Transcript Surgical Training and Manpower Committee

Surgical Training and
Manpower Committee
Report to Council
21st February 2009
J R Sadaba
Summary
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New committee members
New structure of the committee
Relations with the TSRA
Current activities
– Annual residents meeting
– Master Plan for Training
– Web site
• Planned activities
– Manpower survey
– Working Time Directive Survey
– Integrated European Training Programme
New Committee Members
• The terms of six of the members finalised last year:
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Jolanda Kluin
Maciej Kolowca
Michael Gorlitzer
Max Codispoti
Juan Comas
Pieter Kappetein
• Three new trainee members joined in September
• Mahmoud Loubani (Birmingham)
• Patrick Myers (Geneva)
• Peyman Sardari Nia (Braaschat).
• Proposed new senior member:
• David O’Regan (Leeds)
New Committee Structure
• In order to comply with the new structure
of EACTS, one trainee is proposed to
represent the committee in each of the
four domains.
– Sacha Salzber: Adult cardiac
– Matthias Siepe: Congenital
– Peyman Sardari Nia: Thoracic
– Mahmoud Loubani: Vascular
Relations with the TSRA - I
• Dr Faraz Kerendi, as President of the TSRA, attended
the committee meeting held in Lisbon.
• Approval was obtained from Council in order to have the
past President of TRSA (International relations officer)
as ex-officio member of the STMP committee. This is a
yearly rolling post.
• Likewise, the EACTS trainees' representative is member
of the TSRA executive committee and will attend at least
one of their meetings every year.
• Matthias Siepe attended a TSRA meeting during the
STS meeting (see report here).
Relations with the TSRA - II
• Development of an Exchange Programme
between North America (USA and
Canada) and Europe.
– To identify units (“centres of excellence” in
particular techniques or procedures ) willing to
accept trainees for variable periods of time
– Difficulties for European residents to meet the
US requirements for fellowships
(STS/AATS/EACTS sponsored fellowships?)
– Identify opportunities for research positions
Relations with the TSRA-III
• International Trainees Association. It was
decided to concentrate on issues affecting
specifically trainees in the US and Europe
and postpone this project for the time
being
EACTS Master Plan for Training
and Certification
• Various meetings took place during the annual
meeting in Lisbon in which the MP was
explained to different groups of EACTS
members (Sunday lunch time session,
Residents meeting, Meeting with representative
of National Societies, Committee Chairs).
• Role of MPST committee:
– The STMP committee will from now on work
independently from the Master Plan committee,
contributing with suggestions, identifying opportunities
and assisting with assigned tasks
Manpower Survey
• Little progress in the committee's attempt to
quantify the number of trainees in Europe. It was
decided to carry out the survey planned in our
previous meeting. Nevertheless, the plan was
superseded by the announcement by Dr
Alessandro Fabbri from Verona during the
Meeting of National Societies of his proposal to
conduct a Europe wide survey on number of
cardiac units, facilities, number of surgeons etc.
• Proposal to add queries on training and
research facilities
Website
• Patrick Myers to be in charge of the
Trainees Website
Residents Meeting-I
• Last year's Residents Meeting suffered
from a less than expected audience.The
original speaker (Isabelle Tran) was
unable to attend. A last minute
arrangement was to instead, discuss the
MP for training and certification.
• This year’s meeting will be held on
Monday at 18:00 hrs and will be followed
by the Residents Dinner
Residents Meeting- II
• Title: “Pros and cons of a hierarchical system
within a Cardio-Thoracic surgical department”
• Speakers
– Aart Brutel de la Riviere: The crew and the skipper
– Marko Turina: How to create a successful surgical
unit
– Nik Baerten (Pantopicon company): Dilbert at the
bazaar: new cocktails of organization
– Paul Sergant with his son Gregory Sergeant: The
world is flat
• Sponsored by Medtronic
• Strong advertising
Planned Activities
• Interface with domains
• In conjunction with TSRA
– Exchange programme
• Re activation of proposal for an Integrated
European Training Programme
• Manpower survey
• European Working Time Directive survey
• Website re-development
• Residents meeting
• Appointment of chairman