Overview
Three-year bursary-funded subspecialty training for qualified physicians to train as cardiologists at Tygerberg Hospital, completing the MPhil (Cardiology) and the CMSA Cert Cardiology (SA) including College logbook requirements, plus research on cardiac disease prevalent in South Africa.
The programme
- Training type
- Subspecialty training programme
- Specialty associations
- Not yet verified
- Learning format
- Not yet verified
- Duration
- 3 years
- Start
- 1 August 2026 (2026 bursary round)
- Positions
- Not stated on the official page
- Accreditation
- MPhil (Cardiology), Stellenbosch University; Cert Cardiology (SA), Colleges of Medicine of South Africa
- Department
- Not yet verified
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Specialist physician qualification (FCP(SA) or equivalent) and HPCSA registration as a specialist physician (candidates in the process of registration or sitting exams also considered). Experience in cardiology/cardiac imaging and research recommended.
- Qualification requirement
- Specialist physician qualification (FCP(SA) or equivalent) and HPCSA registration as a specialist physician (candidates in the process of registration or sitting exams also considered). Experience in cardiology/cardiac imaging and research recommended.
- Citizenship requirement
- Not yet verified
- Practice location requirement
- Not yet verified
- Membership requirement
- Not yet verified
- Eligibility restrictions
- Not yet verified
- Language
- Not yet verified
- Teaching language
- Not yet verified
- Clinical language
- Not yet verified
- International applicants
- Not stated on the official page
- Licence requirement
- HPCSA registration as specialist physician
- Visa route
- Not yet verified
- Visa sponsorship
- Not yet verified
- Visa support
- Not stated on the official page
How to apply
- Deadline
- 12 June 2026 (2026 round)
- Application method
- Email bursary application form, CV and motivation letter to Prof AJK Pecoraro, Head: Division of Cardiology / Director SUNHEART (pecoraro@sun.ac.za).
- Documents
- CV (named in recorded application instructions; confirm full checklist)
- Contact
- pecoraro@sun.ac.za
Funding and costs
- Tuition / fees
- Not yet verified
- Application fee
- Not yet verified
- Stipend / salary
- Not yet verified
- Scholarship
- Three-year bursary from the Division of Cardiology and SUNHEART
- Funding
- Three-year bursary from the Division of Cardiology and SUNHEART
Sources and verification
Evidence by field
- Qualification requirement: legacy record not reverified; checked not recorded. Source 1 Derived from Eligibility.
- Contact: legacy record not reverified; checked not recorded. Source 1 Derived from Application method.
- Documents: legacy record not reverified; checked not recorded. Source 1 Derived from Application method.
- Scholarship: legacy record not reverified; checked not recorded. Source 1 Derived from Funding.
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