Overview
Category A2 surgical training for board-certified ophthalmologists in the USB–KSBL training alliance; at least two years can be completed entirely in Basel with cases available in all four surgical segments and trauma experience on call.
The programme
- Training type
- Subspecialty training programme
- Duration
- At least 2 years
- Start
- Any time of year
- Positions
- 6.3 FTE (of which 1.0 at Kantonsspital Baselland)
- Accreditation
- SIWF/ISFM Ophthalmochirurgie category A2
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Holders of the Swiss specialist title in ophthalmology (operations count only after the title)
- International applicants
- Not stated on official page
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Swiss federal medical diploma or MEBEKO-recognised foreign diploma and cantonal registration required for clinical employment (general Swiss requirement; not detailed on the page)
How to apply
- Deadline
- Rolling
- Application method
- Application to the Augenklinik secretariat, USB (motivation letter, CV, certificates, references, surgical log)
Funding
- Funding
- Not stated on official page
Official sources
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