Mohamad Bashir, Matti Jubouri, Edward P Chen, Giovanni Mariscalco, Pradeep Narayan, Damian M Bailey, Wael I Awad, Ian M Williams, Bashi Velayudhan, Idhrees Mohammed
Cardiothoracic surgery is facing a multitude of challenges in leadership and training on the global scale, these being a complex and aging patient population, shortage of cardiac surgeons, diminishing student interest and trainee enthusiasm, increasingly challenging training obstacles and work-life imbalances, suboptimal job prospects, reports of discrimination and bullying and lack of diversity as well as gap between innovation and technology, clinical application, and training of future surgeons. The survival of cardiac surgery hinges on the leadership attracting and retaining young surgeons into the specialty...
December 2022: Journal of Cardiac Surgery