The 12 month fellowship position in Auckland has unexpectedly become available, commencing October 2025.
This post offers a well established, high-quality, high-volume interventional training in prominent international cardiac centres. The post is funded for 12 months, an expected salary is £60,000, the contribution is equally split between BCIS industry support and the hosting centre. The training programme is primarily focussed on interventional research. As well as offering advanced interventional training, it provides an excellent opportunity to live and work in another country and experience a different healthcare system.
The post is highly competitive and are most suitable for individuals who already have a strong background of interventional training and academic research.
Access to the fellowships is limited to UK trainees in their final two years of Specialist Registrar training who intend to specialise in interventional cardiology and are BCIS members. The supervising consultants act on behalf of the BCIS Training and Education Group.
Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand – Position vacant: October 2025 – October 2026
Previous Incumbent: Dr Andrew Chapman from Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (January 2024 – January 2025)
Here’s what Dr Andrew Chapman had to say about his time in Auckland; “Auckland City Hospital is a quaternary centre providing care for cardiac patients with coronary and structural heart disease. The hospital has four cardiac cath labs and contains the national mechanical circulatory support (ECMO) and cardiac transplant unit. Annually, the department undertake in the region of 1200 percutaneous coronary intervention including a CTO programme and approximately 220 TAVI with four different valve platforms. Additional treatments offered include PFO/ASD/BMV and edge to edge repair.
This is a high volume fellowship with four full days per week in the cath lab, providing outstanding exposure to complex coronary and structural intervention skills. I undertook over 400 PCI cases, 75% of which were image guided (IVUS/OCT). I gained significant experience in all aspects of calcium modification including rotablation, orbital atherectomy, intravascular lithotripsy and utilised all bifurcation techniques, with a large volume of left main stem procedures. I furthered my experience in CTO PCI including the retrograde technique with one list per fortnight.
As I had previous TAVI experience, I was able to support and gain further high-quality training in both balloon expandable and self-expanding valve platforms.
There were a number of educational opportunities. We had a once weekly dedicated PCI training session with the regional interventional consultants in which we presented cases and shared best practice. As fellow, I presented all angiograms for surgical discussion at the weekly cardiosurgical MDT conference. Finally, I had the opportunity to attend North Shore Hospital once a week for a further complex case experience. I was supported to attend a number of educational training courses and conferences throughout Australasia”.
The closing date is Friday 7 March at 5pm. You can apply using the form below.
The shortlisted applicants will be invited to a virtual interview, with a selected panel from the Training and Education Group. Applicants will not be required to prepare any literature or slides. The interviews will take place from 8:30am on Tuesday 18 March.
If you have any queries relating to the application process please email bcis@millbrookconferences.co.uk
