Current Status of Training and Certification for Congenital Heart Surgery Around the World: Proceedings of the Meetings of the Global Council on Education for Congenital Heart Surgery of the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery

Tchervenkov CI 1 , Herbst C 2 , Jacobs JP 3 , Al-Halees Z 4 , Edwin F 5 , Dearani JA 6 Show all authors , Finucane K 7 , Sandoval N 8 , Sarris GE 9 , Fragata J 10 , Abdulgani HB 11 , Arboleda M 12 , Bacha EA 13 , Barron DJ 14 , Becker P 15 , Boumzebra D 16 , Cervantes J 17 , Elgamal A 18 , Helvind MH 19 , Iyer KS 20 , Jatene MB 21 , Jun TG 22 , Kirklin JK 23 , Kreutzer C 24 , Lee C 25 , Lotto AA 26 , Manuel V 27 , Maruszewski B 28 , Najm H 29 , Overman D 30 , Rahmat B 31 , Reddy D 32 , Sakamoto K 33 , Samankatiwat P 34 , Sivalingam S 35 , St Louis JD 36 , Stellin G 37 , Stephens EH 6 , Tretter JT 38 , Truong NLT 39 , Tweddell JS 40 , Vida V 37 , Vosloo S 41 , Zhang H 42 , Zheleva B 43 , Jonas RA 44

Affiliations 

  • 1 Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, 10040The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • 2 Department of Cardiac Surgery, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, 27271Medical University of Vienna, Austria
  • 3 Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
  • 4 Heart Center, 37852King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • 5 National Cardiothoracic Centre, Accra, Ghana
  • 6 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
  • 7 58991Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
  • 8 Department of Cardiac Surgery, Fundacion Cardioinfantil-Instituto de Cardiologia, Bogota, Colombia
  • 9 Athens Heart Surgery Institute, Athens, Greece
  • 10 Cardiothoracic Surgery, Santa Marta Hospital, NOVA Medical School, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 11 Medika Permata Hijau Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • 12 Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Instituto Nacional Cardiovascular (INCOR), Lima, Peru
  • 13 Department of Surgery, Section of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Columbia University New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, New York, NY, USA
  • 14 Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • 15 Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
  • 16 Cardiovascular Surgery Unit, Mohamed VI University Hospital, Marrakech, Morocco
  • 17 Department of Pediatric Cardiac and Congenital Heart Surgery, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 18 Congenital and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Mansoura University Children's Hospital, Mansoura, Egypt
  • 19 Department of Congenital Heart Surgery, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 20 Pediatric & Congenital Heart Surgery, Fortis-Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi, India
  • 21 Heart Institute of University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • 22 Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea
  • 23 Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA
  • 24 Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital Universitario Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 25 Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • 26 Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • 27 Cardiovascular Surgery, Clinica Girassol, Luanda, Angola
  • 28 Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Children's Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
  • 29 Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
  • 30 Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • 31 Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery Division, National Cardiovascular Center, Harapan Kita, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • 32 Lenmed Ethekwini Hospital and Heart Centre, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa
  • 33 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mount Fuji Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan
  • 34 Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 35 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart Institute, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 36 Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA
  • 37 Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
  • 38 Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
  • 39 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's Heart Center, National Children's Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam
  • 40 Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical, Cincinnati, OH, USA
  • 41 Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
  • 42 Shanghai Children's Medical Center and National Medical Center, Shanghai, China
  • 43 Children's HeartLink, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • 44 Cardiac Surgery, Center for Neuroscience Research, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg, 2021 05;12(3):394-405.
PMID: 33942697 DOI: 10.1177/21501351211003520

Abstract

The optimal training of the highly specialized congenital heart surgeon is a long and complex process, which is a significant challenge in most parts of the world. The World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (WSPCHS) has established the Global Council on Education for Congenital Heart Surgery as a nonprofit organization with the goal of assessing current training and certification and ultimately establishing standardized criteria for the training, evaluation, and certification of congenital heart surgeons around the world. The Global Council and the WSPCHS have reviewed the present status of training and certification for congenital cardiac surgery around the world. There is currently lack of consensus and standardized criteria for training in congenital heart surgery, with significant disparity between continents and countries. This represents significant obstacles to international job mobility of competent congenital heart surgeons and to the efforts to improve the quality of care for patients with Congenital Heart Disease worldwide. The purpose of this article is to summarize and document the present state of training and certification in congenital heart surgery around the world.

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