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

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

Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia

Gabor Erdoes, Alain Vuylsteke, Jan-Uwe Schreiber, R Peter Alston, Simon J Howell, Patrick F Wouters, Fabio Guarracino, Dragana Unic-Stojanovic, Alberto Hernandez Martinez, Marc Vives, Philippe Gaudard, Philippe Burtin, Dominique Bettex, Manuel Granell, Andrea Szekely, Joost van der Maaten, Theofani Antoniou, María José Jiménez, Laszlo Szegedi, Manfred Seeberger, Joachim M Erb, Rajni Singh, Vera von Dossow, Purificación Matute, Peter Rosseel, Nandor Marczin, Giovanni Landoni, Kirstin Wilkinson, Paul Diprose, Chirojit Mukherjee, Gianluca Paternoster, Mohamed R El-Tahan,

Affiliations

  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. Electronic address: [email protected].
  2. Department of Intensive Care, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  3. Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Maastricht UMC, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
  4. Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
  5. Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St. James's, University of Leeds, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom.
  6. University Department of Fundamental and Applied Medical Sciences and Clinical Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Ghent, Belgium.
  7. Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy.
  8. Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases Dedinje, School of Medicine University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
  9. Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Hospital Universitari Bellvitge, Barcelona, Grupo Policlinica, Ibiza, Spain.
  10. Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Hospital Dr. Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain.
  11. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France; Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Arnaud De Villeneuve, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
  12. Clinique Du Millenaire, Montpellier, France.
  13. Institute of Anesthesiology, University and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
  14. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, University General Hospital Consortium of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
  15. Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
  16. Department of Anesthesiology, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands.
  17. Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece.
  18. Academy of Medical Science and Health of Catalunya and Balears, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Centro Médico Teknon, Barcelona, Spain.
  19. Department of Anesthesiology, C.U.B., Brussels University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
  20. Department of Anesthesia, University Hospital Basel, Basel, and Klinik Hirslanden Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
  21. Department of Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  22. Department of Anesthesiology, Heart Center Leipzig, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
  23. Institute of Anesthesiology, German Heart and Diabetes Center Bad Oeynhausen, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
  24. Servicio de Anestesiología y Reanimación, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
  25. Departments of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, University Hospital Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
  26. Section of Anesthetics, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; Department of Anesthesia, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Harefield Hospital, Harefield, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
  27. Anesthesia and Intensive Care Department, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
  28. Department of Anesthesia & Intensive Care, Helios Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  29. Cardiac Anesthesia and Critical Care, University Hospital Southampton, Tremona Road, Southampton, United Kingdom.
  30. Division of Cardiac Resuscitation, Cardiovascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care, San Carlo Hospital, Potenza, Italy.
  31. Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Anesthesia, Surgical Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, College of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt; Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

PMID: 31948892 DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2019.12.014

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.

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Keywords: anesthesia; cardiac; fellowship; thoracic; training; vascular

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