Overview
Two-year post-board fellowship in spine surgery run jointly by the Iraqi Board's neurosurgery and orthopaedic councils, with one year in each discipline at centres in Baghdad, Basra and Diwaniyah.
The programme
- Focus
- Spine Surgery
- Training type
- Subspecialty training programme
- Duration
- 2 years (1 year orthopaedic surgery + 1 year neurosurgery)
- Start
- Not stated on official page
- Positions
- 4 trainees proposed per intake (split between orthopaedics and neurosurgery), per the programme document
- Accreditation
- Iraqi Board for Medical Specializations (post-board specialist fellowship approved by the Ministry of Higher Education)
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Holder of the Iraqi Board or Arab Board certificate in orthopaedic surgery or neurosurgery.
- International applicants
- Not stated on official 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
- Through the Iraqi Board for Medical Specializations
Funding
- Funding
- Not stated on official page