Overview
Five-year general surgery residency (2025 curriculum); the Council also lists fellowships in adult oncological surgery, obesity surgery and gastrointestinal surgery.
The programme
- Training type
- Specialist training programme
- Duration
- 5 years
- Start
- Not stated on official page
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- Iraqi Board for Medical Specializations (national certifying board; graduates receive the Iraqi Board fellowship certificate)
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- General admission criteria of the Iraqi Board for Medical Specializations (published admission rules on the Board website); medical degree recognised in Iraq.
- International applicants
- The Board reports trainees from other Arab countries; specific rules for non-Iraqi applicants not stated on the programme page
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Not stated on official page
How to apply
- Deadline
- Not stated on official page
- Application method
- Application forms and admission terms published by the Iraqi Board for Medical Specializations
Funding
- Funding
- Not stated on official page
Official sources
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