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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;72:1116-1117
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Editorial

Thoracic surgical involvement in vascular surgery

James A. DeWeese, MDa

a Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

Address reprint requests to Dr DeWeese, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, NY 14642
e-mail: deweesepnj@aol.com

Thoracic surgeons were intimately involved in the early phases of the certification of vascular surgeons and the accreditation of vascular surgical training programs. They were represented or participated in all of the following activities: [1, 2]

  1. In 1972, a Committee on Certification was appointed by the Society for Vascular Surgery with American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS) representation to interface with the American Board of Surgery (ABS) on the development of vascular certification.
  2. In 1974, a Committee for Vascular Surgery was formed by the ABS that included members from the Society for Vascular Surgery, the International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery (ISCVS), the ABS, and the ABTS.
  3. In 1980, these representatives became full members of the ABS. The ABTS member appointed to the ABS became a member of that board’s Vascular Committee, Vascular Examination Committee, and the Credential Committee. With the formation of the Sub-Board for Vascular Surgery in 1998, the Vascular Committee of the ABS was disbanded. The ABTS representative to the ABS was not appointed to the subboard.
  4. In 1982, The American Board of Medical Specialties approved the certification of vascular surgeons. Ten members of the ABS and 4 members of the ABTS took and passed the first vascular surgical examination.
  5. In 1982, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education approved the accreditation of vascular surgery training programs, and the Residency Review Committee (RRC) for surgery began the accreditation process. A requirement for the evaluation of vascular programs was that a representative of the RRC for thoracic surgery be involved in those meetings. This representation ceased to be a requirement in the early 1990s, and thoracic surgery is no longer represented in the evaluation and accreditation of vascular surgical programs.
  6. In 1984 the . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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