1. Cardiothoracic Surgery Specialty Training Courses
Narain Moorjani
SCTS Cardiac Surgical Tutor
Sri Rathinam
SCTS Thoracic Surgical Tutor

2. Overview ST 1
Introduction to Cardiothoracic Surgery for Foundation Year Doctors & Core Trainees 2
Essential Skills in Cardiothoracic Surgery 3
Introduction to Specialty Training in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Operative Cardiothoracic Surgery Course 4
Core Cardiac Surgery Course
Core Thoracic Surgery Course 5
Intermediate Viva Course
Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons (NOTSS) 6
Cardiac sub-specialty course (mitral valve, thoracic aorta, TAVI, heart failure)
Thoracic Sub-specialty Course (VATS lobectomy, tracheal surgery, chest wall surgery, oesophageal surgery) 7
FRCS (C-Th) Revision / Viva Course
Birmingham Review Course
London Core Review Course 8
Cardiac Pre-Consultant Course
Thoracic Pre-Consultant Course
Professional Development Course

3. Education delivery Interactive small group sessions
Wet-lab ‘hands-on’ experience
Live operating simulation
High-fidelity ‘Orpheus’ human factors simulator
Viva examinations (during programme & prior to exam)
Low fidelity simulator with video feedback

4. Current progress
All courses for nationally appointed trainees (ST3-8) successfully run with excellent feedback, delivered free of charge to the trainees – first surgical sub-specialty to achieve this.
Currently being written as a manuscript
Additional courses run fro Foundation year doctors, core trainees and ST2 trainees on run-through programme
Accreditation from RCS Ed - course programmes continuing to evolve
‘Training the trainers’ course for faculty

7. Reaction

9. Learning

11. CPB management

12. Wedge resection

13. Supervisor assessment of trainee’s operative skill and confidence

14. Supervisor’s assessment of knowledge and clinical decision making

15. “I felt more confident to allow the trainee to perform more of the technical aspects of subsequent operations” 1 3 7 5

16. SCTS Education Operative Video Prizes
Cardiothoracic Surgical Trainees (NTN and non-NTN) are invited to produce an operative video, appropriate to their year of training (see attached list overleaf)
Prize for the best overall cardiac and thoracic video
The videos should be submitted as a high definition (HD), AVI or MPEG-4 video file, 4-8 minutes in duration, and can be made using any recording device, including smart phones, video cameras or professional equipment
Please include patient consent and consultant approval with the submission
If selected, the videos may be edited and included in an SCTS operative videos app
For further details, please contact Narain Moorjani (SCTS Cardiac Tutor) or Sri Rathinam (SCTS Thoracic Tutor) at
Closing date 5th January 2017

19. SCTS Education Operative Video Prizes
Every trainee should be encouraged to submit a video
Empowers trainees to contribute to their own education
Modern method of conveying information
Part of ARCP assessment (similar to writing a manuscript or completing an audit)