Overview
Four-to-six-week placement at a high-volume European robotic centre with simulation (Level 1–2), surgery observation and animal lab training.
The programme
- Focus
- Robotic cardiac surgery
- Training type
- Travelling Fellowship (society-funded clinical placement)
- Duration
- 4–6 weeks
- Start
- From January 2027
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- EACTS Francis Fontan Fund (FFF) fellowship
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Senior resident/fellow in cardiac surgical training or young junior surgeon at a hospital performing robotic surgery; access (or near-term access) to a da Vinci system; EACTS member
- International applicants
- Open to EACTS members; the page sets no nationality or EU-residency restriction (EACTS membership is international). Fluent English required.
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Not stated on official page
How to apply
- Deadline
- Application window 1 March – 1 May 2026 (2026/27 cycle closed)
- Application method
- Online application to the EACTS Francis Fontan Fund with letter of support, letter of interest, CV with publications and operative experience (documents in English, Word or PDF)
Funding
- Funding
- Grant of €12,000 plus EACTS Annual Meeting bursary