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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2004;26:S72-S73
© 2004 Elsevier Science NL

Working Group Report

If retreat, how?

Heart Centre, University Hospital, Umea S-90185, Sweden

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The open Discussion following the ‘If retreat how?’ workshop went on as follows:

Appendix

Conference discussion

Dr A. Kappetein (Rotterdam, Netherlands): I think that everybody agrees with your points to improve cost effectiveness, improve quality, and to take an active leadership role. How do you see or your working group see how we can put this in practice, how can we help the surgeons to improve quality, improve cost effectiveness, take a leadership role? I think it is important that when we leave this room that we have something to work on.

Dr Aberg : Well, most of them are really on a personal level. You can take the initiative both towards cardiologists and towards your own administrators.You can explain that you are willing to help and take the initiative. As to working on cost-effectiveness, there are now methods available. In team building you have to both give and take, and there are also methods available to become the true team builder.

Dr Kappetein : Wouldn't it be an idea to put it in a post graduate education program. Now we know how we can improve cost effectiveness because we heard a talk from Paul Sergeant and Randolph Bolton, but I think that we have to share these ideas more and more. Normally we learn how to put a stitch here and there and which valve to implant, but the post graduate education committee could make a program with a more business-like course for surgeons.

Dr Aberg : The annual meeting is where we try to do as much as possible. So far in the annual meeting we have heavily promoted the Journal because the best material to the Journal comes through the annual meeting. We have expanded the annual meeting to five sessions. We could expand it even . . . [Full Text of this Article]