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Cardiothoracic Registrar 2025-2026 – Wellington Hospital

Wellington Hospital are seeking to appoint a permanent Surgery Registrar position with a Cardiothoracic allocation from 27 January 2025 - 25 January 2026, based at Wellington Hospital. There is the potential to continue in Cardiothoracic in the 2026-2027 Registrar...

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President’s Final Communique November 2024

With the wrap up of the 2024 ANZSCTS Annual Scientific Meeting in Noosa my time as your president concludes. The meeting was highly educational and enjoyable, living up to the theme “Generation next- cardiothoracic surgery for the future”. Thank you to the convenors...

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President’s Spring Communique No. 2

Dear ANZSCTS Members, As the end of the year approaches probably one of the most important issues for RACS comes to a head. As you are aware, the college has spent a significant amount of time and effort over the last 2 years trying to achieve AMC re-accreditation....

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President’s Spring Communique No. 1

Dear ANZSCTS members, Presidents Spring Communique: Back to Noosa! The ANZSCTS annual scientific meeting is approaching. This year’s conference returns to Noosa, from Thursday 7th November till Saturday 9th November. The theme of the conference is Cardiothoracic...

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2024 BAXTER Travelling Educational Grants

BAXTER for the third year have generously offered ANZSCTS members a prestigious education initiative, the ‘Baxter Travelling Educational’ awards for our ANZSCTS SET Trainees/Younger Fellows/Unaccredited Trainees. ANZSCTS will provide up to 4 awards to recipients from...

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Jacob Goldstein AM – King’s Birthday Honours

Dear Members, ANZSCTS is honoured to inform members that the late Jacob Goldstein has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the King’s Birthday 2024 Honours list. This is for significant service to medicine as a cardiothoracic surgeon, and as...

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President’s Winter Newsletter 2024

Dear ANZSCTS members, The year is well underway and Cardiothoracic Surgery has a way of never being boring! From the “ramping up” of surgical demand, to the usual constraints of the health system combined with “ramping up” of the cold and flu season, our membership...

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ANZSCTS ASM 2023 abstracts published online

The 2023 ANZSCTS ASM conference abstracts have now been published. Please see links below. ScienceDirect: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/heart-lung-and-circulation/vol/33/suppl/S1 HLC: https://www.heartlungcirc.org/issue/S1443-9506(24)X0008-6

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