Overview
Non-ACGME advanced surgical fellowship in heart and lung transplantation within UChicago Medicine's transplant programme.
The programme
- Focus
- Cardiothoracic surgery
- Training type
- Clinical fellowship
- Specialty associations
- Not yet verified
- Learning format
- Not yet verified
- Duration
- 24 months
- Start
- After 1 October 2025 (as stated for the 2025 cycle)
- Positions
- 1 fellow per year
- Accreditation
- Non-ACGME accredited
- Department
- Not yet verified
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Completed medical school and the equivalent of an ACGME-approved cardiothoracic surgery residency
- Qualification requirement
- Completed medical school and the equivalent of an ACGME-approved cardiothoracic surgery residency
- Citizenship requirement
- Not yet verified
- Practice location requirement
- Not yet verified
- Membership requirement
- Not yet verified
- Eligibility restrictions
- Foreign medical graduates must include a copy of their ECFMG certificate
- Language
- Not yet verified
- Teaching language
- Not yet verified
- Clinical language
- Not yet verified
- International applicants
- Foreign medical graduates must include a copy of their ECFMG certificate
- Licence requirement
- Must be able to be licensed (permanent or temporary) in Illinois
- Visa route
- Not yet verified
- Visa sponsorship
- Not yet verified
- Visa support
- Not yet verified
How to apply
- Deadline
- Candidates interviewed and selected before October 2025 (2025 cycle); virtual interviews
- Application method
- Signed hard-copy application with CV, personal statement, USMLE scores, ECFMG certificate (if FMG) and three letters, submitted to the programme coordinator
- Documents
- CV; personal statement (named in recorded application instructions; confirm full checklist)
- Contact
- Not yet verified
Funding and costs
- Tuition / fees
- Not yet verified
- Application fee
- Not yet verified
- Stipend / salary
- Not yet verified
- Scholarship
- Not yet verified
- Funding
- Not stated on specialist directory profile
Sources and verification
Evidence by field
- Qualification requirement: legacy record not reverified; checked not recorded. Source 1 Derived from Eligibility.
- Eligibility restrictions: legacy record not reverified; checked not recorded. Source 1 Derived from International applicants.
- Documents: legacy record not reverified; checked not recorded. Source 1 Derived from Application method.
- Training type: classification from record; checked not recorded. Source 1
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