How to become a successful Surgical Investigator: Tools & Techniques
The purpose of this course is to teach practical techniques and skills that are necessary to meet the stringent criteria for applications and to obtain funding for grants. The course will focus on grant writing, statistics and effective communication.
Acquired Cardiac Disease
Congenital Heart Disease
Thoracic Disease
Vascular Disease
Level 3
Acquired Cardiac Disease
Covering advanced surgical techniques and strategies across the spectrum of acquired cardiac surgery and working on prevalent issues faced by acquired cardiac surgeons today. The domain’s purpose is to lead, advise and support EACTS activities in all matters concerned with acquired cardiac diseases including educational output, research and training, and guidelines.
Congenital Heart Disease
Covering advanced surgical techniques and strategies across the spectrum of congenital cardiac surgery and working on prevalent issues faced by congenital surgeons today.
Thoracic Disease
Covering advanced surgical techniques and strategies across the spectrum of thoracic surgery and working on prevalent issues faced by thoracic surgeons today.
Vascular Disease
Covering advanced surgical techniques and strategies across the spectrum of vascular surgery and working on prevalent issues faced by vascular surgeons today.
Learning Objectives
- Finding grant and funding opportunities
- How to present yourself and your work
- Interaction with industry
- Critical review skills for grant proposals
- Communicating your science effectively
- Conflict of interest and scientific fraud
- Attendees will have the opportunity to review and dissect a mock grant proposal and in an interactive setting, determine whether the grant should be funded
Course Programme
Programme and faculty subject to change.
Case Corner – Scientific Edition: The Surgeon and The Scientist
EACTS is pleased to announce the return of our highly successful Case Corners for 2024. New topics, new cases, by residents for residents.
MSc Statistics for Clinical Trials at UCL – 2024/25
This Fellowship will allow the successful candidate to study Statistics in the context of clinical trials by completing the online MSc Statistics for Clinical Trials at University College London.
Acquired Cardiac Disease
Congenital Heart Disease
Thoracic Disease
Research
Acquired Cardiac Disease
Covering advanced surgical techniques and strategies across the spectrum of acquired cardiac surgery and working on prevalent issues faced by acquired cardiac surgeons today. The domain’s purpose is to lead, advise and support EACTS activities in all matters concerned with acquired cardiac diseases including educational output, research and training, and guidelines.
Congenital Heart Disease
Covering advanced surgical techniques and strategies across the spectrum of congenital cardiac surgery and working on prevalent issues faced by congenital surgeons today.
Thoracic Disease
Covering advanced surgical techniques and strategies across the spectrum of thoracic surgery and working on prevalent issues faced by thoracic surgeons today.
The art of guidelines: merging science, critical review and clinical experience
In this episode, our hosts Can Gollmann-Tepeköylü and Miia L Lehtinen, discuss the importance and practical challenges of developing joint Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) with this month’s speakers Milan Milojevic (EACTS CPG Committee Chair) and Faisal Bakaeen (AATS Cardiac CP Standards Committee Co-Chair).
EACTS Arrhythmia Course
2 day programme of interactive lectures, live-in-a-box videos and live surgical cases.
