Overview
Three-month robotic research fellowship observing robotic-assisted thoracic surgery and conducting an outcomes project using the ESTS Robotic Surgery Database; finalists present at the ESTS Biology Club session.
The programme
- Focus
- Minimally invasive & robotic thoracic surgery
- Training type
- Research fellowship
- Duration
- 3 months
- Start
- Most recent cycle completed May 2026
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- ESTS Biology Club
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- MD in thoracic surgery training (postdoctoral level); must return to a home institution with robotic facilities
- International applicants
- Open to European and non-European candidates
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Not stated on official page
How to apply
- Deadline
- Most recent call closed 1 April 2025
- Application method
- Research outline and home-institution support letter submitted to ESTS
Funding
- Funding
- Grant CHF 18,000 (salary, overhead, project costs, travel)
Official sources
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