Overview
AO-funded short-term adult reconstruction / arthroplasty fellowship placement at University Hospital Basel (Basel), a department performing about 2169 surgical cases a year.
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 Foundation fellowship host centre
- Department
- Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Arthroplasty is the main focus of practice; working knowledge of English; under 45 in year of application; AO profile required
- International applicants
- Yes – AO global programme; fellows from any country are placed by AO regional fellowship coordinators (membership and course prerequisites apply)
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Scrub-in: Yes; additional licence/requirement to scrub in: none additional stated. Dominant OR language: German (team English level (4)/5). Documents required: Health insurance coverage in Switerland MRSA-Screening in nose & throat Vaccines: TB, Tetanus, Diphteria, Polio, Hepatitis B
How to apply
- Deadline
- 2027 call closed; 2028 call opens spring 2027
- Application method
- Online application to the AO Foundation during the open call (host centres allocated by AO); not directly to the hospital
Funding
- Funding
- Small stipend towards accommodation and living (benchmark USD 550/week in the US, PPP-adjusted); travel and insurance paid by fellow