Fellowship in CTVA

EACTA CTVA Curriculum and White Paper

The EACTA Curriculum is published in the JCVA as follows:

European Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology (EACTA) Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia Fellowship Curriculum: First Edition

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. October 2, 2020

Click here to download the three 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	2	Click here	Anna Flo Forner Rajni Singh	anaesthesie.herzzentrum[at]helios-kliniken.de
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, UK	12 months for basic training in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, opt. additional 12 months for advanced training in cardiac and thoracic anaesthesia, ICU and Echo	1-4	Click here	Kirstin Wilkinson Jonathan Huber	kirstin.wilkinson[at]uhs.nhs.uk
University Hospital Basel (Switzerland)	24 months	1	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	3	Click here	Giovanni Landoni	landoni.giovanni[at]hsr.it
University of Bern (Switzerland)	24 months	1	Click here	Gabor Erdoes	gabor.erdoes[at]insel.ch
Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center (Athens, Greece)	12 months	2	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	3 trainees per training programme per year	Click here	Caetano Nigro Neto	caenigro[at]uol.com.br
Maastricht University Medical Centre (Limburg, The Netherlands)	12 months	1	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	2 trainees per training programme per year	Click here	Vera von Dossow	vvondossow[at]hdz-nrw.de
Heart Center of the Technical University of Dresden (Dresden, Germany)	12 months	1	Click here	Jens Fassl	jens.fassl[at]herzzentrum-dresden.com
Clinique du Millénaire and Clinique Clémentville (Montpellier, France)	12 months	1	Click here	Philippe Burtin	philippe.burtin[at]cegetel.net
University Hospitals Leuven (Leuven, Belgium)	12 months Basic Fellowship in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia	1	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	1	Click here	Massimo Baiocchi Maria Benedetto	massimo.baiocchi[at]aosp.bo.it mariabenedettoanestetista[at]gmail.com

Information for Hosting Centres

Is your centre interested to host the fellowship programme? Click here to fill the application form and submit it.
For the tasks required by the Hosting Centres, click here.
For the sequence of procedures for EACTA Exit Interviews, click here.
For the process for appealing the decisions of an examiner or their professional conduct during an exit interview from an EACTA Fellowship, click here.
For the EACTA Policy for Dealing with the Non-Compliant Host Centres: A staged approach policy in escalating issues with non-compliant host centres for EACTA Fellowship Programs, click here.

First draft of the EACTA-ESA Consensus document (no longer applicable)

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.

Recent (re)accreditations