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ESAIC Exchange Programme Host Centre (Observership / Hands-on)

Clinical Hospital Merkur – Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine

AnaesthesiologyTransplant anaesthesiaObservership

Destination

HRV

Zagreb, City of Zagreb, Croatia

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Overview

ESAIC exchange host supporting one of Croatia's busiest solid-organ transplant programmes (over 120 liver and 60 kidney transplants per year), plus major vascular, polytrauma, HPB and pain services.

The programme

Training type: Observership
Duration: 3 months
Start: Not stated on official page
Positions: Not stated on official page
Accreditation: ESAIC Exchange Programme host centre
Department: Not stated on official page

Eligibility and visa

Eligibility: Residents/young specialists (at least 3rd-year trainees and specialists in their first 5 years) and specialists (at least 4th-year specialists or more senior)
International applicants: Not stated on official page
Visa support: Not stated on official page
Licence requirement: Home-country medical chamber licence and reference from head of department or senior consultant; B2 English

How to apply

Deadline: Not stated on official page
Application method: Online application to the ESAIC Exchange Programme; the ESAIC Exchange Programme Committee matches applicants to host centres (notifications in early October for exchanges the following year)

Funding

Funding: No salary; ESAIC allots a symbolic budget to support applicants from European lower- and upper-middle-income countries

Official sources

https://esaic.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Clinical-Hospital-Merkur-Information.pdf https://esaic.org/professional-growth/exchange-programme/

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