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European Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology (EACTA) Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia Fellowship Curriculum: First Edition

01-may-2020 | Revista: Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

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.

CITA DEL ARTÍCULO  J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2020 May;34(5):1132-1141.  doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2019.12.014. Epub 2019 Dec 17.