Overview
Structural-heart programme with catheter-laboratory and hybrid-OR exposure to TAVR, mitral and tricuspid interventions, congenital shunt closure and left-atrial-appendage occlusion.
The programme
- Focus
- Structural heart intervention
- Training type
- International clinical training / fellowship
- Duration
- 1 year; shorter placements of 2 weeks to 6 months can be arranged
- Start
- By arrangement with the programme coordinator
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- FAHZU institutional advanced training; no external board accreditation is stated
- Department
- Department of Cardiology
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Fellows should have completed an accredited cardiology fellowship; residents need at least 3 years of internal-medicine residency; final-year students may also be considered
- International applicants
- Yes — the programmes are published by FAHZU for international fellows, residents, visiting professionals and/or senior medical students
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Training scope is set by FAHZU. Any direct clinical practice by a foreign doctor requires the applicable Chinese short-term practice permit
How to apply
- Deadline
- Not stated on official page
- Application method
- Contact the programme coordinator listed on the linked FAHZU programme page for current instructions
Funding
- Funding
- Programme fee is waived; travel, insurance and living-cost support are not stated