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EAPCI: education and training programmes in interventional cardiology today.

One of the cornerstones of our work is the listing and classification of all educational and training opportunities now available for interventionalists in Europe. This is not only essential for our members, but allows us to pinpoint weaknesses and identify those areas that still need to be developed. We can all agree that the availability of good training and excellent continuing education is essential in the continuing development of our speciality, and we acknowledge that much exists already. However if these opportunities are not apparent, easily consultable and accessible, then no training programme, no matter how excellent, will be of great use. Throughout Europe, whether you are a recognised expert, mid-career specialist, student or young practitioner, if you do not have a way of knowing what is available, you won’t be able to partake in the experience of your colleagues. In this case the good intentions, educational and training protocols and courses will be of limited value. Our association, acting as a forum for these educational tools and experience, responds to a real need to fully illustrate what is being offered today. By doing so, it can also highlight what still needs to be done. This overview shows us our blind spots as well. For instance, we can see that there is a whole range of certain essential procedures for junior practitioners that need still to be covered, and here we can suggest that our partners, industry and others, develop useful tools for junior training (for instance in how to perform diagnostic coronary angiograms or right heart catheterisation or pericardial centesis, to name a few). So while the EAPCI is not a training organisation per se, it can – and is – fast becoming, the umbrella organisation offering the greatest visibility for the myriad of educational and training programmes existing and being developed today. As an immediate vocation, this suits the EAPCI well, and we have begun our work in earnest, documenting the various centres and programmes, whilst beginning to provide, on our website, a centralised location for referencing all of this material, creating a veritable clearing-house of information for our speciality and craft1.