✓ Verified 11 Oct 2026♡
Short Course Active application Foot & Ankle
Université Grenoble Alpes, UFR Médecine (with CHU Grenoble Alpes)
⌖ Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes · France →
Duration 1 year: 96 hours in 4 seminars (compulsory attendance) at…
Funding Self-funded: EUR 610 (initial training, plus inter-university fees) or EUR 730 (continuing…
Course format Seminars cover foot and ankle anatomy with laboratory dissection, clinical/paraclinical exam, flaps, cavus foot, Haglund; static…
✓ Verified 11 Oct 2026♡
Short Course Active application Hip & Knee
Université Grenoble Alpes, UFR Médecine (with CHU Grenoble Alpes)
⌖ Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes · France →
Duration 1 year: 40 hours in 4 two-day seminars (2026/2027 dates to be…
Funding Self-funded: EUR 660 (initial training, plus inter-university fees) or EUR 1,310 (continuing…
Course format Fundamental and clinical teaching across knee pathology: menisco-ligamentous injury; patellofemoral and degenerative disease; knee…
✓ Verified 12 Oct 2026♡
Short Course Current availability unconfirmed ↻ 2026–2027 course; application window unconfirmed Hand & Microsurgery
Université de Lille, Faculty of Medicine (UFR3S Médecine)
⌖ Lille, Hauts-de-France · France →
Duration 1 year, November 2026 – June 2027: 100 hours over 6 two-day…
Funding Self-funded: EUR 1,700 (student rate) or EUR 2,200
Course format 51 hours of theory and 49 hours of supervised cadaver dissection of the main flaps used on the face, trunk and limbs (injected upper…
✓ Verified 11 Oct 2026♡
Short Course Current availability unconfirmed Hand & Microsurgery
Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), Faculté de Médecine et Sciences de la Santé de Brest
⌖ Brest, Brittany · France →
Duration 120 hours over 2 years (8 seminars); each year November to…
Funding 2026–2027 tuition: EUR 980 per year for continuing education; EUR 520 per year for DES…
Course format Western-France hand surgery diploma: complex wounds (acute and secondary), hand/finger and wrist bone-joint trauma, congenital hand,…
✓ Verified 11 Oct 2026♡
Short Course Active application Hand & Microsurgery
IRCAD France (Research Institute against Digestive Cancer — surgical training centre) with the International Wrist Center (IWC); supported by IWAS and APWA
⌖ Strasbourg, Grand Est · France →
Duration 2 days (advanced/master edition 27–28 November 2026; next…
Funding Self-funded: advanced and master options from EUR 2,640; auditor option from EUR 640 (includes…
Course format Theoretical sessions plus hands-on wrist arthroscopy on anatomical specimens. Basic course for surgeons interested in hand/wrist…
✓ Verified 11 Oct 2026♡
Short Course Current availability unconfirmed ↻ Next intake unconfirmed Sports Medicine
Université de Lorraine, Faculté de Médecine, Maïeutique et métiers de la Santé à Nancy
⌖ Nancy, Grand Est · France →
Duration 1 year; 96 teaching hours in three thematic seminars, plus a…
Funding Published tuition: EUR 500 plus CVEC for initial training; EUR 1,000 for employer-funded or…
Course format Knee (general principles, synovial and cartilage pathology, menisci, ligaments, ligament reconstruction), shoulder (general…
✓ Verified 11 Oct 2026♡
Short Course Current availability unconfirmed ↻ Next intake unconfirmed Sports Medicine
Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), Faculté de Médecine et Sciences de la Santé de Brest
⌖ Brest, Brittany · France →
Duration 96 teaching hours plus practical placements; recurring…
Funding 2026/2027 tuition: EUR 1,200 for continuing education or EUR 450 for DES interns. These are…
Course format National inter-university arthroscopy diploma organised with the Société Francophone d'Arthroscopie: 96 hours of theory in three…
✓ Verified 14 Oct 2026♡
Short Course Active application Hand & Microsurgery
Université de Caen Normandie, UFR Santé
⌖ Caen, Normandy · France →
Duration 2 academic years; 120 hours across 8 two-day seminars, with…
Funding Not published
Course format In-depth hand and upper-limb surgery teaching for orthopaedic and plastic surgeons, in partnership with the other DIU universities;…
✓ Verified 11 Oct 2026♡
Short Course Active application Sports Medicine
Université de Tours, Faculté de Médecine
⌖ Tours, Centre-Val de Loire · France →
Duration 1 academic year: 96 hours of theory in 3 seminars of 2–3 days,…
Funding Current tuition and any funding award are not published in the reviewed course page or 2026–2027…
Course format National inter-university arthroscopy diploma organised with the Société Francophone d'Arthroscopie: 96 hours of theory in three…
✓ Verified 12 Oct 2026♡
Short Course Current availability unconfirmed ↻ 2026–2027 opening conditional Hand & Microsurgery
Université de Poitiers, UFR Santé (with CHU de Poitiers)
⌖ Poitiers, Nouvelle-Aquitaine · France →
Duration 2 years: 160 hours in 8 seminars (4 per year)
Funding Self-funded (quote on request)
Course format Seminars rotate across the eight Grand-Ouest faculties (Poitiers hosts fundamentals: wrist and digital biomechanics, anatomy,…
✓ Verified 15 Oct 2026♡
Short Course Active application Hand & Microsurgery
Université de Lille, Faculty of Medicine (UFR3S Médecine), with the French national federation of hand-surgery DU/DIU
⌖ Lille, Hauts-de-France · France →
Faculty & leadership CC Christophe Chantelot (Lille director)MS Marc Saab (Lille director)+8 more
Duration 2 years (111 hours; 6–8 sessions of 6 hours of theory per…
Funding Self-funded tuition: EUR 1,000 per year (EUR 300 per year for interns)
Course format Structured national hand-surgery curriculum set by the French College of Hand Surgery Teachers. Year A: fundamentals,…
✓ Verified 11 Oct 2026
