Application
You are eligible to apply for the courses if you have the intention of becoming a cardio/thoracic surgeon and are working as a junior surgeon-in-training at a Cardio/Thoracic Department. Application Form (pdf)The documents required are the following:
- Brief CV
- Recent photo
- Copy of national medical diploma
- List of publications and presentations
- Optional: Summary of operational experience
Registration and inquiries:
EACTS Executive Secretariat3 Park Street, Windsor, Berks SL4 1 LU, UK
Tel: + 44 (0)1753 832166, Fax: +44 (0)1753 620 407
E-mail: info@eacts.co.uk Website: www.eacts.org
Costs
The Course fee for an entire week will be € 900 including accommodation, meals, local bus tickets and teaching materials. An administration charge of € 25 must accompany all applications. The fee does not include travel to and from Bergamo.
Accommodation will normally be at the Episcopal Seminario, situated in the Old City ("Città Alta") at the top of the Bergamo hill.
Breakfast will be served at the Seminario, luncheon at the hospital near the Villa Elios and dinner at a local restaurant in Città Alta using tickets. All meals and coffees during breaks are included in the course fee.
Teaching hours are normally from 08:30 till 18:00 with a break for lunch. On Saturday there is a written examination.
Travel in the City is by bus (a complimentary ticket for one week will be provided).
Venue
Villa Elios
The teaching in the European School for Cardio-thoracic Surgery will be given at the Villa Elios, which has recently been refurbished for this purpose. It is a magnificent Northern Italian mansion with 2 lecture theatres, library, guest rooms, study rooms, computer rooms etc. inside a beautiful park.
Villa Elios
Via Gavazzeni 21
24125 Bergamo, Italy
Tel. + 39 035 311325
Fax + 39 035 311325
Email: escts.bg@gavazzeni.it
Bergamo
Bergamo was founded on a hill on the edge of the outlying Orobic hills between the mouths of the Brembana and Seriana valleys. The first prehistoric settlement sprang up on the extreme eastern edge of the mountain range, which spread out, for nearly six kilometres in an east-westerly direction between the rivers Serio and Brembo. The settlement was first Gallic. The roman Bergamo was also built on this hill, with a continuity that despite the extremely restricted space, owes its founding its extremely important strategic role played by the town at the entrance to the Seriana and Brembana valleys, the only access to the Orobie mountain range. In the Middle Ages rows and rows of houses sprang up along the roadsides leading down onto the plains. These all became little villages, which were separated from the main nucleus of the city by a ring of walls, erected in the sixteenth century. Since then Bergamo has a double-faced appearance, with the ancient quarters on high and the modern part below Bergamo became a free municipality in the Lombard League (12th century) before submitting to the Visconti Signoria, and from 1428 to 1796 formed part of the Venetian Republic. In this period the town underwent considerable economic expansion. After the brief Napoleonic Cisalpine Republic (1797-1814), it became part of Habsburg Lombard-Venetia until freed by Garibaldi's soldiers in 1859.
Bergamo Alta ("Città Alta"), the oldest part of the town with a wealth of history and art, stands on a hill (365 m.) a hundred metres or so above the plain, where Bergamo Bassa (249 m.) lies.
Monuments: The Colleoni chapel, masterpiece of the Lombard Renaissance (housing frescoes by Tiepolo), Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore (12th century), Palazzo della Ragione (12th century, altered in the 16th century), Duomo, Torre del Comune (tower). Though gravitating towards nearby Milan, Bergamo's economy is characterized by the presence of a well-defined industrial sector, active in engineering, textiles, chemicals, food and building materials.
Events: International jazz festival (March-April), opera season at Teatro Donizetti, international piano festival (April-June), Baroque music concerts (Autumn), `Rogo della vecchia' (Lent).
Famous People: Gaetano Donizetti (musician, 1797-1848),
Costantino Beltrami (explorer, 1779-1856), Andrea Previtali (artist, 1470-1528), Gerolamo Tiraboschi (man of letters, 17311794), Bartolomeo Colleoni (military leader, 1400-1475), Lorenzo Lotto (1480-1556), Pope John XXIII (the famous `Papa Giovanni', 1881-1963).
Cultural Institutions: Accademia Carrara (gallery with paintings by Mantegna, Bellini, Tintoretto, Raffaello and others), Museo Donizettiano, Museo Archeologico and Museo del Risorgimento (museums), libraries, the university.
In the Province: Dalmine (steel industry), Lovere (steel industry), Foppolo (tourism), San Pellegrino Terme (thermal spa), Treviglio, Sotto il Monte (birthplace of Pope John XXIII
Travel Details
By Air:
Orio al Serio Airport - Bergamo
Tel. +39-035-326111
Information Office: tel. +39-035-326323
http://www.sacbo.it/inglese/homepage.htm
Taxi service in airport from 6.30 a.m. to 12.00 p.m., tel. +39-035-313122
Malpensa Airport - Milan
http://www.malpensa-airport.com/
a) From Malpensa to Milan: Malpensa Express Train to Cadorna Railway Station - Milan
Infoline +39 02 27763 (automatic reply service)
+39 02 84477500 (7.00-20.00, voice service)
http://www.ferrovienord.it/webmxp/ing/frame-orari-ing.htm
From Milan to Bergamo: see "By Bus" below from stazione Garibaldi to Bergamo by Autostradale Bus
b) From Malpensa to Milan: Malpensa Shuttle to Stazione Centrale - Milan
Information Service +39 02 58583185
http://www.airpullman.com/orari/milano.htm
From Milan to Bergamo: see "By Bus" below from Stazione Centrale to Bergamo by Autostradale Bus or by train to Railway Station - Bergamo
Linate Airport - Milan (Closest Airport Option)
http://www.sea-aeroportimilano.it/Eng/linate
From Linate to Stazione Centrale - Milan by taxi or by STAM Bus:
http://www.sea-aeroportimilano.it/Linate/collegamenti/collegamenti.htm
From Milan to Bergamo: see "By Bus" below from Stazione Centrale to Bergamo by Autostradale Bus or by train to Railway Station - Bergamo
By Car:
Motorway A4 (E13) Milano-Venezia
Exit Bergamo
By Train:
Ferrovie dello Stato FF.SS. http://www.fs-on-line.com/index.html p.le Marconi - Bergamo
Ticket office and Information office: tel. +39-035-247950
By Bus:
Autostradale
http://www.autostradale.com/orari/orari/Milano_Bergamo.htm
Buses from Milan to Bergamo
Bergamo, p.le Marconi, tel. +39-035-244354
Milan, stazione Garibaldi, tel. +39-02-801161
Arrival is usually on Sunday; departure on Saturday afternoon.