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European Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology (EACTA) Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia Fellowship Curriculum: First Edition
Gabor Erdoes 1 , Alain Vuylsteke 2 , Jan-Uwe Schreiber 3 , R Peter Alston 4 , Simon J Howell 5 , Patrick F Wouters 6 , Fabio Guarracino 7 , Dragana Unic-Stojanovic 8 , Alberto Hernandez Martinez 9 , Marc Vives 10 , Philippe Gaudard 11 , Philippe Burtin 12 , Dominique Bettex 13 , Manuel Granell 14 , Andrea Szekely 15 , Joost van der Maaten 16 , Theofani Antoniou 17 , María José Jiménez 18 , Laszlo Szegedi 19 , Manfred Seeberger 20 , Joachim M Erb 21 , Rajni Singh 22 , Vera von Dossow 23 , Purificación Matute 24 , Peter Rosseel 25 , Nandor Marczin 26 , Giovanni Landoni 27 , Kirstin Wilkinson 28 , Paul Diprose 29 , Chirojit Mukherjee 28 , Gianluca Paternoster 30 , Mohamed R El-Tahan 31 ; Education and Subspecialty Committees of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology (EACTA)
Abstract
This special article summarizes the design and certification process of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology (EACTA) Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia (CTVA) Fellowship Program.
The CTVA fellowship training includes a two-year curriculum at an EACTA-accredited educational facility. Before fellows are accepted into the program, they must meet a number of requirements, including evidence of a valid license to practice medicine, a specialist degree examination in anesthesiology, and appropriate language skills as required in the host centers.
The CVTA Fellowship Program has 2 sequential and complementary levels of training-both with a modular structure that allows for individual planning and also takes into account the differing national healthcare needs and requirements of the 36 countries represented in EACTA. The basic training period focuses on the anesthetic management of patients undergoing cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgery and related procedures.
The advanced training period is intended to deepen and to extend the clinical and nontechnical skills that fellows have acquired during the basic training. The goal of the EACTA fellowship is to produce highly trained and competent perioperative physicians who are able to care for patients undergoing cardiac, thoracic, and vascular anesthesia.
CITATION J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2020 May;34(5):1132-1141. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2019.12.014. Epub 2019 Dec 17.
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