Introduction Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death in Brazil, significantly decreasing life expectancy, impairing quality of life, and causing a great impact on the Brazilian Unified Health System. However, it is important to highlight the enormous progress in cardiovascular research and in Brazilian cardiology over the past 6 decades, which have contributed to the increase in life expectancy from 54. years in 1960 to 75.6 years in 2018. Whereas in the last century, cardiology waged a major […]

Abstract Huge variations exist in cardiology training programs across the world. In developing (middle-income) countries, such as Brazil, to find the right balance between training improvements and social and economic conditions of the country may be a difficult task. Adding more training years or different mandatory rotations, for instance, may be costly and not have an immediate direct impact on enhancing patient care or public health. In this text, we compare the Brazilian cardiology training system with other proposals implemented […]