Riyadh Military Hospital’s Post-Graduate Training Center
“Prof. Khalaf Al Moutaery, MD, FRCS (Ed), FACS, FACHARZT, at the Riyadh Military Hospital (RMH), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, offers a 3 months paid international fellowship to senior residents, postgraduate fellows, or recently graduated neurosurgeons. During that time the fellows have an observer status only and are not permitted direct patient contact. The fellows have the liberty to observe any Neurosurgical subspeciality they are interested in, which includes: cerebrovascular, brain tumours, spine, epilepsy-functional, paediatric, radiosurgery and interventional neuroradiology. The visiting fellows are strongly encouraged to get involved in writing a paper with one of the attending staff during their stay. The monthly stipend is 1,500 US$ which should cover meals. Lodging will be provided by the Hospital. Travel expenses are not include and are born by the accepted fellows.
The applications should be made to the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) Foundation (Prof. Armando Basso, armandojbasso@aol.com) who after reviewing the applicants would recommend them to this International Fellowship Program. At the end of satisfactorily completing the rotation, Observer Certificates are issued by RMH Neurosurgery and the WFNS.”