Title of Fellowship
Skull Base and Cerebrovascular Surgery
Contact Name for Applications
Meri Dailey
Fellowship Type
Neurosurgical
Location
University of California, Irvine
Year Fellowship Established
2012
Fellowship Director
Frank P K Hsu
Duration
1 year
Encounter Year Fellowship
Required Prior Training Program
Neurosurgery
Required Prior Training Program Other
Accept Foreign Medical Graduates
Yes
Foreign Medical Graduates Eligibility Requirements
Completion of an ACGME residency and pass the ABNS board examination.
Percentage of Fellow Workload that is Skull Base
50
Number of Fellows Accepted Per Year
1
Annual Stipend
Night and Weekend Call
Yes
Estimated Nights Per Month
4
Estimated Weekends Per Month
1
Clinical Work
Total potential operative skull base cases per year
100
Open Cranial Base
Anterior
30
Anterolateral/ Infratemporal
10
Lateral (temporal bone)
30
Posterior
30
Endonasal Cranial Base
Pituitary/Sella
30
Sagittal Plane (excluding pituitary)
30
Transpterygoid/ Coronal Plane
10
Temporal Bone
Transtemporal/ Transcochlear
30
Middle fossa
15
Retrosigmoid
30
Craniofacial Anomalies/ Reconstructive
Craniofacial Anomalies/ Reconstructive
10
Trauma
Trauma
30
Craniocervical
Transcervical
20
Transoral
5
Endonasal
5
Reconstruction
Cranioplasty
40
Regional, Pedicled Flap Repair
30
Free Flap Repair
30
Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Gammaknife
30
Cyberknife
0
Other
0
Cerebral Vascular Surgery
Transcranial
50
Endovascular
50
Additional Information
Anatomical Dissection Laboratory
Laboratory Research Opportunities
Prerequisite Training Required
US Residency Required:
Yes
US Residency Required In:
Alabama
USMLE
Step 1, Step 2
Application Deadline
October 1, 2014
Decision Deadline
March 1, 2014
Fellowship Institution Web Site
Previous Fellows
Participating Faculty
Frank P K Hsu
Kiarash Golshani
Li-Mei Lin
Naveen Bhandarkar
Hamid Djillian
Harrison Lin
Additional Features of the Fellowship
How to Apply
Please send email to
Meri Dailey
[email protected]