MMCTS: Winner of the Interactive Media Award - Best in Class, Medicine

The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) is delighted to announce that its new Multimedia Manual of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery website has just won a prestigious Interactive Media Award for Best in Class in the Medical category. 

The Interactive Media Awards are presented annually by the Interactive Media Council, an international group based in New York, and attract thousands of entrants from all over the world. The Best in Class award is the highest honor bestowed by the Interactive Media Awards. It recognizes the very best in planning, execution, and overall professionalism.

The Manual scored full marks for content, for which EACTS thanks its editors-in-chief, Roberto Lorusso and René Prêtre, and its hundreds of dedicated authors.  It scored an impressive total of 387/400 in the remaining four categories of design, usability, feature functionality, and standards compliance, for which EACTS thanks its production agency, Ashfield Digital & Creative.  

MMCTS was created in 2005 under the leadership of founding editor Professor Marko Turina. It was Professor Turina’s vision that EACTS, already a world leader in CT surgery education, should take advantage of the Internet’s rapidly improving video publication capabilities to create a new online manual of surgical procedures. Guided by its editors-in-chief, the MMCTS's mission is to become the world's most comprehensive online educational reference for cardio-thoracic surgeons – residents and experienced surgeons alike.  

Receiving this prestigious Interactive Media Award just four months after launching the new MMCTS website is truly an exciting achievement, an imprimatur of quality for users and authors alike.

MMCTS invites surgeons who are interested in authoring a tutorial for MMCTS to visit Contributing to MMCTS to learn more.