Overview
AO Trauma short-term fellowship placement in Department of Trauma Surgery at Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, for surgeons focused on fracture care.
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 Trauma fellowship host centre
- Department
- Department of Trauma Surgery
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Active AO Trauma member; completed AO Trauma Basic and Advanced Principles courses; orthopaedic trauma is main part of practice; under 45 in year of application; teaching-hospital employment recommended
- International applicants
- Yes – AO global programme; applications reviewed by the national council of the applicant's country and placed by AO regional fellowship coordinators
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Scrub-in: Yes; additional licence/requirement: none additional stated. Dominant OR language: Dutch (team English level (5)/5). Documents required: Curriculum vitae, passport, letter of recommendation head of (trauma) department. Vaccination passport. We would like to have an interview with the applicant before we accept him in our center. This is mostly to evaluate the skills in English languag
How to apply
- Deadline
- 2027 call closed; 2028 call opens spring 2027
- Application method
- Online application to AO Trauma during the open call (host allocated by regional fellowship coordinator); not directly to the hospital
Funding
- Funding
- AO Trauma fellowship stipend (amount not stated on page)