Liver Transplant Surgical Fellowship

Objectives

The main objectives of these fellowships are to:

Facilitate the national exchange and development of technical knowledge and skills in transplantation for LTSI fellows and young faculty.

Build capacity of the individual and the home organization through the effective application and dissemination of the newly acquired skills

Support the development of mentor networks of professionals working in liver transplantation for the continued sharing of best practices and knowledge, and the informal provision of ongoing support, guidance or training.

Eligibility criteria

• The applicant must be an LTSI member in good standing and a resident of India

• The applicant must be a registered fellow in training in liver transplantation or a young faculty (within 5 years of completion of training)

• The duration of a fellowship can be between six and eight weeks. Applications for fellowships with shorter or longer durations are not eligible.

• Projects with start dates commencing earlier than 90 days after the submission deadline are not eligible.

• The candidate must be an employee i.e. on the payroll of a relevant institution, such as university, research laboratory or institute, hospital, where they will return at the end of a fellowship.

• Candidates attached to commercial entities, or those associated to the tobacco, alcohol or arms industries are not eligible to apply.

• Only one fellowship can be applied to at a time.

• Candidates who have already obtained an LTSI fellowship in the past may not apply.

Finding a host supervisor and institution

It is the responsibility of the applicant to identify a suitable host supervisor, to make contact with them and obtain their agreement to host and mentor them for the duration of the fellowship visit. An invitation letter from the host supervisor signed by them must be uploaded as part of the application.

Online application

Applicants must submit their applications online, and home and host supervisors are also required to confirm their approval of the fellowship visit.

Application Review Process

• Eligible applications are evaluated by members of an independent expert selection committee according to a peer-review process.

• There will be four awards per year; two given every six months

• The awards application will be announced on August 15 and January 1. Candidates can apply up to one month after the announcement.

• Two or three reviewers will carry out the evaluation of each application.

• Applicants will be informed of the final decision within 90 days of the submission deadline.

Steps:

1. Online Application: Applicants must submit their applications online. Home and host supervisors must also confirm their approval.
2. Application Review by LTSI Panel: Eligible applications will be reviewed by an independent expert selection committee. Two or four candidates will be selected every year.

Eligibility Criteria

1. LTSI member in good standing and resident of India.
2. Registered fellow in liver transplantation training or young faculty (within 5 years of training completion).
3. Fellowship duration: 6-8 weeks.
4. Fellowship Start Date: Must be scheduled no earlier than 90 days from the date of application.
5. Employee of a relevant institution (university, research lab, hospital) to which they will return.
6. Not affiliated with commercial entities, or the tobacco, alcohol, or arms industries.

Application Requirements :

• Fellowship Period:

- Fellowship start and end dates: Specify start and end dates (Total duration cannot exceed 6 - 8 weeks). This is to come in below mentioned document

• SOP: Upload scanned copy of a write-up on your career objectives in applying to this Fellowship - upto 1000 words (Please Highlight):-

- Facilities in your institution: How learned skills will be implemented and disseminated

- Expected transferable skills: Specific skills and knowledge to be gained.

- work plan: Describe planned activities to be agreed upon with the host supervisor

• Letter from home institution granting permission to travel (format attached)
• Letter from the Head of the program ensuring data entry completion in the ILTR

Completion Report: Successful applicants must submit a completion report within six weeks of fellowship completion.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR APPLICATION

Areas of study:

• Deceased donor liver transplant

• Living donor Liver Transplant

• Minimally invasive donor surgery

• Pediatric Liver Transplant

• Any other area as deemed appropriate by selection committee

Project Description

Project start and end dates:

Insert the start and end dates of your planned visit. Visits with start dates that are less than 90 days after the submission deadline will not be considered.

Total number of days of proposed visit duration:

Insert the total number of days of your proposed visit. Fellowship visits can be from six and eight weeks in duration.

Amount requested total:

Please fill the amount requested totals in the application.

Project Title:

Please enter a concise title, no longer than 80 characters.

Topic:

Select your project topic

This is the most important component of your application. It should be prepared by yourself and be approved by your home and host supervisors. It should include sufficient details to allow peer reviewers to evaluate its quality, timeliness, and relevance.

Purpose:

Include specific objectives that you want to achieve as a result of your fellowship visit.

Background:

Provide a summary of the current status of your training relation to your project focus, and describe how this fellowship is relevant, and will support progress in this area, within your local context, institution.

Detailed work plan:

Please provide details of how the specific objectives will be achieved. You should include at least four paragraphs of text in complete sentences where you describe in detail your planned activities during your proposed visit. Please confer with your host supervisor to agree on the workplan.

Expected transferable skills:

Please provide details of the specific skills or new knowledge that will be gained during your visit.

Facilities in your institution:

Please describe if the infrastructure of your home institution will allow you to implement the skills and knowledge learned during your visit, and to disseminate these with relevant individuals.

Reason(s) for choice of host institute:

Please elaborate the reasons for selecting your host institute.

List up to five of your publications which are most relevant to this application:

These applications should include you as one of the co-authors.

Successful applicants will be asked to submit a completion report within six weeks of completion of the fellowship.

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