Overview
Exchange at a tertiary hospital with over 80 anaesthesia specialists offering all surgical specialties.
The programme
- Focus
- General anaesthesiology and intensive care
- Training type
- Exchange / Observership / Hands-on
- Duration
- Up to 3 months; available all year
- Start
- Exchanges scheduled in the year after selection (2027 placements already matched)
- Positions
- Limited spots per host centre
- Accreditation
- ESAIC Exchange Programme (EP) host centre
- Department
- Department of Anaesthesiology / Intensive Care
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- ESAIC Active/Trainee member working in Europe; resident/young specialist (at least 3rd-year trainee, up to 4th year post-residency) or specialist (5th year post-residency or more senior), as accepted by the host. Accepts: residents and specialists
- International applicants
- Restricted: applicant must be an ESAIC Active/Trainee member actively working in Europe (WHO European Region) at the deadline. Doctors working outside Europe are not eligible
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Language: English/Spanish. Legal requirements: Ministry of Health hospital-stay paperwork; specialty qualification and civil liability insurance
How to apply
- Deadline
- 2027 call closed; 2028 call opens May 2027 (usually mid-May to end of June)
- Application method
- Binding online application to ESAIC (call opens mid-May, closes end of June) with supporting documents; ESAIC matches applicants to host centres by merit and preference; selected fellows submit a report within 1 month
Funding
- Funding
- No salary. ESAIC symbolic support only for residents/specialists from European lower- and upper-middle-income countries; AIG travel insurance and reduced Euroanaesthesia registration for all selected candidates