EACTS Course - Applied Science for Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons

The EACTS International Cooperation Committee is organizing a two and a half day course in Prague April 17 - 19, 2008. This course will be organized as a seminar, with short introductory lectures and practical, mentored activities. Leading experts in the field will address the topics, and will moderate practical demonstrations. Main topics are:

 - Preparing an abstract

 - Writing a scientific paper

 - Performing statistical analysis
 
 - Researching and extracting relevant literature

 - Delivering a scientific lecture

 - Organizing research

This course is primarily oriented towards academic surgeons and related specialists, who are pursuing or planning the scientific career in the field of cardio-thoracic surgery. The number of attendees will be limited, to permit the individual tutoring. Personal notebook with wireless internet capability is highly recommended. Registered participants will have access to a course home page, where the educational material and planned tests will be deposited; this will form the basis for mentored exercises during the course.

Scientific programme: Jarle Vaage, MD,
Local organizing committee: Jan Pirk, MD Course organization: Marko Turina, MD

Invited Faculty:

Ian Beecroft
EJCTS/ICVTS/MMCTS Managing Editor
EJCTS/ICVTS/MMCTS Editorial Office,
Martigny, Switzerland

Tim Clayton
Senior lecturer in Medical Statistics
Medical Statistics Unit
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London, UK

Paul Sergeant
Cardiac Surgery Department
Gasthuisberg University Hospital
Leuven, Belgium

Andy Wechsler
Stanley K. Brockman Professor and Chairman Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Drexel University College of Medicine. Past Editor, The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Philadelphia, USA

Polly Siegel
HighWire Press
Stanford University Library
Stanford CA, USA

PROGRAMME

REGISTRATION & ACCOMMODATION 

GENERAL INFORMATION 

COURSE MATERIAL - registered participants only