Multidisciplinary Fellowship in
paediatric liver transplants (UK)
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King’s College Hospital hosts one of the largest paediatric liver centres in Europe, the largest in the UK, with approximately 45-50 children transplanted every year. The Radiology Department offers an extensive range of imaging services to the paediatric liver centre, including contrast enhanced and multiparametric ultrasound, post-operative US scans in transplant recipients, 2 lists a week of liver biopsies under GA, a wide range of CT and MR scans, from neonates to young adult patients with acute and chronic liver disease. We have a large population of patients with autoimmune liver disease and portal hypertension under surveillance and we follow them into the transition clinics.
The paediatric transplant program includes deceased and living donor liver transplant (LT). Split and reduced donor livers represents 2/3 of the LT in children. King’s is also a reference unit for children with acute liver failure. Other pioneering surgical treatments offered are auxiliary liver transplant mainly for children with acute liver failure and paediatric DCD liver transplant.
We are an Academic Health Science centre for research, and we work closely with the surgical and clinical departments, collaborating in research projects and clinical trials in our Institute of Liver Studies and the Alex Mowat Paediatric Research Laboratories. There is one radiology led paediatric liver meeting every week and a further large, weekly multidisciplinary meeting with all specialties involved in the care of these patients including listing meeting, management of inpatients, histology; a dedicated paediatric liver oncology meeting is also part of this, and we review a large number of liver cancer patients as a quaternary referral centre. If you join us for this multidisciplinary fellowship, you and your colleague can experience all of this first hand and gain and share knowledge in diagnosing and managing children with liver disease.
how to apply
Please note:
In 2024, 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 2024 and must be completed by the end of 2024. 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 paediatric abdominal radiologist will visit the department of surgery at the host institution to learn and observe:
– surgical indications
– patient management and how to communicate with cancer patients
– post operative complications
– surgical procedures
The paediatric digestive/hepatobiliary surgeon will visit the department of radiology at the host institution to learn and observe:
– how to use imaging for accurate clinical decision making
– imaging techniques
– imaging of post-operative complications
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.