Overview
Cardiothoracic training combining operating-room care, advanced echocardiography and cardiothoracic intensive care, including transplant and mechanical-support cases.
The programme
- Focus
- Adult cardiothoracic anaesthesia
- Training type
- Clinical Fellowship
- Duration
- 1 year
- Start
- 1 August (expected start date)
- Positions
- 4 per year
- Accreditation
- ACGME
- Department
- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Anaesthesiology residency graduate; SF Match application with USMLE Steps 1-3 (or COMLEX), ABA Basic Exam result, ITE scores, 3 letters (one from residency PD); valid California medical licence before starting
- International applicants
- IMGs may apply; valid ECFMG certificate and notarized English translations of diploma/transcripts required
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Valid California medical licence required prior to starting
How to apply
- Deadline
- Application submission period November through January via SF Match (2027-2028 intake opened November 2025); interviews in March
- Application method
- SF Match (sfmatch.org) plus supplemental documents emailed to the programme
Funding
- Funding
- Not stated on official page
Official sources
https://www.uclahealth.org/departments/anes/education/fellowship-programs/adult-cardiothoracic-anesthesiology-fellowshiphttps://www.uclahealth.org/departments/anes/education/fellowship-programs/adult-cardiothoracic-anesthesiology-fellowship/application-process
Added application-process page. Next-cycle (2028-29) dates not yet posted.