Overview
AO-funded short-term spine surgery fellowship placement at Hamamatsu University School of Medicine (Hamamatsu, Japan) performing about 500 surgical cases a year.
The programme
- Training type
- Training centre / host listing
- Specialty associations
- Not yet verified
- Learning format
- Not yet verified
- Duration
- 4-12 weeks
- Start
- Placement year after selection
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- AO Foundation fellowship host centre
- Department
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Spine physician or orthopaedic, neuro- or trauma surgeon with strong interest in spine surgery; at least one prior AO course/event; at least two years' AO Spine membership; no AO Spine fellowship in past two years (except self-funded); up to 45 years old
- Qualification requirement
- Not yet verified
- Citizenship requirement
- Not yet verified
- Practice location requirement
- Not yet verified
- Membership requirement
- at least two years' AO Spine membership
- Eligibility restrictions
- Not yet verified
- Language
- Not yet verified
- Teaching language
- Not yet verified
- Clinical language
- Not yet verified
- International applicants
- Yes - AO Foundation global programme; fellows from any country are allocated to host centres by AO (membership and course prerequisites apply)
- Licence requirement
- Scrub-in: Yes. Dominant OR language: Japanese (team English written (4) / spoken (4) on a 1-5 scale)
- Visa route
- Not yet verified
- Visa sponsorship
- Not yet verified
- Visa support
- Not stated (fellow arranges visa)
How to apply
- Deadline
- 2028 call opens April 2027 (closes May 2027)
- Application method
- Online application to the AO Foundation during the open call (host centres allocated by AO); not directly to the hospital
- Documents
- Not yet verified
- Contact
- Not yet verified
Funding and costs
- Tuition / fees
- Not yet verified
- Application fee
- Not yet verified
- Stipend / salary
- Small AO Spine stipend towards accommodation and living (benchmark USD 550/week in the US, adjusted for local price level)
- Scholarship
- Not yet verified
- Funding
- Small AO Spine stipend towards accommodation and living (benchmark USD 550/week in the US, adjusted for local price level); travel and insurance paid by fellow
Sources and verification
https://fellows.aofoundation.org/show/aospine/53.htmlhttps://www.aofoundation.org/spine/education/fellowship
Evidence by field
- Membership requirement: legacy record not reverified; checked not recorded. Source 1 Source 2 Derived from Eligibility.
- Stipend / salary: legacy record not reverified; checked not recorded. Source 1 Source 2 Derived from Funding.
- Training type: classification from record; checked not recorded. Source 1 Source 2
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