Multidisciplinary Fellowship in
Interventional Oncology (AT)
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The division of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology at the department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided therapy at the Medical University Vienna in Austria (chair: Prof. Dr. Christian Loewe) performs – besides other, vascular, therapies – a broad variation of oncological interventional treatments. These include biliary interventions, arterial liver embolization (TACE, radioembolization), portal vein and hepatic vein embolization, as well as image-guided ablation treatments (navigated microwave ablation). Modern equipment is used including a biplanar angiography system, a combined CT-DSA machine (“Nexaris”) and a navigation system. Comprehensive abdominal and digestive imaging is performed in order to carefully plan the procedures using state-of-the-art imaging equipment including CT scanners with multispectral technology, 3T MRI. Strong collaboration between the clinical departments and groups (hepatology, gastroenterology, hepatobiliary surgery, pancreatic surgery, and visceral surgery), the department of pathology allows optimal patient management and fruitful research.
The combination of an inspiring academic institute and highly subspecialised hepatobiliary and pancreatic practice will make that this two-week multidisciplinary fellowship will be a unique experience for you and your clinical partner to gain knowledge in imaging and multidisciplinary management of patients with hepatobiliary and/or pancreatic disease.
how to apply
Please note:
In 2025, one duo will be accepted at each available hosting institution (see below).
- Only tandem applications will be accepted.
- Young board-certified radiologists and surgeons of up to 40 years of age (at the time of the application) who already work together in a multidisciplinary team at their home institution situated in Europe or outside are eligible to apply for this programme.
- Previous exposure to the expert field is required (subspecialisation).
- Applicants must be fluent in English.
- An active ESR membership for the radiologist is requested. (To renew your ESR Membership or to become an ESR Member, please proceed to the ESR website.)
- As the very baseline of this programme is to gain experience abroad in another institution, applicants will only be able to apply to institutions outside of their country of residence (no exceptions will be made).
- The selected candidates will be asked to provide additional documents to the training centre for administrative purposes.
- A valid Covid-19 vaccination certificate will be required by most hospitals.
- The selected visiting fellows are further asked to take care of their health insurance and are responsible for their visa for which they should apply well in time because of longer waiting periods.
- All applications will be carefully reviewed by an expert evaluation committee after the submission deadline.
All applicants must provide the following documents as a single PDF file:
01
A Joint Letter of Motivation
issued in tandem by the applying radiologist and the applying surgeon shall be provided which explains the gain for the applying departments/ fellows.
The letter should also indicate which of the hosting institutions applicants are interested in visiting.
03
Two Letters of Recommendation
from the heads both departments (radiology and surgery), explaining why and how this tandem visiting fellowship will benefit their department and institution.
Please submit your application per e-mail to isabella.davicino@myesr.org.
*Each candidate is required to submit the provided ESOR CV. Any application with another CV will not be considered. Please note that only complete applications can be considered. To apply for or renew your ESR membership please click here.
Duration of Fellowship and Funding
The two-week visits will take place in the period between September and December 2025 and must be completed by the end of 2025. The final dates of the tandem visits will be fixed by the hosting institutions together with the selected applicants.
The visiting fellows will receive each a grant of €1,000 upon the completion of the visit, delivery of a final report as a team as well as a separate final report from the department chairs of the hosting institution and the submission of original flight tickets and accommodation receipts. The grant is intended to contribute in part to travel and accommodation expenses during the visiting period. ESOR cannot guarantee that the grant will cover these costs in full. During the period of the training the fellows are responsible for covering his/her expenses and his/her own health insurance. The training itself is offered for free. Please note that in particular cases administrative charges may arise, which are to be covered by the grant.
programme structure
The oncological interventional radiologist and the hepatic surgeon will visit the division of general surgery as well as the division of cardiovascular and interventional Radiology at the host institution to learn and observe:
- clinical assessment of patients
- patient management and how to communicate with cancer patients
- definition of interdisciplinary treatment concepts
- Interdisciplinary team conferences
- surgical procedures
- Combined procedures (surgery and intraoperative tumor ablations)
- Preoperative oncological interventions including embolization, liver augmentation (portal and hepatic vein embolization)
- Interventional procedures in the palliative setting (TACE, SIRT)
- Interventional procedures in the curative setting
- post-therapeutic response assesment
- Diagnosis and management of post-therapeutic complications
- And more
IMPORTANT:
Both specialists will meet weekly at multidisciplinary team sessions.
Both specialists are expected to attend in tandem teaching sessions held at both departments for residents and fellows and should teach in tandem to residents and fellows during one of the teaching sessions at the host institution.
Mentors will be assigned to both specialists for the entire duration of the visit.