Overview
Complete Category A training in paediatric pulmonology with a detailed training concept, interdisciplinary meetings and specific teaching rounds three times weekly; up to 20% research time. Covers asthma, CF, prematurity, complex airways, rare lung diseases (incl. PCD), sleep and neuromuscular disease, with about 200 bronchoscopies per year.
The programme
- Training type
- Subspecialty training programme
- Duration
- 3 years paediatric pulmonology (after 4 years general paediatrics, of which 1 year may be in paediatric pulmonology); max. 6 months research and max. 12 months adult pulmonology recognised; 6 months paediatric intensive care
- Start
- Not stated on official page
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- SIWF Weiterbildungsstätte Kategorie A (pädiatrische Pneumologie); prepares for the FMH subspecialty examination
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Paediatric trainees on the Swiss FMH/SIWF pathway; a first-author peer-reviewed publication or medical dissertation is required for the title
- International applicants
- Not stated on official page
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Not stated on official page
How to apply
- Deadline
- Not stated on official page
- Application method
- Contact Prof. Dr. med. Philipp Latzin, Head of Paediatric Pulmonology (philipp.latzin@insel.ch)
Funding
- Funding
- Not stated on official page
Official sources
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