Gabor Erdoes MD, PhD , Patrick F. Wouters MD, PhD , R. Peter Alston MD, FFRCA, FFPMRCA, FFICM , Jan-Uwe Schreiber MD, PhD , Dominique Bettex MD , Theofani Antoniou MD, PhD , Maria Benedetto MD, PhD , Stefaan Bouchez MD , Laszlo Szegedi MD, PhD , Kirstin Wilkinson MB BS , Giovanni Landoni MD , Sascha Treskatsch MD , Purificacio ́n Matute MD, PhD ,Vera von Dossow MD , Dieter Van Beersel MD , Dragana Unic-Stojanovic MD, PhD , Mona Momeni MD , Philippe Gaudard MD , Andrea Szekely MD, PhD , Philippe Burtin MD , Anna Flo-Forner MD , Caetano Nigro Neto MD, PhD , Jens Fassl MD, PhD, FASE , Manuel Granell MD, PhD , Joachim M. Erb MD , Ricard Navarro-Ripoll MD, PhD , Marc Vives MD, PhD , Fawzia Aboul Fetouh MD , Simon J. Howell MD , Nandor Marczin MD, PhD , Alberto Hernandez Martinez MD, PhD , Alain Vuylsteke MD , Hossam El-Ashmawi MD , Blanca Martinez Lopez de Arroyabe MD, PhD , Chirojit Mukherjee MD, PhD , Steffen Rex MD, PhD , Gianluca Paternoster MD, PhD , Fabio Guarracino MD , Mohamed R. El-Tahan MD
Publication stage: In Press Corrected Proof
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
Published online: May 20, 2022
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2022.05.022
Effective since April 12, 2022
Science direct link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105307702200369X
Click here to read the Second Edition of the EACTAIC Adult Fellowship Curriculum
The European Association of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (EACTAIC) Curriculum is published in the JCVA as follows:
Gabor Erdoes, Alain Vuylsteke, Jan-Uwe Schreiber, 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, the Education and Subspecialty Committees of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology (EACTA)
Publication stage: In Press Corrected Proof
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
Published online: February 12, 2020
Copyrights are reserved for Elsevier.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2019.12.014
Effective since April 21, 2019
Science direct link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053077019312686
Click here to read the Curriculum
For the White Paper of the Board of Directors for Approving the Hosting Centres for the EACTA CTVA Fellowship Programme, click here. – Upd. April 12, 2022
EACTAIC supports well-grounded training in adult cardiothoracic and vascular anaesthesia at 15 accredited educational facilities through harmonizing the training and education processes.
The EACTAIC Fellowship Programme is open to all physicians irrespective of their country of origin, religion, gender or sexual orientation.
Why should I join the EACTAIC Fellowship Programme?
By joining the EACTAIC Fellowship Programme at any of the accredited EACTAIC hosting centres, you will
- develop your professional skills (both technical and non-technical);
- have the opportunity for hands-on experience at some of the very specialized worldwide high-volume European and non-European EACTAIC hosting centres in cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgery that would inspire your confidence in making your professional dreams happen;
- have the opportunity to exchange ideas and experience with mentors, and learn from peer-to-peer through a well-structured standard fellowship programme among the 15 EACTAIC hostings centres for the Fellowship programme;
- develop your interpersonal communications with patients, patients’ relatives, and colleagues at professional multidisciplinary teams;
- advance your professional development by gaining new work experience that can help you reaching goals in your career;
- develop cross-cultural competency and awareness;
- learn how to provide self-assessment and reflective inputs on the educational process and on the programme itself;
- widen your professional and friendly network with worldwide colleagues through the EACTAIC community;
- increase your opportunities for standing out for candidacy for jobs and academic and career promotions at either your home centre or other centres.
What to expect joining the EACTAIC Fellowship Programmes?
Following completing your national specialization in general anaesthesia, that would be the right time to think about completing an additional one or two fellowship years of speciality training in specific areas as follows:
(1) During the first ‘mandatory’ basic training year, you would be involved in the direct care of patients undergoing cardiac, thoracic, and vascular anaesthesia, interventional cardiology. You would also have dedicated training rotations in the critical care units, perfusion technique, extracorporeal life support, and transoesophageal transthoracic echocardiography.
(2) The second ‘optional’ advanced fellowship year includes 3 to 6 months modules to deliver a high level of training in cardiac, thoracic, and vascular anaesthesia, critical care medicine, echocardiography, heart-lung transplantation, organization, and research. These advanced modules would deepen and extend your technical and non-technical skills acquired during the basic EACTAIC Fellowship training.
