Any clinician who regularly interprets ECGs & is familiar with the common ECG patterns in ischaemia. Knowledge of basic ECG interpretation skills will be assumed. The delegate should be able to independently interpret obvious ischaemic ECGs like STEMI etc.

As this is an advanced ECG workshop for delegates who are already experienced ECG interpreters, less experienced ECG interpreters may find the discussions overwhelming, as the focus will be on the subtleties & lesser known points rather than obvious findings & well known points. Moreover, basic ECG interpretation will not be discussed which make the session less useful for less experienced ECG interpreters. 

While this workshop is aimed at Emergency Physicians, any physician who regularly interprets ECGs & is familiar with common ECG patterns of ischaemia is welcome. As far as I am concerned, there are only 2 levels of ECG interpretation - that expected from Cardiologists & Non-Cardiologists. All my teaching is focussed on helping non-Cardiology clinicians develop a level of ECG interpretation appropriate for their clinical practice. And that includes specialties like Acute Medicine, General Medicine, Critical care, Anaesthesia, Respiratory Medicine, Family Medicine & General Practitioners in addition to Emergency Medicine.

I am happy for you to attend the workshop if the timings of the workshop are fine with you. Please drop me an email before you fill out the form & I will advise you on how to proceed. 

This is because while I have conducted plenty of free ECG teaching sessions in the UK & in India, I have never conducted a ECG workshop focussing on the Middle East before. So the introductory offer is limited only to the Middle East delegates.

My name is Obaid. I am a doctor who has been working in Emergency Medicine for over 10 years - initially as a Specialist Emergency Physician in India, then as a EM Registrar in London & now currently in EM training in Leeds. 

During my early years in EM, I had a mentor in a Cardiologist who taught me the basic concepts of ECGs. Every week we used to spend 2 hours covering a topic from Leo Schamroth's 'An Introduction to Electrocardiography', and over a period of 6-7 months we covered the entire book. This was repeated multiple times over the next few years. This rigorous training completely changed the way I interpreted ECGs. It also sparked a lifelong passion in me to learn more about ECGs. As a result, I have spent a significant part of the last 8 years learning as well as teaching ECG interpretation.

Most ECG teaching resources are focussed on MBBS doctors who wish to learn basic ECG interpretation. However, there are very limited resources aimed at experienced clinicians who are already familiar with basic ECG interpretation, and wish to learn advanced ECG interpretation that is appropriate for their specialty. So my aim is to help develop resources for non-Cardiologists (especially EM physicians), which will help them develop expert level ECG interpretation skills in their relevant specialty. 

In my experience, most ECG workshops focus on MBBS doctors who wish to learn basic ECG interpretation. The reason why these workshops can cover all important topics in a single day is because most of topics are covered superficially with just the essentials being covered. And this is adequate for most MBBS level doctors who are expected to have basic ECG interpretation skills. 

But when it comes to Specialty Doctors like Emergency Physicians, they are expected to have expert level ECG interpretation skills. This requires an understanding of the finer nuances of ECG interpretation.

As I mostly focus on teaching experienced ECG interpreters, I prefer to take one topic at a time & teach everything about it - starting from the relevant basics & moving into the finer nuances of complex ECGs - so that by the end of the session, the delegate knows everything appropriate for their level of clinical practice. 

I also believe that the best way to learn ECGs is by independently practising ECG interpretation. So I design sessions with adequate time for the delegates to interpret plenty of ECGs - and then focus my discussion around their answers. Over the years, I find that this method is more useful to the delegate, as it provides a safe place for the delegates to learn from their mistakes, rather than simply hearing what I have to say. 

Doing all this takes time - and hence the need for a full day workshop. Essentially it will be one long practice session. 

When it comes to Subtle ACS, there has been a lot changes in how ischaemic ECGs are interpreted and a significant majority of physicians are either unaware or unfamiliar with this. So the aim of the Subtle ACS Workshop is to take someone who is new to this & have them practice so many of these ECGs, so that by the end of the session, they develop the pattern recognition needed to intepret Subtle ACS ECGs confidently. 

If you want to have an idea of what the The 'Subtle ACS' ECG Workshop will be like, please watch the video above (STEMI-NSTEMI vs OMI-NOMI - A Paradigm Shift in the ECG interpretation of Acute MI).  

If you are curious in general as to how I teach ECGs, I do have a YouTube channel which should give you an idea of my teaching. Most of my teaching on YouTube is meant for the general audience & so you will find that the topics discussed are quite basic. But it should give you an idea of how I use a Concept based approach to teach ECG interpretation.

I would like to reiterate here that The 'Subtle ACS' ECG workshop will be almost entirely based on pattern recognition, and not concept based. 

Also you can check out the Feedback section on this website, which will contain feedback from my past ECG teaching.

Cancellation will be permitted until the end of  November 30th 2023 (UK time). An admin charge of (£15 for Middle East delegates & ₹400 for Indian delegates) will be charged & the rest will be refunded for cancellation before the December 1st 2023. Thereafter, no cancellations will be permitted & and the course fee will not be refunded.