Position Paper on Young Vascular Surgeons Training of the Mediterranean Federation for the Advancing of Vascular Surgery (MeFAVS): State of the Art and Perspectives

Umberto Marcello Bracale; Raffaele Pio Ammollo; Emad A Hussein; Jamal J Hoballah; Maurizio Taurino; Ben R Saleem; Carlo Setacci; Felice Pecoraro; Raffaele Serra; Giancarlo Bracale; collaboratorsCollaborators; Marco Panagrosso; Antonio Peluso; Anna Petrone; Marianna Maisto; Luca Del Guercio; Ettore Dinoto; Guido Bajardi; Mohamed N Bouayed; Clark J Zeebregts; Raffaele Pulli; Bianca Pane; Giovanni Pratesi; Patrizio Castelli; Francesco Setacci; Mauro Gargiulo; Andrea Stella; Maddalena Illario; Vincenzo De Luca; Eric L G Verhoeven; Vincent Riambau; Nikolaos Saratzis; Ivan Cvjetko; Timothy Resch; José Fernandes E Fernandes; Laurent Chiche; Olivier Goeau-Brissonniere

doi:10.1016/j.avsg.2021.08.002

Position Paper on Young Vascular Surgeons Training of the Mediterranean Federation for the Advancing of Vascular Surgery (MeFAVS): State of the Art and Perspectives

Ann Vasc Surg. 2021 Nov:77:e7-e13. doi: 10.1016/j.avsg.2021.08.002. Epub 2021 Aug 25.

Authors

Umberto Marcello Bracale¹, Raffaele Pio Ammollo², Emad A Hussein³, Jamal J Hoballah⁴, Maurizio Taurino⁵, Ben R Saleem⁶, Carlo Setacci⁷, Felice Pecoraro⁸, Raffaele Serra⁹, Giancarlo Bracale¹⁰; collaboratorsCollaborators; Marco Panagrosso², Antonio Peluso², Anna Petrone², Marianna Maisto², Luca Del Guercio², Ettore Dinoto⁸, Guido Bajardi⁸, Mohamed N Bouayed¹¹, Clark J Zeebregts⁶, Raffaele Pulli¹², Bianca Pane¹³, Giovanni Pratesi¹³, Patrizio Castelli¹⁴, Francesco Setacci¹⁵, Mauro Gargiulo¹⁶, Andrea Stella¹⁶, Maddalena Illario¹⁷, Vincenzo De Luca¹⁸, Eric L G Verhoeven¹⁹, Vincent Riambau²⁰, Nikolaos Saratzis²¹, Ivan Cvjetko²², Timothy Resch²³, José Fernandes E Fernandes²⁴, Laurent Chiche²⁵, Olivier Goeau-Brissonniere²⁶

Affiliations

¹ Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Unit, Department of Public Health, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy. Electronic address: umbertomarcello.bracale@unina.it.
² Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Unit, Department of Public Health, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy.
³ Department of Vascular Surgery, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
⁴ Department of General Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
⁵ Unit of Vascular Surgery, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, "Sapienza", University of Rome, Sant'Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy.
⁶ Department of Surgery (Division of Vascular Surgery), University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
⁷ Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Unit, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neurological Sciences, Policlinico S. Maria alle Scotte, University of Siena, Italy.
⁸ Department of Surgical Oncological and Oral Sciences (DICHIRONS), University of Palermo, Vascular Surgery Unit, Palermo, Italy.
⁹ Department of Medical & Surgical Sciences University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy.
¹⁰ Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Unit, Department of Public Health, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy; Health Innovation Unit, Campania Region, Naples, Italy.
¹¹ Department of Vascular Surgery, EHU ORAN, Algeri, Algeria.
¹² Vascular Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
¹³ Clinic of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Department of Integrated Surgical and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Genoa, Italy.
¹⁴ Research Centre for Vascular Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Italy.
¹⁵ Unit of Vascular Surgery, Multimedica Institute for Research and Care, Milan, Italy.
¹⁶ Vascular Surgery, Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
¹⁷ Health Innovation Unit, Campania Region, Naples, Italy; Research and Development Unit, AOU "Federico II", Naples, Italy.
¹⁸ Research and Development Unit, AOU "Federico II", Naples, Italy.
¹⁹ Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Klinikum Nuremberg, Paracelsus Medical University Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany.
²⁰ Vascular Surgery Division, Thorax Institute, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain.
²¹ 1st Department of Surgery and Vascular Surgery, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
²² Clinical Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Merkur, Zagreb, Croatia.
²³ Vascular Center Malmö-Lund, Skåne University Hospital, Sweden.
²⁴ Department of Surgery and Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
²⁵ Sorbonne Université, Department of Vascular Surgery, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, France.
²⁶ Department of Vascular Surgery, Ambroise Paré Hospital, AP-HP, Boulogne-Billancourt, France; Faculté de Médecine Paris Ile-de-France Ouest, Paris, France.

PMID: 34454017
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2021.08.002

Abstract

The Mediterranean Federation for the Advancing of Vascular Surgery (MeFAVS) was founded in 2018, with the aim to promote cooperation among vascular professionals within Mediterranean countries. Due to its prominent social and economic impact on national health systems, diabetic peripheral artery was selected as the very first topic to be investigated by the federation. In this second paper, different experiences from delegates of participating countries were shared to define common strategies to harmonize, standardize, and optimize education and training in the Vascular Surgery specialty.

Keywords: Endovascular Surgery; Mediterranean Sea; Training; Vascular Surgery.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Clinical Competence
Curriculum
Diabetic Angiopathies / diagnosis
Diabetic Angiopathies / epidemiology
Diabetic Angiopathies / surgery*
Education, Medical, Graduate*
Humans
Internship and Residency*
Learning Curve
Mediterranean Region / epidemiology
Peripheral Arterial Disease / diagnosis
Peripheral Arterial Disease / epidemiology
Peripheral Arterial Disease / surgery*
Program Evaluation
Specialization
Surgeons / education*
Vascular Surgical Procedures / education*