Building a clinical cardiothoracic surgical program: a multi-institutional model.
Building a multi-institutional cardiothoracic surgical program has the same guiding principles and values as a traditional single institutional program: ensuring high-quality patient care, training and fostering residents, recruiting and retaining quality faculty, and contributing to basic and clinical research. With a well-designed infrastructure and support system, this more complicated type of organization may permit academic cardiothoracic surgical programs to compete effectively and grow in a constantly changing economic and political environment.
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA. vstarnes@surgery.usc.edu
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D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development; D013903:Thoracic Surgery / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration*