Overview
One-year DIU (≈90 h: 50 h theory, 40 h practical work/dissection) plus 15 supervised half-day operative placements, at least partly in Montpellier; covers skin-cancer surgery, flaps/grafts, Mohs and slow-Mohs, and surgical lasers.
The programme
- Focus
- Dermatologic surgery
- Training type
- Postgraduate degree programme
- Duration
- 1 academic year (~90 h teaching + 60 h placements)
- Start
- September/October
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- Inter-university diploma (Aix-Marseille, Bordeaux, Lyon, Lorraine, UVSQ, Rouen, Brest) under SFD/CEDEF
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Priority: hospital dermatologists, private dermatologists, dermatologists with validated DES; if places remain: non-dermatologists performing skin-cancer surgery, EU-qualified dermatologists
- International applicants
- EU-qualified dermatologists (or equivalent after CNG assignment) considered subject to places
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Not stated on official page
How to apply
- Deadline
- Not stated on official page
- Application method
- Online application on file at du-diu-facmedecine.umontpellier.fr
Funding
- Funding
- Fee-paying: €3,400 (self-funded) or €6,800 (third-party funded), 2026/27
Official sources
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