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Villa Elios, Bergamo, Italy E-mail: info@eacts.co.uk |
MISSION STATEMENT
The education of surgeons is primarily the task of their parent departments. In a busy clinical environment, it is often not easy to provide young surgeons-in-training with the intellectual knowledge necessary to be on top of subjects. As a result, there is a need for a comprehensive way to offer everybody undergoing speciality training an adequate background.
The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) has felt this need very keenly. Thus, it has created the European School for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, ESCTS, providing tuition on the curriculum necessary to pass the examination of The European Board of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons. Participants in the Courses are recommended to take the Board examination; however, it is not a requirement.
The Council of the EACTS believe that the School is a great step forward towards a higher level of theoretical knowledge. It will give postgraduate education a face; it will enhance friendship among colleagues and -above all- benefit our patients. All cardio-thoracic colleagues, heads of departments, National Specialty Societies and those responsible for the development of new colleagues are therefore encouraged to send their juniors to the School.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The creation of the School in Bergamo has largely been an initiative of Lucio Parenzan. He has secured the use, free-of-charge, of the refurbished Villa Elios.
The owners of the Villa Elios are the Reale Mutua Insurance Company and the Techint Group via the Gavazzeni Clinic.
The donors of the financial grants are EACTS, the Cariplo Foundation, Milan and IBM Italy.
A Committee consisting of Hans Borst, Ottavio Alfieri, Hans Huysmans, Pieter Kappetein, Walter Klepetko, Roberto Lorusso, Lucio Parenzan, Erino A Rendina, Joachim Schäfers, Jarda Stark and Torkel Åberg have worked out the details and the curricula. We are grateful for all their hard work
The EACTS acknowledge their magnanimity.