Emanuel Rosen Fellowship
An Annual Clinical Fellowship
Applications are now closed - Deadline: 11 February 2027
Applications now closed
To honour a lifetime of clinical innovation and transformative impact on cataract and refractive surgery, ESCRS offers the Emanuel Rosen Fellowship, celebrating the surgeon who helped ignite the Society’s founding and growth, co-launched the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery with ASCRS, established EuroTimes, and championed advances from intraocular lenses and phacoemulsification to laser refractive surgery, all while serving patients across the NHS and in private practice.
The Fellowship of €60,000 is to allow the applicant to work abroad at a centre of excellence for clinical experience in the field of cataract and refractive surgery, anywhere in the world, for 1 year. The applicant should aim to start the fellowship on the year of awarding, failing that early in the following year.
The successful applicant for the Fellowship is announced at the following ESCRS Annual Congress.
The Emanuel Rosen Fellowship only accepts clinical fellowship applications, for research fellowships please see the Peter Barry Fellowship.
Eligibility Criteria
The Emanuel Rosen Fellowship is a clinical education opportunity for young ophthalmologists who are finalising their formal training in ophthalmology and who are willing to increase their knowledge and/or surgical skills in anterior segment surgery (cataract, cornea or refractive).
Applicants must be young ophthalmologists who are full members of the ESCRS (this will include only ophthalmologists working in Europe by definition who have completed their formal training / residency and about to start their first fellowship or are wishing to start their second year of sub-specialty experience in cataract, cornea or refractive surgery and not in a full or part-time tenured post.
Evaluation Criteria
Applications should contain and will be assessed based on:
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Criterion |
Details |
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Applicant Experience |
A CV including publications, research activities, awards which should indicate clearly the applicants experience in ophthalmology including surgical experience. This will allow the review panel to assess applicants’ suitability for the fellowship according to the eligibility criteria. The candidate should provide a surgical case log in the application. |
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Letter of intent |
1-2 pages, outlining which centre you wish to attend and why. To include details of the process for registration for clinical practice in the host country and any potential difficulties. Additionally your letter of intent should include information on the value added your home institution after the fellowship. |
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Letter of recommendation from head of department |
Supporting the application and outlining impact that the training will have on the home centre and/or region. This should include the scope of their previous training and clinical experience, in particular surgical experience. |
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Letter of support from potential host |
Indicating that they are willing to host the applicant and what they can offer in their training centre, the anticipated surgical experience and a draft clinical timetable. The host institution should offer advanced clinical training including surgery and may offer an opportunity for clinical research. The training centre should state explicitly that the trainee will have hands-on surgical experience during the fellowship |
Fellowship Timeline
Applications for the Fellowship will open in October and close in February.
Upon receipt of the proposal, ESCRS staff will confirm whether a full application has been submitted and that the applicant is eligible as per the criteria presented above.
All applications with administrative fails will be contacted and with a request to complete the application.
Should the applicant(s) not fulfil this, the applications will be discarded and not submitted to the expert panel for evaluation. Applicants of these discarded applications will be immediately informed about the rejection.
Eligible applications will be considered by the expert panel against the quality and relevance of the proposed clinical training programme and eligibility of the fellowship. Reviewers will score applications (with a maximum of 60 points) and add their comments on the proposal within a review form. Factors considered for the evaluation of the applicants are:
- Applicant clinical and surgical experience (including publications, research activities, awards, and suitability for the fellowship).
- Value added to the applicants home institution after the fellowship
- Letter-of-intent (aims of the fellowship, targets to be achieved in the fellowship, cost to benefit relation, post-fellowship plans).
- Feasibility of the candidate to secure a license to practice medicine in the host country on time to start the fellowship.
- Relevant local language requirements to support capability to work in the host country.
- Letter of recommendation from head of department within current institution and the impact that the training will have on the home centre and/or region.
- Letter of support from potential host institution indicating that they are willing to host the applicant
The applications will then be ranked by the returned score, ratified by the panel and then the Education Committee, before the candidates are informed.
After the candidate has accepted the offer, an agreement will be drawn up for signature by the candidate and ESCRS. Please review the template agreement here and therefore confirm on application that you accept and understand the terms. Fellowship Agreement Template
The Fellowship recipient will be announced during the ESCRS Annual Congress.
The fellowship should start the following calendar year and is dependent on national licensing to practice in that country, the process for which should be detailed in the application.
The fellow will submit a fellowship completion report upon completion of the fellowship, signed by the Fellowship host Supervisor.
Every publication of work produced while in receipt of an Emanuel Rosen Fellowship, as well as after the end of the Fellowship, provided that it is the result of work done during the fellowship, must acknowledge the support given by ESCRS.
It is recommended that any publications be submitted to the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (JCRS) in the first instance and if they are published there, up to one paper will be made freely available for all to read at no charge to the authors.
How to Apply
Applicants must first complete the online Emanuel Rosen Fellowship application linked on this page.
Any queries should be sent to escrs@escrs.org
All required information is contained within the form.
Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application following the review process.
This may take 3-4 weeks.
Applications are Now Closed - Deadline: 11 February 2027
Applications now closed