Overview
A funded one-year fellowship covering recipient selection, donor assessment and retrieval, transplant operations and long-term post-transplant management.
The programme
- Focus
- Lung transplant
- Training type
- Clinical Fellowship
- Duration
- 1 year
- Start
- Institution policyUniversity of Toronto PGME academic year runs 1 July - 30 June (letters of appointment issued per academic year; off-cycle starts possible)
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- Not stated on official page
- Department
- Division of Thoracic Surgery
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Institution policymust be eligible for a CPSO postgraduate education certificate, including recognition as a medical specialist/family physician in the jurisdiction where the applicant practised before the fellowship
- International applicants
- Institution policyYes - international applicants who meet CPSO clinical-fellow licensure requirements contact the Fellowship Program Director; applicants from countries with training agreements apply via their sponsoring agency to the PGME Office
- Visa support
- Institution policyinternational clinical fellows need an IRCC work permit; the PGME Office issues an LMIA-exempt offer of employment number and supports the work permit application
- Licence requirement
- Institution policyclinical fellows must hold a CPSO certificate of registration authorising postgraduate education (educational licence); research fellows do not need CPSO registration
How to apply
- Deadline
- Applications accepted any time; decisions made more than one year in advance
- Application method
- UHN online Fellowship Application; reference letters to the Fellowship Director
Funding
- Funding
- Funded fellowship positions
Official sources
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