A Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular e a inserção dos cirurgiões cardiovasculares como especialistas endovasculares

Change in the SBCCV’s Medical Residency Program — Perspectives of the Specialty and Challenges of Young Surgeons

“…Experienced surgeons with a broad vision of the future encouraged their peers to acquire skills in catheter procedures [ 7 , 8 ] . With the support of large international institutions, including Brazil, they developed a set of new minimally invasive techniques increasing the therapeutic arsenal of surgery benefiting a significant number of patients [ 9 - 11 ] . The reformulation of the CNRM collegiate, assuming the surgeon Rosane Leite de Melo as executive secretary, accepted the SBCCV’s arguments, approving the direct access program excluding the prerequisite of general surgery and establishing five years for completion of the residency in the specialty [ 12 ] .…”