Overview
A one-year POCUS fellowship preparing graduates to lead an academic or community emergency ultrasound programme, sufficient to meet ARDMS certification requirements.
The programme
- Training type
- Clinical Fellowship
- Duration
- 1 year
- Start
- Not stated on official page
- Positions
- 1 per year (internal candidates prioritised)
- Accreditation
- Not stated on official page
- Department
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Resident or fellow in a Canadian Royal College programme, or Canadian board-certified physician (FRCP or CCFP-EM)
- International applicants
- Institution policyInternational medical graduates accepted as International Clinical Fellows or Sponsored Fellows if they hold a CPSA-acceptable medical degree, completed residency, verify credentials via physiciansapply.ca, meet CPSA English-language requirements and obtain a work permit; funding must come from a PGME-approved source
- Visa support
- Institution policyInternational fellows need an IRCC work permit valid for the whole fellowship; PGME supplies the LMIA-exemption number for the application and fellows cannot start (or enter Canada for training) without it
- Licence requirement
- Eligibility and registration with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta; medical liability insurance
How to apply
- Deadline
- 15 January of the preceding academic year
- Application method
- Send CV and cover letter to the programme
Funding
- Funding
- Institution policyNo PGME funding; clinical fellows must be funded by a PGME-approved source (department/AHS/sponsoring government, hospital or university - no personal funds), with stipend at least equivalent to PGY1 under the Alberta Resident Physician Agreement