Verona, Italy
WFNS Foundation, Post-Graduate Training Center
International Fellowship Program
Professor Albino Bricolo, M.D. of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University Hospital of Verona, Italy, offers a 3- or 6-month unpaid 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 to perform direct surgical procedures as principle surgeons. The fellows may observe any Neurosurgical subspecialty in progress that they are interested in. These include: brain tumors (under Dr. Turazzi), posterior fossa pathology (under Dr. Massotto), cerebrovascular (under Dr. Pasqualin), spine (under Dr. Faccioli), radiosurgery (under Dr. Gerosa), functional (under Dr. Gerosa), pediatric (under Dr. Mazza), interventional neuroradiology (under Dr. Beltramello) and severe head injury and neurosurgical intensive care (under Dr. Procaccio).
The fellow must participate even actively in the continuing education and training meetings that take place within the department weekly.
The fellow must bear all traveling expenses to and from Verona.
Accomodation is free, and lunch in the hospital is free. For the first 3 months, regardless of the length of total stay, the monthly sum of US$ 1000 can be given to the fellow.
Applications must be made to the WFNS Foundation, (Prof. Armando Basso, armandobasso@aol.com) who, after reviewing the applicants, recommends them to this International Fellowship Program. At the end of completing the fellowship satisfactorily, a Certificate is issued by the University Hospital of Verona and by the WFNS.