the diagnosis obvious. That means: presentation and relevant history; examination findings; the initial working diagnosis; the investigations that mattered, with the findings pointed out; the decision point where reasonable clinicians would have differed; what was chosen and why; and the outcome, including where the outcome was poor. Four or five minutes of narrative, then discussion.
Imaging
ECGs, coronary angiographic runs, echocardiographic loops and cross-sectional imaging are all welcome and are what make a session worth attending. Every image must be fully de-identified before it is shared: remove the patient name, hospital number, date of birth, admission date and institutional identifiers, and check the DICOM header as well as the visible frame, because identifiers survive there routinely after being cropped from the picture.
The Friday grand rounds
Friday is open submission and deliberately the hardest session. Cases selected for grand rounds are the ones where the management was genuinely contested — a lesion that could reasonably have gone to surgery, an antithrombotic decision in a patient with a high HAS-BLED score, a device decision made on incomplete information. Panel members are asked to argue the alternative position rather than agree.
Submitting a case
Submission is open to any registered doctor. Use the case submission form, giving age and sex and clinical detail only. Cases are triaged to the session that fits them, and presenters are told which week they are scheduled for. Cases that are not selected for a live session are often published instead in the case library.
Ground rules
Discussion is about the decision, never about the clinician. Cases with poor outcomes are presented and analysed here precisely because they teach more than the ones that went smoothly, and that only works if presenters can bring them without fear of being criticised personally. Recordings are made available to Academy members; nothing is circulated outside the membership.
Related Academy teaching: the image of the month challenge, the quiz of the month, the structured course programme, and the learning centre.