Practical Issues

Location and duration

The fellowship consists of two stages, combined spanning a period of 6 months. The first three months the fellow will be based in Rotterdam, where he/she can ‘cherry-pick’ from the operative lists of six different specialised hospitals and private clinics in the region (Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht) on a daily basis. These units are all within a 45min range of each other:

  • The Erasmus Medical center, which consists of:
  1. The Adult hospital: Dr Marc Mureau & Dr Heike Klepetko
  2. The Oncological Center: Dr Marc Mureau & Dr Heike Klepetko
  3. The Childrens Hospital (Dutch Craniofacial Center): Dr Jacques van der Meulen
  • The Utrecht Medical Center: Professor Moshe Kon
  • The Velthuis private Clinic in Rotterdam: Dr Heike Klepetko & Dr Jacques van der Meulen
  • The Bergman private Clinic in The Hague: Dr Jerome Stevens

The second three months will subsequently be spent in one of the following locations:

  • The EMC’2 private clinic in Gent, Belgium: Dr Patrick Tonnard & Dr Alex Verpaele
  • LaClinic in Montreux, a leading private clinic on the shore of lake Geneva, Switzerland: Dr Michel Pfulg & Dr Serge Lȇ Huu
  • Royal Free NHS & The Wellington private hospital, London, United Kingdom: Dr Adrian Grobbelaar, Dr Barry Jones & Dr Douglas Harrison
  • Marien Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany: Professor Wolfgang Gubisch & Dr Helmut Fischer

Please visit the respective pages for more information on the units and their supervising doctors.

 

Accommodation and transportation

Transportation is provided for and a car is available free of charge (within reasonable limits). A furnitured apartment is available during the course of the fellowship, in Rotterdam as well as in Gent and Montreux. Your cost of accommodations will be considerably subsidized by our department, based on the two fellows sharing the apartment. A monthly rent of approximately €750 will be charged to you for each of the first three months in Rotterdam and €500 per month for the period in Gent. The fellow will not recieve a salary, but due to the official endorsement  of the European Association of Plastic Surgery (EURAPS) prospective fellows can apply to one of their grants.

Official clearance

Once accepted into the program, the fellow will have to provide us with the following before the start of the fellowship:

  • Signed copy of English translation of medical qualification
  • Certificate of good standing (in English) by the Medical Board of your residing country
  • Certified copy of your passport
  • Copy of driving licence (.pdf preferably)
  • Recent hepatitis-B immune status (max. 6 months ago)
  • Results of recent MRSA nose and throat swap (max. 1 month ago)

Once arrived at the EMC at the start of the fellowship, the fellow will have to be tested for TBC and MRSA status. This process of clearance by our medical department will typically take 3-5 working days. After that you will be able to join in with the surgeries and scub when possible.

Visa

Each fellow is responsible for obtaining the appropriate visa needed to come to different countries in Europe. If the request for a visa is rejected, the right for joining the fellowship is automatically revoked. The DAFPRS can not be held responsible for fellows not able to obtain their visa.