Transplant & MCS · Clinical Fellowship (optional Research Track)
Multidisciplinary Heart Failure, Cardiac Transplantation, and Mechanical Circulatory Support Fellowship
McGill University Division of Cardiac Surgery — McGill University Health Centre (Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal Children's Hospital) · Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Montreal · Canada
Programme overview
A fully funded clinical fellowship for a board-eligible or certified cardiac surgeon integrated into MUHC cardiac surgery, the Heart Failure Centre, Heart Transplant and VAD clinics, with weekly cardiac imaging time. The service performs about 1,000 cardiac operations a year including 10–12 heart transplants and 10–20 durable LVADs; an optional research track requires an approved proposal before acceptance.
Associated faculty
Programme relationships are sourced from official material; portraits come from institutional profiles where available. This directory does not infer operative volume or outcomes.
Programme details
- Focus
- Heart failure surgery, transplantation, MCS
- Duration
- 1 year minimum, optional 2 years
- Eligibility
- Fully-trained, board-eligible or certified cardiac surgeon
- Required prior training
- Cardiac surgery
- Funding
- Fully funded (division page); one international meeting supported
- Positions
- 1
- Official contact
- pgcoordinator.med@mcgill.ca
- Data quality
- Official institutional source verified 9 Oct 2026
- Source type
- Official institutional or society page
- Registration
- Fellow must be board-eligible or certified cardiac surgeon
- Language
- English
- Visa information
- Not publicly listed — confirm directly with the host.
- Participation
- Clinical fellowship; privileges depend on credentialing
- International applicants
- Not publicly listed — confirm with the programme
International applicant check
- Clinical participation
- Clinical fellowship; privileges depend on credentialing
- Registration
- Fellow must be board-eligible or certified cardiac surgeon
- Visa
- Not publicly listed — confirm directly with the host.
- Language
- English
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How to apply
Apply through McGill Postgraduate Medical Education ('Apply Now' on the PGME fellowship page); contact pgcoordinator.med@mcgill.ca for fellowship programme questions.
Open official programme page ↗Verification notes
Division page says 'Funding: Fully funded' and names Dr. Renzo Cecere as director, whereas the McGill PGME cardiac surgery fellowship list names Dr. David Drullinsky and lists no deadline. No application dates published.