Overview
AO-funded short-term adult reconstruction / arthroplasty fellowship placement at Taipei Veterans General Hospital (Taipei, Taiwan) performing about 10000 surgical cases a year.
The programme
- Training type
- Short-term International Fellowship (observership with scrub-in where permitted)
- Duration
- 6-12 weeks
- Start
- Placement year after selection
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- AO Foundation fellowship host centre
- Department
- Division of Joint Reconstruction, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Arthroplasty is the main focus of practice; working knowledge of English; younger than 45 in year of application; AO Recon course attendance beneficial; teaching-hospital employment recommended
- International applicants
- Yes - AO Foundation global programme; fellows from any country are allocated to host centres by AO (membership and course prerequisites apply)
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Scrub-in: Yes. Dominant OR language: Chinese (team English written (4) / spoken (4) on a 1-5 scale)
How to apply
- Deadline
- Annual AO Recon call (2027 call announced on AO Recon page)
- Application method
- Online application to the AO Foundation during the open call (host centres allocated by AO); not directly to the hospital
Funding
- Funding
- Small AO Recon stipend (benchmark USD 550/week in the US, adjusted for local price level); travel and insurance paid by fellow