Click here to download the four monthly report & evaluation for centre directors
CTVA fellowships are currently offered in the following hosting centres (in chronologic order as per accreditation):
| Host centre | Training period | Available posts per annum | More details | Programme director(s) | Contact |
| Leipzig Heart Centre (Herzzentrum Leipzig) (Germany) | 12 mandatory training months in Cardiac Anaesthesia followed with an optional 2nd year in Advanced Cardiac Anaesthesia, ICU and paediatric cardiac anaesthesia | Two trainees for each of the basic and advanced training programmes per year | Click here | Anna Flo Forner Rajni Singh |
anaesthesie.herzzentrum[at]helios-kliniken.de |
| University Hospital Basel (Switzerland) |
12 months Basic Fellowship in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia and 12 months Advanced Fellowship Programmes in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia |
One trainee for each of the basic and advanced training programmes per year | Click here | Joachim Erb Tobias Jan Steiner |
joachim.Erb[at]usb.ch tobiasjan.steiner[at]usb.ch |
| Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (Milan, Italy) | 12 months for basic training in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, opt. additional 12 months for advanced training in cardiac, vascular and thoracic anaesthesia, ICU and Echo | Five trainees for the basic and three trainees for the advanced training programmes per year | Click here | Giovanni Landoni | landoni.giovanni[at]hsr.it |
| Inselspital, University Hospital Bern (Switzerland) | 12 months Basic Fellowship in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia and 12 months Advanced Fellowship Programmes in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia |
One trainee per training programme per year | Click here | Gabor Erdoes | gabor.erdoes[at]insel.ch |
| Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center (Athens, Greece) |
12 months | Two trainees for the basic programme per year | Click here | Theofani Antoniou | antoniou[at]ocsc.gr |
| Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology (São Paulo, Brazil) |
12 months Basic Fellowship in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia with a 2nd optional training year in advanced cardiac, anaesthesia, echocardiography and research | Six trainees for the basic and one trainee for the advanced training programmes per year | Click here | Caetano Nigro Neto | caenigro[at]uol.com.br |
| Maastricht University Medical Centre (Limburg, The Netherlands) | 12 months | One trainee for the basic programme per year | Click here | Jan-Uwe Schreiber | j.schreiber[at]mumc.nl |
| Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, University Hospital of Ruhr-University Bochum Bad Oeynhausen (Germany) | 12 months Basic Fellowship in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia with a 2nd optional training year in advanced cardiac, thoracic and vascular anaesthesia and IC, echocardiography and research |
Three trainees for each of the basic and advanced training programmes per year | Click here | Vera von Dossow | vvondossow[at]hdz-nrw.de |
| Heart Center of the Technical University of Dresden (Dresden, Germany) | 12 months | One trainee for the basic programme per year | Click here | Jens Fassl | jens.fassl[at]herzzentrum-dresden.com |
| University Hospitals Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) |
12 months Basic Fellowship in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia | Two trainees for the basic training programme per year | Click here | Dieter Von Beersel An Schrijvers |
dieter.vanbeersel[at]uzleuven.be an.schrijvers[at]uzleuven.be |
| Sant’Orsola University Hospital (Bologna, Italy) |
12 months Basic Fellowship in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia | One trainee for the basic programme per year | Click here | Massimo Baiocchi Maria Benedetto |
massimo.baiocchi[at]aosp.bo.it mariabenedettoanestetista[at]gmail.com |
| Harefield Hospital, Royal Brompton, and Harefield Hospitals Care (London, the UK) |
12 months Basic Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and 12 months Advanced Fellowship Programmes in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia | One trainee for the basic and two trainees for the advanced training programmes per year | Click here | Nandor Marczin Katarina Lenartova |
n.marczin[at]rbht.nhs.uk n.marczin[at]imperial.ac.uk k.lenartova[at]rbht.nhs.uk |
| OLV Clinic Aalst (Aalst, Belgium) | 12 months Basic Fellowship in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia | One trainee for the basic programme per year | Click here | Stefaan Bouchez | stefaan.bouchez[at]olvz-aalst.be |
| University of Bonn (Bonn, Germany) | Basic Fellowship in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia with a 2nd optional training year in advanced cardiac, thoracic and vascular anaesthesia and intensive care and research | One trainee for each of the basic and advanced training programmes per year | Click here | Marc Rohner | marc.rohner[at]ukbonn.de |
Is your centre interested to host the fellowship programme? Click here to fill the application form and submit it
[***Important: EACTAIC will not consider applications with removed headings, sections, or cells. Please, don’t change the current format and content of the application].
For the tasks required by the Hosting Centres, click here.
For the sequence of procedures for EACTAIC Exit Interviews, click here.
For the process for appealing the decisions of an examiner or their professional conduct during an exit interview from an EACTAIC Fellowship, click here.
For the EACTAIC Policy for Dealing with the Non-Compliant Host Centres: A staged approach policy in escalating issues with non-compliant host centres for EACTAIC Fellowship Programs, click here.
EACTAIC approved the solutions suggested to cope with the interrupted fellowship training during the COVID-19 pandemic or similar unforeseen crisis. The regulation is effective from October 15, 2021; click here to read it.
For the draft of the first EACTA-ESA Consensus Document (Proposal for Certification of EACTA Fellowship Programme in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia by Feneck et al) – now outdated and not valid, click here.
