This learning experience, 100% practical, will boost your professional development towards a level of excellence within the medical practice of Cardiac Surgery” 

Currently, Cardiac Surgery has become one of the medical scenarios that is most renewed and innovated from a scientific and technological point of view. This continuous evolution has meant a better quality of life for patients and the emergence of much less invasive interventional techniques that ensure a faster recovery and higher survival rates. At the same time, it is a challenge for specialists to keep a global follow-up of all these advances. This fact is even more serious due to the fact that, in the educational market, there are not enough programs focused on the practical learning of all these advantages.

For this reason, TECH has designed an academic modality, pioneer in its kind, which contrasts with other programs focused on Cardiac Surgery. Through this Internship program, TECH offers physicians a 100% on-site, immersive and exhaustive study process, which will allow them to apply different surgical skills and the use of the most advanced instruments in the care of real patients. During this learning period, spread over 3 weeks, the specialist will acquire skills directly from the care of real patients from day one.

Surgeons will acquire this knowledge in a prestigious hospital facility equipped with the most modern technology. Access to these institutions is guaranteed thanks to the wide network of contacts and collaborations of TECH, the world's largest online university. Throughout the entire process, they will be accompanied by high-quality surgical experts and will have an assistant tutor who will monitor their progress on an ongoing basis.

The teaching materials of this program, elaborated by these specialists, have contents that are completely applicable to your professional experiences” 

Through a comprehensive program, with a duration of 3 weeks, the doctor will work with great experts in Cardiac Surgery. For this purpose, they will have access to on-site and intensive training, with 8-hour shifts from Monday to Friday. In this way, they will be able to manage the most complex equipment, the most recent interventional protocols and master in general the internal dynamics of the heart surgery units. 

In this completely practical Internship program, the activities are aimed at developing and perfecting the skills necessary to provide healthcare care in areas and conditions that require highly qualified professionals, and are oriented towards specific expertise for practicing the activity, in a safe environment for the patient and with highly professional performance.  

For this academic process, the surgeon will be supported by a team of professionals with a distinguished trajectory in Cardiology. In addition, they will have an assistant tutor, an academic figure created to advise and supervise practical learning all the time. 

The student will actively participate by performing activities and procedures related to each area of competence (learning to learn and learning to do), with the support and guidance of the teachers and other classmates to facilitate teamwork and multidisciplinary integration as transversal competencies for the practice of medicine (learning to be and learning to relate to others).

The procedures described below will form the basis of the practical part of the training, and their implementation is subject to both the suitability of the patients and the availability of the center and its workload, with the proposed activities being as follows: 

Minimally Invasive and Robotic Cardiac Surgery Procedures 

• Replace the aortic valve by robotic assistance 
• Apply the labyrinth technique, by minimally invasive surgery, to treat Atrial Fibrillation
• Perform saphenous vein harvesting for coronary artery surgery by robotic assistance 
• Atrial septal defect and patent foramen ovale closure with minimally invasive surgical tools

Surgical Techniques to Address Abnormal Heart Rhythms 

• Remove problematic areas of the heart that cause abnormal heart rhythm using Catheter Ablation 
• Insert permanent pacemakers in the upper chest and secure their connection to the heart via leads
• Promote recovery of normal heart rhythm by inserting an automatic implantable defibrillator
• Assess the patient's condition and resistance to a total artificial heart implant to pump blood

Procedures Aimed at Improving Blood Flow Through the Coronary Arteries 

• Restore blood flow through Balloon Angioplasty 
• Apply coronary artery stent to open blocked areas 
• Implement Atherectomy with a small device placed at the end of a catheter 
• Open a blocked artery by laser angioplasty 

Surgical Trends for Various Heart Diseases 

• Manage angina pectoris and plaque buildup in the arteries through coronary artery bypass grafting 
• Provide oxygen to the heart muscle and pump blood through intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation 
• Provide oxygen to the heart muscle and pump blood through intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation 
• Improve the pumping function of one or both of the heart's pumping chambers through ventricular assist device implantation
• Remove and replace valves through leg and arm artery Valvulopathy
• Treat atrial fibrillation with small cuts in the cardiac muscle
• Replace a severely diseased heart by transplantation       

Receive specialized education in an institution that can offer you all these possibilities, with an innovative academic program and a human team that will help you develop your full potential”