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European Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology and Intensive Care (EACTAIC) Fellowship Curriculum: Second Edition. Scientific Publication

Sep 1, 2022 | Magazine: Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Gabor Erdoes  1 , Patrick F Wouters  2 , R Peter Alston  3 , Jan-Uwe Schreiber  4 , Dominique Bettex  5 , Theofani Antoniou  6 , Maria Benedetto  7 , Stefaan Bouchez  8 , Laszlo Szegedi  9 , Kirstin Wilkinson  10 , Giovanni Landoni  11 , Sascha Treskatsch  12 , Purificación Matute  13 , Vera von Dossow  14 , Dieter Van Beersel  15 , Dragana Unic-Stojanovic  16 , Mona Momeni  17 , Philippe Gaudard  18 , Andrea Szekely  19 , Philippe Burtin  20 , Anna Flo-Forner  21 , Caetano Nigro Neto  22 , Jens Fassl  23 , Manuel Granell  24 , Joachim M Erb  25 , Ricard Navarro-Ripoll  26 , Marc Vives  27 , Fawzia Aboul Fetouh  28 , Simon J Howell  29 , Nandor Marczin  30 , Alberto Hernandez Martinez  31 , Alain Vuylsteke  32 , Hossam El-Ashmawi  33 , Blanca Martinez Lopez de Arroyabe  34 , Chirojit Mukherjee  35 , Steffen Rex  15 , Gianluca Paternoster  36 , Fabio Guarracino  37 , Mohamed R El-Tahan  38


This document represents the first update of the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia Fellowship Curriculum of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care. After obtaining feedback from exit interviews with fellows in training, graduate fellows, and program directors, 2 modified online Delphi procedures with questionnaires were conducted. A consensus was reached when two-thirds of responding committee members gave green or yellow ratings on a traffic light system, and >70% indicated strong agreement or agreement on a 5-point Likert scale. The new regulations include the following: (1) more flexibility in the fellows` rotation, as long as the total number of days, rotations, and cases are completed during the training year; (2) recommendation for strict compliance with national working-time guidelines; (3) no extension of fellowship training to compensate for annual and/or sick leave, unless the required minimum number of cases and rotations are not reached; (4) interruption of fellowship training for >12 months is allowed for personal or medical reasons; (5) introduction of a checklist for quantitative assessment of standard clinical skills; (6) recommendations for a uniform structure of exit interviews; (7) possibility of a 1-month training rotation in a postanesthesia care unit instead of an intensive care unit; and (8) provided all other requirements have been met, the allowance of progression from the basic training year to the advanced fellowship training year without first passing the transesophageal echocardiography examination.

CITATION J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2022 Sep;36(9):3483-3500. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2022.05.022. Epub 2022 May 21.