The European Association of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (EACTAIC) Curriculum is published in the JCVA as follows:
European Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology and Intensive Care (EACTAIC) Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia Fellowship Curriculum: First Edition
M.R. El-Tahan, G. Erdoes, J. van der Maaten, K. Wilkinson, T. Kousi, T. Antoniou, V. von Dossow, C. Nigro Neto, E. Schindler, A. Székely, A. Flo Forner, P.F. Wouters, F. Guarracino, P. Burtin, D. Unic-Stojanovic, J.-U. Schreiber, P. Matute, F. Aboulfetouh, R. Navarro-Ripoll, J. Fassl, D. Bettex, M. Benedetto, L. Szegedi, R.P. Alston, G. Landoni, M. Granell, P. Gaudard, S. Treskatsch, D. Van Beersel, A. Vuylsteke, S. Howell, A.R. Janai, A. Hernandez Martinez, J.M. Erb, M. Vives, H. El-Ashmawi, S. Rex, C. Mukherjee, G. Paternoster, M. Momeni
The Education Committee and Paediatric and Congenital Subspecialty Committees of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology and Intensive Care (EACTAIC)
Publication stage: In Press Corrected Proof
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
Published online: August 8, 2021
Copyrights are reserved for Elsevier.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2021.08.009
Effective since June 16, 2021
Science Direct link
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. July 26, 2021
Click here to download the four monthly report & evaluation for centre directors and the longbook template
| Host centre | Training period | Available posts per annum | More details | Programme director(s) | Contact |
| University of Bonn (Bonn, Germany) | 12 training months in Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia | Three positions per year | Click here | Ehrenfried Schindler | ehrenfried.schindler[at]ukbonn.de |
| Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology (Sao Paulo, Brazil) | 12 training months in Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia | Three positions per year | Click here | Caetano Nigro Neto | caenigro[at]uol.com.br |
| Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, University Hospital of Ruhr-University Bochum Bad Oeynhausen (Germany) | 12 training months in Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia | Two position per year | Click here | Andreas Koster Vera von Dossow |
akoster[at]hdz-nrw.de vvondossow[at]hdz-nrw.de |
| Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre (Athens, Greece) | 12 training months in Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia | One position per year | Click here | Theofili Kousi | theokousi[at]yahoo.gr |
Is your centre interested in hosting 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 PCA Fellowship Programmes, 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.