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ESMO Clinical Unit VisitESMO offers young oncologists up to 12 Clinical
Unit Visit grants per year at outstanding European, oncology facilities,
for a period of 6 weeks.
Goal
See how oncology care and translational research
are organized in a top cancer center
Benefits
- Establish a privileged link with European institution of
excellence
- Import the high quality
procedures of the host institution in the home institution
- Contribute to career development
Pre-requisites
- Candidates must
- be oncologists or oncologists
in training
- be no more than 39 years of
age
- be current ESMO members (or
must apply for membership)
- have a minimum of 2 years
clinical experience in medical oncology or internal medicine, radiation
oncology or surgical oncology
- contact a host institute, to
organize the clinical visit and obtain the approval-confirmation of both
host and home institutes
- have a reasonable knowledge
of the language of the host country and/or English
It is up to the host institute to decide how many candidates they
are willing to host per year and/or per visit. Candidate's supervisors in both
host and home institute should be preferably an ESMO Full or Associate member
- Application must include:
- Curriculum vitae
- Digital photo
- Motivating letter
- Detailed program of the clinic
visit
- Name of selected host
institute
- Letter of acceptance from the
person responsible for the clinical visit at the host facility
- Letter of recommendation from
the candidate's department head
Amount granted
- The total grant amount for a 6-week
clinical visit is Euro 5,000 in favor of the fellow
- Euro 1,000 is granted to the
host institute to help defray the institution's costs incurred by
administering the clinic visit, etc.
Procedure
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Candidate applies for grant
or, if not an ESMO member yet, applies for ESMO membership and grant
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Applications are received
and checked for completeness by the ESMO Head Office
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Acceptable applications
are reviewed by the ESMO Fellowship and Award Committee
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Grant recipients are
chosen by the ESMO Fellowship and Award Committee based on the originality
and validity of the proposed clinical visit and its relevance to the field of
oncology
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The grant will be
forwarded to the candidate upon receipt of her/his bank account number and
address
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The fellow makes her/his
own travel and accommodation arrangements
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The supervisor of the host
institute monitors the progress of the clinical visit and liaise with the
ESMO Fellowship and Award Committee
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The fellow sends a
detailed report at the end of the clinical visit to the Chair of the ESMO
Fellowship and Award Committee for a short summary publication in the ESMO
Newsletter and full publication on the ESMO Web site (maximum 1,500 words)
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