EAPCI Online Coaching Programme

Who can benefit?

Young interventional cardiologists who are EAPCI Members.

What are the objectives?

• Meet the needs of the young community, by providing the unique opportunity of one-to-one remote coaching.
• Provide for equal opportunities between countries in terms of access to education and career development in interventional cardiology.
• Establish collaborative networking between experienced and in-training interventional cardiologists.
• For female candidates, encourage and support women to pursue career in interventional cardiology.

Eligibility

Candidates must:

• be an EAPCI Member,
• have at least one year of experience in interventional cardiology, during (or with completed) specialisation in cardiology,
• be a citizen or permanent resident of an institutional ESC member country*, AND, at the time of application, be working/training in an institutional ESC member country; and
• be under 40 years of age on the day of the application deadline.

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*The Belorussian Scientific Society of Cardiology and the Russian Society of Cardiology are temporarily suspended from membership in the ESC. Read ESC Statement.

How does it work?

• This online coaching programme takes place over 12 months
• Each mentor is paired to a mentee and together they are expected to develop a research, education and/or quality improvement project, to be carried out over the 12 month cycle. Selected candidates will also participate in networking events organised by the EAPCI.
• Each month, a two hour online meeting (or two, one hour online meetings) at any time agreed by the participants will focus on professional achievements/challenges and/or updates on research projects. In addition, the mentee can contact the mentor via email, if needed.
• Mentor and mentee can agree on remote proctoring on selected procedural cases based on bilateral availabilities.
• This is a voluntary programme for mentors and mentees.

The EAPCI Selection Committee will be responsible for assigning a mentor to the selected candidates. 

How to apply

The application period closed on 5 May 2022.

Online Coaching Programme Winners 2022

• Gianluca Castaldi (Italy)
• Sherhii Chaichuk (Ukraine)
• Afonso Félix-Oliveira (Portugal)
• Simone Fezzi (Italy)
• Davorka Lulic (Croatia)
• Ana Rita Pereira (Portugal)
• Graziella Pompei (Italy)
• Benedikt Schrage (Germany)
• Krishnaraj Sinhji Rathod (UK)
• Dimitrios Terentes-Printzios (Greece)
• Sharmaine Thiru (UK)
• Evelina Toscano (Italy)