Training Fellowships
The ESSO Education Committee offers a number of Training Fellowships to support trainees in Surgical Oncology. The aim is to allow young surgeons to visit a
specialist centre outside of their own country, expand their experience and learn new techniques. These fellowships are competitive and applicants require support from the Head of their own department as well as from the Head of the department they wish to visit.
Here Robert Sitarz reports on his experience following receipt of one of the standard fellowships for 2013.
Read here about the experience of other previous fellows.
The Education and Training Committee grants two types of fellowships each year:
• Up to 10 Standard training fellowships (value 2.000 EUR): from 1 to 3 months
One of these will be reserved for a trainee from an Eastern European Country to visit a centre in the West of Europe or elsewhere.
• 1 major training fellowship (value 10.000 EUR): from 6 to 12 months
The ETC Fellowship reserves the right to split the major fellowship if 2 candidates are judged to be of equal merit.
The following apply to both types of fellowships:
• The traineeship period should occur within one year following the deadline for application.
• The Fellowship position must NOT be salaried.
• The Fellowship can be either for clinical training or research training.
• The Fellowship must take place in a country other than the applicant’s current place of training.
All successful fellows will be expected to write a report about their experience and provide a testimonial and pictures for publication on the ESSO website within 3 months of return from the fellowship.
The successful applicant of the Major Fellowship will further be invited to give an oral presentation at the next ESSO congress.
Who can apply?
• Applicants must be a specialist, trainee or junior doctor with a declared intention of specialising in a sub-specialty of surgical oncology (breast, upper GI,
hepatobiliary and pancreatic, colorectal, endocrine, head and neck, thoracic, skin cancer and melanoma, gynaecology, urology, sarcoma).
• Applicants must be or become ESSO members before the start date of the award.
• Applicants must be younger than 40 years of age.
• Both European and non-European citizens can apply. European applicants may choose to visit European or non-European units, while non-European applicants
must choose to visit a European centre.
• Previous Fellowship recipients will be ineligible to apply for a second award.
How to apply?
Applications must be submitted in English only and include the following information:
• a motivation letter describing the applicant’s area of interest, research plan and reasons behind the visit;
• a completed curriculum vitae application form available from the ESSO website,
• a letter of support from their Head of Department,
• a letter of invitation from the Head of the Department they wish to visit.
When to apply?
Next Application deadline :
10th November 2014 Donwload the application form
In 2013, the major fellowship (10.000 EUR) was granted to:
- Dr. Evert-Jan Boerma (NL/UK) from Erasmus MC Rotterdam to visit Queen Elisabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
The 8 standard fellowships (2.000 EUR each) were granted to:
- Tejinderjit Athwal (UK) from Aintree University Hospital to visit the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, USA
- Duveken Fontein (NL) from Leiden University Medical Center to visit the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York and the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, USA.
- Jeroen Hagendoorn (NL) from the University Medical Center Utrecht to visit the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, USA
- Aristotelis Kechiagas (GR) from Konstantopouleion Hospital, Nea Ionia to visit the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgical Oncology, Utrecht University Hospital, NL
- Nagesh Madnoorkar (IN) from Vasundhara Cancer Clinic to visit Guy’s and Saint Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
- Robert Sitarz (PL) from the Medical University of Lublin to visit the Academic Medical Center Amsterdam to visit the Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg.
- Arkadiusz Spychala (PL) from Greater Poland Cancer Center, to visit the University Hospital Siena, Italy
- Mallika Tewari (IN) from the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi to visit the Heidelberg University Hospital in Germany
In addition, the EYSAC (ESSO Young Surgeons and Alumni Club) Steering Committee granted one fellowship of 2.000 EUR to:
- Paul Sutton (UK) from the University of Liverpool to visit the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, and the Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA.
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