Open AccessIs someone listening? The first IJTC National Survey of CTVS trainees
Author(s) -
Varun Shetty,
Niket Arora
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery/indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 0973-7723
pISSN - 0970-9134
DOI - 10.1007/s12055-018-0755-7
Subject(s) - cardiothoracic surgery , medicine , vascular surgery , appeal , economic shortage , cardiac surgery , active listening , medical education , surgery , psychology , political science , linguistics , philosophy , communication , government (linguistics) , law
Cardiothoracic surgery will soon have a shortage of qualified surgeons in India, because the profession is losing appeal among surgical residents. Do we really understand why the profession is not their first choice, or what the current cardiothoracic residents think about their training? This article is the first nationwide survey meant only for cardiothoracic residents in training, conducted through online survey tool to report on the issues concerning our residents.