Denton Cooley, founder of the Texas Heart Institute, was the first US surgeon to perform a heart transplant and implant an artificial heart. He discusses his incredible career with Mohamad Bashir in a new CTSNet interview.
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Education
August 14, 2015
Edward Bender reviews a new iBook from the cardiac surgery team at the University of Washington. Cardiopulmonary Bypass: A Primer is a comprehensive resource for CT surgeons and allied health personnel.
August 6, 2015
Filmed at the 2015 STS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, a panel of experts discusses how the heart team should respond to cardiac arrests that occur after cardiac surgery.
July 3, 2015
Work/life balance and good rhythm are possible in cardiothoracic surgery! Faculty members from the University of Washington show off their moves at a recent WTSA event.
June 18, 2015
In this STSA President's Invited Lecture given at the 2014 STSA Annual Meeting, David Shahian discusses Ernest Codman’s vision of enhancing quality in health care, noting that 100 years later some of Dr. Codman's key principles still remain strongly relevant.
June 17, 2015
Robert Sade moderates a debate with Richard Ohye and James Jaggers regarding the performance of surgery by cardiothoracic surgery residents.
June 11, 2015
Douglas Wood, Fawwaz Shaw, Emily Farkas, and Nahush Mokadam discuss work-life balance within the cardiothoracic surgery specialty.
June 4, 2015
This roundtable discussion, filmed at the 2015 STS Annual Meeting, focuses on the different training paths open to cardiothoracic surgery residents in the United States.
May 19, 2015
Competence-based rather than time-based surgical education will likely become the norm in the next decade. The authors reviewed current methods for assessing technical competence in trainees. No clear definition of technical competence was evident. Instruments used for assessment were originally designed to assess skill rather than competence. Th
May 18, 2015
A recent picture of a junior doctor asleep while at work in a Monterrey, Mexico hospital has sparked an online conversation about the importance of sleep for doctors.