Overview
A tailored, funded fellowship offering exposure to all aspects of general thoracic surgery, with an optional year of lung transplantation.
The programme
- Focus
- General thoracic
- Training type
- Clinical Fellowship
- Duration
- 6 months to 2 years
- Start
- Not stated on official page
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- Does not lead to Royal College accreditation
- Department
- Division of Thoracic Surgery
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Typically for candidates who have completed a thoracic surgery residency
- International applicants
- Funded positions available to both Canadian and international surgeons
- 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 in April for the following year
- Application method
- UHN online Fellowship Application; reference letters to the Fellowship Director
Funding
- Funding
- Funded fellowship positions