La Asociación Sudamericana de Cirugía Torácica es una asociación civil y privada sin fines de lucro, integrada por profesionales de la salud especializados en enfermedades quirúrgicas del tórax.
Su finalidad será exclusivamente científica, con total prescindencia de problemas gremiales, políticos o de otra índole.
Sus propósitos serán:
Programar congresos, reuniones científicas, jornadas, cursos en los distintos países sudamericanos de donde provienen sus miembros, y a realizarse en lo posible alternativamente;
Estimular la formación de grupos de estudios para creación de protocolos de investigación relacionados con la cirugía torácica;
Favorecer el intercambio entre sus miembros, servicios especializados y sociedades científicas de la especialidad;
Mantener una publicación regular bajo forma de revista adecuada a normas internacionales que será el órgano oficial de divulgación científica de la Asociación, denominado South American Journal of Thoracic Surgery;
Fomentar la Recertificación de sus Asociados para asegurar la calidad de prestación médica a la comunidad.
Based on work in [7], list of issues will be developed and distributed through the workshop website. We will ask participants to elaborate their position on these research issues and to propose additional themes before attending the workshop. An initial discussion of the workshop topics will be carried out by a discussion forum before the workshop. The selected presenters will be asked to provide an extended 5-page position paper one month before the workshop. These position papers will be circulated in advance for participants to get an understanding of the mutual views and to provide a starting point for the discussion.
This one-day workshop is organized to enable creative and productive interaction among participants and to produce outcomes that are valuable for the future work of the participating researchers. Following an initial presentation and brief discussion of each participant’s contribution and position, the organizers present an initial framework based on pre-workshop materials and discussions for allocating and structuring the different research issues raised by the participants. Based on the interests expressed by the participants, three breakout groups discuss selected research topics with the aim of producing proposals for structuring the area in more detail, of judging the effectiveness of different methods including interdisciplinary approaches, and of laying out road maps for future research in the selected areas.
The results produced in the breakout groups are reported back to all participants and discussed in plenary. Finally, the group discusses and decides on follow-up activities, in particular for publishing the results of the workshop and possibly extending them in post-workhop communication.