Partnership
Medtronic Academia's vision is to work in partnership with professional societies and key stakeholders to deliver excellent educational experiences helping to optimise patient outcomes. It is a step-by-step development process based upon partnership and expertise, to establish valuable educational programs with long term credibility.
In order to achieve such ambitious goals, the following collaborations and partnerships are critical factors:
"Alone, or nationally, none of us have the resources, financial or intellectual, to provide all that is needed in continuing education today, but together, on a European level and partnered with industry, universities, as well as governing bodies we can all move forward."
President EAPCI, Dr. W. Wijns, FESC
"Industry may be the best place to deliver educational programmes in ‘craft’ related specialities and particularly in areas where device implantation technology based therapy has a major clinical role."
Prof. Jean Marco, Dr John M. Morgan, Dr Luc Stockx, Prof. Faiez Zannad
References
EuroIntervention Article ‘EAPCI: Education and Training Programmes in Interventional Cardiology Today’, EAPCI column, Europa Edition 2007
HEART ‘Educational Governance For the Regulation of Industry Sponsored Continuing Medical Education in Interventional and Device Based Therapies’ Heart 2005;91:710-712 © 2005 by BMJ Publishing Group & British Cardiac Society
