Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2017
This paper presents a personal perspective on the value of training overseas in paediatric cardiac surgery. From personal experience and observation, I argue that travel does indeed broaden the mind and placing artificial constraints on movement of trainees is a negative move. We need to work with others, in other cultures to become rounded human beings. And to be an empathetic surgeon, you need to be a rounded human being.
Presented at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Institute, Andrews/Daicoff Cardiovascular Program, International Symposium on Postgraduate Education in Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care, Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States of America, Thursday, 11 February, 2016 and Friday, 12 February, 2016.
* Presented at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Institute, Andrews/Daicoff Cardiovascular Program, International Symposium on Postgraduate Education in Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care, Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States of America, Thursday, 11 February, 2016 and Friday, 12 February, 2016.