Medical School, Cardiovascular Surgery, and Education: how we do it in Brazil’s scenario?

Abstract

Choosing a surgical specialty can be a hard decision for a medical student. Several studies present data showing that most medical students fear the surgical field and end up switching to another specialty. For cardiovascular surgery, the scenario is very similar. In the last decades, the interest in cardiovascular surgery has been decreasing worldwide and the cardiothoracic surgical societies across the globe have been trying to understand the factors that push away medical students and general surgical residents from the specialty. In this regard, our work aims to focus on describe the access of students to cardiovascular surgery, especially during medical school, as well as to provide a brief report of our current data regarding the specialty.

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

“…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 ] . The president of SBCCV from 2016 to 2017, professor Fábio Jatene, with dedication and pertinacity led this important and decisive mission, assisted by Professors Henrique Murad, Renato Kalil, and Rui Almeida, members of its board, and Doctor Rosane Leite de Melo, executive secretary of MEC’s CNRM, who played an effective role in this outcome.…”