Overview
Two separate 3-week stays at high-volume European robotic thoracic centres (Paris, Calabria or London) with simulation, wet-lab and live-case observation, focused mainly on lung cancer and thymoma surgery.
The programme
- Focus
- Minimally invasive & robotic thoracic surgery
- Training type
- Observership
- Duration
- 6 weeks (two 3-week placements)
- Start
- From January 2027
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- EACTS Francis Fontan Fund fellowship
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Not stated on official page
- International applicants
- Not stated on official page
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Not stated on official page
How to apply
- Deadline
- Application window 1 July – 1 September 2026
- Application method
- Online application via EACTS Francis Fontan Fund
Funding
- Funding
- Grant €12,000
Official sources
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