Eligibility and Selection: Qualifications and Application Process

• Candidate Requirements:
• Applicants must hold a recognized medical degree (as listed in the WHO directory of medical schools).
• All candidates must be registered to practice medicine in India. Foreign graduates must maintain registration with the MCI throughout the training.
• Candidates should have completed broad-based general surgical training, including:
• An MS/DNB in General Surgery; and
• At least three years of higher surgical training (e.g., MCh/DNB in GI Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Pediatric Surgery, or equivalent experience as a senior resident or junior faculty with exposure to gastrointestinal/HPB/Transplant Surgery).

• Training Exposure:
• The fellowship training involves rotations through OPD, ICU, wards, and theatre.
• Trainees must experience both DDLT and LDLT, along with pediatric and adult liver transplantation. In centers lacking certain exposure, additional postings (within India or abroad) are required.

• Additional Postings:
• Transplant Hepatology – 2 weeks
• Transplant Anaesthesia
• Transplant Endoscopy & Diagnostic/Interventional Radiology – 2 weeks
• Liver Pathology – 2 weeks
• Infectious Disease – 2 weeks
• Transplant ICU – 4 weeks
• External posting at another accredited center for 2 weeks (or at an agreed international center)

• Academic Requirements:
• Fellows must participate in academic activities (seminars, journal clubs, case presentations) and maintain a comprehensive (or electronic) logbook of clinical and academic activities.

• Examination Fee:
• Candidates are required to pay Rs. 20,000 to LTSI for the Exit Examination and certification process.