Overview
The Bern University Eye Clinic (Inselspital) is listed in the ICO Fellowship Host Directory as a host for ICO three-month fellowships in glaucoma, cornea and external diseases, medical retina and vitreoretinal diseases for young ophthalmologists from low-resource countries.
The programme
- Training type
- Clinical fellowship
- Duration
- 3 months
- Start
- Earliest 1 April following award
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- ICO Fellowship Program
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Completed residency; permanently based and working in an ICO-eligible (low-resource) country; may not train in home country; fluent in English or host-country language; no previous ICO Fellowship; must return home after training
- International applicants
- Yes – only for applicants from ICO-eligible countries
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Not stated on official page
How to apply
- Deadline
- 31 March and 30 September (ICO application deadlines)
- Application method
- Online ICO Fellowship application (icoph.org), naming the host from the ICO host directory
Funding
- Funding
- Not stated on official page
Official sources
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