ESCRS - Emanuel Rosen Fellowship

Emanuel Rosen Fellowship

An annual clinical fellowship

Applications Now Closed

Deadline for applications: 2 March 2025

To honour a lifetime of clinical innovation and transformative impact on cataract and refractive surgery, ESCRS is launching 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. Emanuel Rosen. 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 Emanuel Rosen Fellowship is a clinical education opportunity for young ophthalmologists who have finalised their training in ophthalmology and who are willing to increase their knowledge and/or surgical skills in one specific subspecialty in ophthalmology (adult or paediatric cataract, refractive surgery, cornea etc.). Applicants must be young ophthalmologists working in Europe, with at least 5 years’ experience, and must be ESCRS members by the time the Fellowship begins.

The successful applicant for the Fellowship is announced at each ESCRS Annual Congress, to start the following year.

The Emanuel Rosen Fellowship only accepts clinical fellowship applications, for research fellowships please see the Peter Barry Fellowship.

Evaluation Criteria

Applications should contain and will be assessed based on:

Criterion

Details:

Applicant Experience

A CV including publications, research activities, Awards. Which should indicate clearly the applicants experience in ophthalmology including a surgical logbook. 

Letter of intent

of 1-2 pages, outlining which centre you wish to attend and why

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

Letter of support from potential host

Indicating that they are willing to host the applicant

Please note: ESCRS cannot accept applications from the following countries which are subject to financial sanctions:

    • Cuba
    • Iran
    • North Korea
    • Syria
    • Venezuela
    • Crimea
    • Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia

Fellowship timeline

Applications for the Fellowship will open on the first Monday in December. Applications will be accepted until the first Monday in March.

Applications will be partially blinded to avoid unconscious bias   .

Upon receipt of the proposal, ESCRS staff will confirm whether a full application package 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 of the proposed research importance assessment criteria. Reviewers will score applications (with a maximum of 60 points) and add their comments on the proposal within a review form. The evaluation criteria are set out above. The applications will then be ranked by the returned scored, ratified by the panel and then the Research 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 winner(s) is/are to be announced during the ESCRS Annual Congress. 

The Fellowship should start the following calendar year.


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 a Peter Barry 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 in the first instance. 

How to apply

Applicants must first complete the online Peter Barry Fellowship application form found below. Any queries should be sent to escrs@escrs.org  

Please be sure to submit the following in the below linked application form:

  • A detailed up-to-date CV
  • A letter of intent of 1-2 pages, outlining which centre you wish to attend and why
  • A letter of recommendation from your current Head of Department
  • A letter from your potential host institution, indicating that they will accept you if successful and describing the project(s) that the applicant will undertake within the host institution.

Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application following the review process. This may take 3-4 weeks.

Application Form