Center Eligibility for LTSI LIVER Critical Care Fellowship:
Accreditation of Centers: Criteria and Requirements
Eligible Centers:
Only Indian centers registered with LTSI and ILTR are eligible.
The fellowship is single-center based with eligibility reviewed every five years.
Application Process:
Centers must submit an official application form (signed by the Program Director/Chairman and Hospital CEO/Medical Superintendent/DMS) along with a fee of Rs. 10,000.
The application confirms the center’s accountability regarding case volume, infrastructure and the presence of a dedicated transplantation team.
Training Infrastructure:
Accredited centers must facilitate rotations in allied departments (Transplant Surgery, Transplant Hepatology, Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology, Histopathology, Gastroenterology) to ensure a holistic training experience.
The center offering the LTSI Transplant Critical Care Fellowship must be doing a minimum of 50 liver transplants annually. A maximum of 2 candidates can be accepted annually by each center.
The center should manage at least 100 non-transplant liver critical care icu admissions annually.
Faculty Requirements:
Presence of at least one Lead (Transplant Anaesthesia and/or Critical Care and/or Hepatology) and one Senior clinician to supervise 2 fellows per center.
all teaching faculty should be LTSI members.
Renewal Guidelines:
An inspection committee (comprising the LTSI President, Secretary, and fellowship & education task force members) will review the fellowship places and case volumes every two years to ensure compliance and quality.
Fellow Intake:
One candidate can be registered per 50 cases done annually at a center. Thus for a center doing 100 cases annually, 2 candidates can register.
The center can decide whether the annual intake of fellows is in one or two sitting.
For centers with registered candidates, if the caseload decreases to less than 50 cases per annum, then the candidate should be rotated to another eligible center to ensure the case exposure requirement.
Fellowship Duration & Funding:
For those candidate who have completed at least 1 year of Senior Residency, the duration of the fellowship course is 1 year.
For candidates who are fresh pass-outs of their MD examinations, the duration of the fellowship course is 2 years.
During the training period, all fellows will be paid a monthly stipend/salary by the center.