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.
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Professional Affairs
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 12, 2015
Dr. Robert Sade has made it his personal mission to educate surgeons regarding ethics and to help truly establish the field of surgical ethics. The Ethics of Surgery: Conflicts and Controversies represents the latest of his efforts.
June 12, 2015
During the last decade, the world of academic research and publication was attacked by low quality and commercial
journals that mimic the peer-reviewed scientific journals that I call this phenomenon “questionable journals” .
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.
March 2, 2015
This study examined the utility/accuracy of an administrative database compared to the STS Congenital Database for the outcome of mortality, which is used to rank quality. The administrative database had substantially lower volume and mortality numbers than the STS Database, resulting in ranking differences of 5 or more places for 24% of hospitals.