Overview
An academically oriented ERCP/EUS and luminal therapeutics fellowship with about 1,600 ERCPs and 1,300 EUS a year and mandatory research.
The programme
- Training type
- Clinical Fellowship
- Duration
- 1-2 years (two-year candidates with concurrent graduate degree prioritised)
- Start
- 1 July
- Positions
- 1-2 per year
- Accreditation
- Not stated on official page
- Department
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Peter Lougheed Centre)
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Training in basic endoscopy (gastroscopy and colonoscopy) required; typically trained gastroenterologists, general surgeons also welcomed.
- 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
- 31 March the year prior to fellowship start; interviews late May/early June
- Application method
- Application documents plus 3 reference letters sent directly by referees to the GI programme administrator
Funding
- Funding
- Fully funded by the Pentax Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy Fellowship Award, up to CAD 75,000/year