Overview
Two study bursaries a year for young ENT doctors to spend a university year on otology/otoneurology research in a recognised French or foreign laboratory, or for a French ENT to train in a foreign ENT department; they may also fund a young foreign ENT trainee to do clinical or basic research in a French CHU or CHU-linked laboratory.
The programme
- Training type
- Research fellowship
- Duration
- One university year
- Start
- Not stated on official page
- Positions
- 2 bursaries per year
- Accreditation
- Society bursary; applications scored by three experts and approved by the AFON bureau.
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Typically an ENT resident (interne) or assistant taking a year out for research; young foreign ENT trainees who have not completed clinical/university training are also eligible for placements in French CHUs.
- International applicants
- Young foreign ENT trainees eligible for research placements in a French CHU.
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Not stated on official page
How to apply
- Deadline
- Applications open 15 February; deadline 15 May; decision by 30 June (per AFON rules of 20 November 2023)
- Application method
- Email a PDF file (CV, academic career plans, host lab, structured research project, co-funding, conflicts of interest) to the AFON bursary officer (tmom@chu-clermontferrand.fr).
Funding
- Funding
- €20,000 (amount set for 2021; current amount not stated)
Official sources
Similar programmes
FRA · Otology & neurotologyCWJ Short Otology Fellowship – BéziersTWJ Foundation – Béziers otology hostFRA · Otology & neurotologyInter-University Diploma (DIU) in Audiology and Medical Otology – Audio-Vestibular Disorders from Child to AdultUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 – Faculté de Médecine Lyon Sud (Hospices Civils de Lyon)FRA · Otology & neurotologyInter-University Diploma (DIU) in Exploration and Rehabilitation of Balance DisordersUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (with Grenoble, Saint-Étienne, Clermont-Ferrand) – Hospices Civils de LyonFRA · Otology & neurotologyInter-University Diploma (DIU) in Management of Audio-Vestibular Disorders – from Mechanisms to PracticeUniversité Paris Cité – Faculté de Santé (Hôpital Lariboisière and Hôpital Robert-Debré, AP-HP)FRA · Otology & neurotologyInter-University Diploma (DIU) in Vertigo and Vestibular RehabilitationSorbonne Université – Faculté de Santé (Saint-Antoine and Pitié-Salpêtrière sites)FRA · Otology & neurotologyUniversity Diploma (DU) in Implantable Hearing Devices in AdultsSorbonne Université – Faculté de Santé (Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP)