1. Current Status of Endovascular Training for Cardiothoracic Surgery Residents in the United States 
Panos N. Vardas, MD, Ada C. Stefanescu Schmidt, MD, Xiaoying Lou, MD, Andrew B. Goldstone, MD, Gregory Pattakos, MD, MS, Amy G. Fiedler, MD, Elizabeth H. Stephens, MD, PhD, Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili, MD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 104, Issue 5, Pages (November 2017)
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2. Fig 1
Reported importance of skill set, stratified by training pathway (I6 = integrated 6-year; 2Y = traditional 2-year; 3Y = traditional 3-year; 4+3 = combined general and thoracic residency). (TAVR = transcatheter aortic valve replacement; TEVAR = thoracic endovascular aortic repair.)
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3. Fig 2
Distribution of number of total weeks of endovascular training by training pathway. The horizontal line in the middle of each box indicates the median (Mdn); the top and bottom borders of the box mark the 75th and 25th percentiles, respectively; the diamond indicates the mean and the confidence interval, and the whiskers indicate the minimum and maximum of all the data. (I6 = integrated 6-year; 2Y, traditional 2-year; 3Y, traditional 3-year; 4+3 = combined general and thoracic residency.)
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