Overview
Two-year abdominal wall surgery fellowship offered every two years since 2015 (current cohort 1 September 2025 – 31 August 2027).
The programme
- Focus
- Abdominal wall / hernia surgery
- Training type
- Clinical fellowship
- Duration
- 2 years
- Start
- Current cohort started 1 September 2025 (next competition expected for 2027)
- Positions
- 1 (competition held every two years)
- Accreditation
- Universidad Austral advanced training scholarship (Beca de Perfeccionamiento) at Hospital Universitario Austral
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Argentine or validated foreign medical degree; completed general surgery residency at an AAC-recognised service (Argentina or abroad); AAC member; age up to 35; full-time
- International applicants
- Foreign physicians must have their degree validated and hold an Argentine national licence (matrícula nacional)
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Argentine national licence; Buenos Aires provincial registration for the HUA area where stated
How to apply
- Deadline
- Not stated on official page
- Application method
- Register via the Universidad Austral online form linked from the Improvement Scholarships page; CV review and interview; contact becarios@austral.edu.ar
Funding
- Funding
- Paid according to the Hospital Universitario Austral scholarship programme, with possible paid external on-call duty
Official sources
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