The Irish Clinical Academic Training (ICAT) Programme is seeking to appoint its next cohort of individuals who aspire to become the next generation of clinical academic leaders.
We would like to invite applications from trainees who have a passion for research and who are entering, or in the early stages of higher specialist training across all disciplines of human medicine, veterinary medicine and dentistry (see website for full eligibility criteria).
ICAT is opening for applications on the 13th of August 2025; the deadline for receipt of applications is the 17th of September 2025. There will be a webinar for applicants on the 20th of August. The fellowship interviews will take place on the 10th of December and successful candidates will take up their fellowships in July 2026.
The ICAT-2 Programme is an all-Ireland partnership comprising six universities (University of Galway, QUB, TCD, UCD, UCC, RCSI), the clinical training authorities North and South, the Health Research Board, HSE National Doctors Training and Planning, Health and Social Care R&D, Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency, College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Forum of Irish Postgraduate Training Bodies.
ICAT is founded on the principles of providing integrated, fellow-centric clinical academic training to excellent postgraduate clinical trainees across all disciplines of human medicine, veterinary medicine and dentistry through a programme which integrates PhD research training of the highest quality with higher specialist training.
Fellowships available in 2026:
- General Medical and Dental Call:
- open to applicants who are medical and dental graduates enrolled on higher specialist training schemes in Ireland or Northern Ireland.
- Veterinary Call:
- applicants should be nearing completion or have recently completed specialist training.
- Specialty Diversity Call:
- the recipient must be a trainee in one of the listed specialties (see below).
- Northern Ireland Call:
- fellowships available for trainees enrolled in a medical or dental training scheme in Northern Ireland.
- These trainees are also eligible for the General Call.
Trainees from the specialties listed below are eligible for the Specialty Diversity Call as well as the General Call:
- General Practice
- Opthalmology
- Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Pathology (excluding Haematology, Immunology and Clinical Microbiology)
- Anaesthesiology
- Palliative Medicine
- Emergency Medicine
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- All Surgical Specialties
We would like to encourage applications from dental trainees (on schemes in Ireland or Northern Ireland) and from medical trainees enrolled in, or entering training schemes in Northern Ireland.
***It is important to note that the eligibility criteria for applicants has been updated for the upcoming fellowship call. A minimum period of higher specialist training post-PhD is not required, enabling trainees to enter at a later stage of training. However, ICAT remains an integrated research programme, and trainees may not complete CSCST/CCT until the end of an ICAT fellowship. Please see the ICAT website for further details.***
www.ICATprogramme.org @ICATProgramme
The application call will open online on 13th of August 2025
The deadline for applications is at 1pm (local Ireland time) on the 17th of September 2025
Please refer to our website for a detailed overview of the application call and eligibility criteria.
Register for the webinar on the website
@ICATProgramme