Faculty / program leadership: Thibault Lafosse · Laurent Lafosse
Profile completeness92%
Comprehensive · Source does not publish application deadline, commencement date
DECISION SUMMARY
Key facts at a glance
Eligibility
International route mentioned
Funding
Salary EUR 1,500 per month; lunch about EUR 3.50 per meal; the Institute may consider funding for surgeons on a one-year fellowship. No fee published.
Deadline
Not published
Duration
3 months (observership/fellowship), 6 months, or 12 months (the home page describes the 12-month option as following up to 500 surgeries)
Hands-on
No hands-on role indicated
Clinical exposureFellows join the shoulder and upper-limb team in the operating theatre, outpatient clinics and research, with more than 500 upper-limb cases a year. The 3-month place may be an observership or fellowship; the 6- and 12-month places are active clinical roles including preoperative assessment, data collection and about 3 research projects over a year.
Participation levelObservational pathway. No independent patient care or operative privileges are implied.
INTERNATIONAL APPLICANT CHECK
Can an international surgeon apply?
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International applicants
Applicants from many countries have completed fellowships. Applicants from outside the EU/Schengen area cannot be offered more than 3 months because of visa constraints.
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Clinical role
Observational pathway; no independent patient care is implied. Hands-on clinical activity is not described for this observational pathway.
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Medical registration
Evidence of full registration with the home-country medical regulatory body.
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Language
No formal language requirement is published by the cited source.
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Visa or work authorisation
Not published beyond the statement that non-EU applicants are limited to 3 months for visa reasons.
DATA QUALITY & AVAILABILITY76% of core application fields verifiedChecked 3 Oct 2026 · Next scheduled editorial review: 2027-04-01
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APPLICATION TIMELINE & CONTACT
Plan the application
Application deadlineNo current deadline published in the cited evidence
Commencing dateIntake date not published
Application route / cycleRolling online application with requested start and end dates; no annual cycle published.
Official contactAlps Surgery Institute (Lydie Reisenthel, practice manager, manages fellows per the home page)+33 4 50 33 04 69
Has passed the specialist orthopaedic exam (or is in the final 2 years of the 6-year training period)
Full registration with the medical regulator of the home country and evidence of health clearance
Reasonably fluent conversational French (essential for the one-year fellowship); English desirable
Good knowledge of data collection and analysis, comfortable with Microsoft Excel and Access
Application documents
Online application form (name, contact details, photo, fellowship type, requested start and end dates, languages)
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
What this program offers
Clinical shoulder and upper-limb fellowship (3, 6 or 12 months) at the Alps Surgery Institute, a SECEC Education Centre in Annecy.
BENEFITS & SUPPORT
Published benefits and support
Reduced-price lunch at the hospital restaurant; participation in ASI courses and meetings as part of the team.
HOST INSTITUTION
About Alps Surgery Institute (Clinique Générale d'Annecy)
Orthoplastic limb-reconstruction centre in Annecy founded in 2005 by Laurent Lafosse as a shoulder-surgery education hub; about 80 shoulder and 10 elbow operations a month per the SECEC centre sheet.
