Transatlantic Educational Network – An Innovation Born Out of Necessity

The COVID-19 epidemic brought about many changes to the delivery of healthcare, graduate medical education, and collaborative efforts across academic medicine. While there was a temporary disruption in fluid delivery of services, longer-term benefits emerged with the leveraging of innovative technology and multi-centered collaborations. These new opportunities led fourteen centers within the United States and Europe to develop a novel remote collaborative educational effort in cardiovascular and thoracic anesthesiology, known as the Transatlantic Educational Network. This paper describes the initial pilot structure, pre-implementation data, and provides rationale for the development and expansion of the pilot program within other areas of Anesthesiology.