Overview
Six-month hands-on fellowship (fellows scrub and operate) covering elective microsurgery, oncoplastic, post-bariatric, complex trauma/orthoplastic and diabetic foot surgery, with cadaver wet-lab training and research opportunities.
The programme
- Focus
- General Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Microsurgery
- Training type
- Clinical fellowship
- Duration
- 6 months (January–July 2027)
- Start
- January 2027
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- Tampere University Hospital Department of Plastic Surgery
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Young consultants and residents in the final year of training
- International applicants
- Yes – English-language international fellowship page
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Not stated on official page
How to apply
- Deadline
- 31 May 2026 (decision by 31 July 2026)
- Application method
- Application and letters of recommendation; enquiries to Ilkka Kaartinen (ilkka.kaartinen@pirha.fi)
Funding
- Funding
- €1,708.41 per month; help finding accommodation; 2 days paid vacation per month