The RACS Library runs a great alerting service with Cardiothoracic Surgery recently added to the available e-journal subject sets. eTOCs = “electronic Table of Contents” alerts by email. Keep up-to-date with the latest articles. Alerts already in place. To join, just...
The Autumn 2016 Newsletter from the ANZSCTS President, Prof Paul Bannon is now available to download here.
The Cancer Australia Wiki Guidelines for Lung Cancer have recently been updated by the Lung Cancer Guideline Working Party. This resource addresses many questions using the PICO (Population-Intervention-Comparator-Outcome) approach. The evidence is summarised, a...
Dear Associate and Affiliate Members, Please refer below to the Avant offer to fund full-time, part-time and short-term research projects to support life-changing research to promote better patient outcomes and advance the careers of some of Australia’s promising...
Please see link below for the latest newsletter from the ANZSCTS database program. ANZSCTS Database Newsletter Issue 3
ANZSCTS Office hours over the holiday period: Please be advised the Society Office closes on 23 December for the holiday period. The Office will reopen on Monday 11 January 2016. As the festive season approaches, we would like to take this opportunity to wish you and...
The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) has commissioned a report to better understand the changing role of private health insurers in Australia and New Zealand and to undertake a preliminary assessment of the impact of these changes on the clinical autonomy...
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons has released a new clinical practice guideline that recommends the use of arterial rather than venous conduits when performing coronary artery bypass grafting in certain patients. The new guideline is available on The Annals of...
Dear Members and Trainees, Building Respect, Improving Patient Safety: An Action Plan on discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment (link to RACS website) Today, RACS published an action plan designed to promote respect, counter discrimination, bullying and sexual...
The ANZSCTS Government Relations Committee page has been updated with the latest correspondence & information on a number of current topics including: MBS review of percutaneous coronary interventions RACS position statement on the care of the paediatric position...