Preface: PCR-EAPCI Percutaneous Interventional Cardiovascular Medicine Textbook: a step and benchmark for a future model in education

The PCR-EAPCI Percutaneous Interventional Cardiovascular Medicine Textbook is the successful realisation of the combined and constantly growing reflections, actions and experience of the entire “PCR Family” and it will become the benchmark at the core of education for our community in the future.

Historical roots and collaborations: EuroPCR

Since 1983, our motto, “innovation in education and sharing” has been the basis of all our actions. Thanks to a tight, strong and efficient collaboration with Marc Doncieux and Europa Organisation, by sharing both a common vision (“together we achieve more”) and common ethics (our joint commitment to integrity, responsibility and excellence) we have progressively built innovative processes in education and established fruitful European collaborations. This resulted in the annual PCR course of worldwide renown, a platform of exchange widely open to the whole cardiovascular community and with its own course book.

Sharing these same values with Patrick W. Serruys (Director of the Rotterdam course Euro-CVS), we created EuroPCR (2000) and mutually matured the concept of one annual Course with its own course book to one annual course with a continually accessible website, PCRonline (2002) and a monthly published journal, EuroIntervention (2006).

The constructive and open-minded spirit of the former Presidents of the...