The Irish Clinical Academic Training (ICAT) Programme is opening an application call for fellowships on the 22nd of August 2024.
We are particularly encouraging applications from trainees in Northern Ireland this year, we have three fellowships available for trainees on a NIMDTA training scheme, and they are also eligible for the general call.
The deadline for receipt of applications is 27th of September 2024. There will be a webinar for applicants on the 28th of August. The fellowship interviews will take place on the 11th of December and successful candidates will take up their fellowships in July 2025.
The ICAT-2 Programme is an all-Ireland partnership comprising six universities (University of Galway, QUB, TCD, UCD, UCC, RCSI), the clinical training authorities North and South, the Health Research Board, HSE National Doctors Training and Planning, Health and Social Care R&D, Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency, College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Forum of Irish Postgraduate Training Bodies.
ICAT is founded on the principles of providing integrated, fellow-centric clinical academic training to excellent postgraduate clinical trainees across all disciplines of human medicine, veterinary medicine and dentistry through a programme which integrates PhD research training of the highest quality with higher specialist training.
Fellowships available in 2025:
- General Medical and Dental Call: fellowships available, open to applicants who are medical and dental graduates enrolled on higher specialist training schemes in Ireland or Northern Ireland.
- Veterinary Call: Up to 2 veterinary fellowships available, applicants should be nearing completion or have recently completed specialist training.
- Specialty Diversity Call: 1 fellowship available, the recipient must be a trainee in one of the listed specialties (see below).
- Northern Ireland Call: Up to 3 fellowships available for trainees enrolled in a medical or dental training scheme in Northern Ireland. These trainees are also eligible for the General Call
- Anaesthesiology Call: 1 fellowship available for a trainee enrolled in a College of Anaesthesiologists higher specialist training scheme. These trainees are also eligible for the General Call and the Specialty Diversity Call.
Trainees from the specialties listed below are eligible for the Specialty Diversity Call as well as the General Call:
- General Practice
- Opthalmology
- Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Pathology (excluding Haematology, Immunology and Clinical Microbiology)
- Anaesthesiology
- Palliative Medicine
- Emergency Medicine
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- All Surgical Specialties
We will add further details on this page such as any application form and guidance notes when these become available or look at the ICAT Website.