ITAOverview
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS is a participating European Society of Endocrinology (ESE) EYES Clinical Observership Programme centre of special interest in diabetes (mentor: Prof. Alfredo Pontecorvi), hosting one-month observerships for early-career endocrinologists.
The programme
- Training type
- Observership
- Specialty associations
- Not yet verified
- Learning format
- Not yet verified
- Duration
- One month
- Start
- Must be completed within 18 months of the award announcement (usually at the ESE EYES Symposium during ECE)
- Positions
- Several observerships per year across all centres (three ESE-funded COP/ROP grants)
- Accreditation
- European Society of Endocrinology (ESE) – EYES Clinical Observership Programme
- Department
- Not yet verified
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Fully paid current ESE member; internal medicine, endocrinology and/or diabetology trainee (specialty or subspecialty); ESE Early Career Investigator
- Qualification requirement
- Not yet verified
- Citizenship requirement
- Not yet verified
- Practice location requirement
- Not yet verified
- Membership requirement
- Fully paid current ESE member
- Eligibility restrictions
- Not yet verified
- Language
- Not yet verified
- Teaching language
- Not yet verified
- Clinical language
- Not yet verified
- International applicants
- Yes – open to ESE early-career members from Europe (and a pilot for the Brazilian partner society SBEM); applicants choose two preferred centres
- Licence requirement
- Observership format (no hands-on practice) due to differing European laws
- Visa route
- Not yet verified
- Visa sponsorship
- Not yet verified
- Visa support
- Not stated on the official page
How to apply
- Deadline
- Not stated for the next round (2026–2027 call closed 12 March 2026)
- Application method
- Online ESE application form with two preferred centres, two recommendation letters, one-page CV and motivation letter
- Documents
- CV (named in recorded application instructions; confirm full checklist)
- Contact
- Not yet verified
Funding and costs
- Tuition / fees
- Not yet verified
- Application fee
- Not yet verified
- Stipend / salary
- Not yet verified
- Scholarship
- Not yet verified
- Funding
- Three ESE-funded observerships of EUR 1,000 each per year; others self-funded; paid after the observership against receipts