Name of department: Orthopedic surgery, Division of spine
Head of department: Se-Jun Park
Surgeon in charge of fellows: Jin-Sung Park
Head of department: Se-Jun Park
Scrub in
Is there an opportunity for the AO Fellows to scrub in? Yes
Is there any additional / special license required to scrub in? No
More information
Number of beds in department: 40
Total surgical cases per year: 600
Used techniques
Standard open: Yes
Endoscopy: No
Robotics: No
Tuberculosis surgery: Yes
Pain management techniques: No
Minimally invasive surgery: Yes
Anterior surgery: Yes
Spinal navigation: Yes
Intradural surgery: Yes
Thoracoscopy: No
Language
Dominant language spoken in the operating room: Korean
English written and spoken by our team members: written (4)* / spoken (4)*
* Level of proficiency, with 1 equaling basic and 5 equaling proficient.
Spine tumor board (every week)
Multidepartmental spine case conference (every two week)
Orthopedic spine case conference and book review (every week)
Our hospital runs Educational observership program for foreign fellows.
Therefore, AO spine fellow also will follow hospital's rules for observership.
Details about observership program is shown on our hospital website for English version (samsunghospital.com)
