Five conferences are held every day from 7:00 am. It is conducted in Korean, but slides are shown in English, and discussions are possible in English.

Host center description

• 80–90%: Conventional Open Surgery

• 10–20%: MIS Surgery (MIS TLIF, UBE, OLIF, UBE Fusion)

Every Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:00 AM, we hold a conference in the meeting room. On your first Tuesday here, we would appreciate it if you could prepare a brief self-introduction (10–20 minutes) with a simple PPT presentation for social bonding and icebreaking.

Department of Spinal Neurosurgery
International Fellowship Introduction

Welcome.
Thank you for your interest in our institution.
Below is a summary of our staffs, surgeries, conferences, and presentations to look forward to from you. It will help you decide to have a fellowship here.

1. Staffs
Seven staff perform various types of spinal surgery. About 2,000 surgeries are performed a year, of which about 600 are cervical surgeries, about 3-400 are MISS, 100 are tumors, 100 are deformity surgeries, and the remaining 1000 are open thoracolumbar surgeries.

Name; Specialty; Surgery Date

• ‍‍Keun-Su Kim; Cervical (degenerative, Deformity, Tumor); Mon, Tue
• Yeong-Sul Yoon; Pain Procedure, Osteoporosis; Clinic based
• Dong-Kyu Chin; Degenerative, Myelopathy (Lumbar and Cervical); Wed, Thu, Fri
• Jeong-Yoon Park; Minimal invasive spinal surgery (OLIF, MIS-TLIF, UBE,…); Tue, Thu
• Kyung-Hyun Kim; Deformity, Degenerative, Tumor; Wed, Fri
• Bong-Ju Moon; Deformity, MISS, Degenerative, Myelopathy; Tue, Fri
• Hyun-Jun Jang; Tumor, Degenerative, MISS; Mon, Wed
• Dong-Kyu Kim; MISS, Degenerative, Trauma; Wed

2. Conference Schedule
Five conferences are held every day from 7:00 am. It is conducted in Korean, but slides are shown in English, and discussions are possible in English.

• Tue 7:00: Journal Conference; 161 Room of 6th Floor in 1st building
• Tue 7:00: Multicenter Case conference; 161 Room of 6th Floor in 1st building
• Wed 7:00: Radiology conference; 161 Room of 6th Floor in 1st building
• Thu 7:20 (1st, 3rd weeks): Spine Hospital Case conference (with OS, RM, AN department); Medium auditorium of 2nd Floor in 2nd building
• Fri 7:00: Research conference; 161 Room of 6th Floor in 1st building

3. Fellowship attendee presentation
Your presentation will help us communicate with you and improve our fellowship program on the schedule below. Please refer to the introduction below and freely present it.

Day; Time (Recommended presentation time); Recommended topic

• Monday of Second week; 7 AM, 161 room
  (15~20 min) About you, your hospital, surgery, your country, your life, hobbies, etc,
• Monday of last week of your fellowship period; 7 AM, 161 room
  (5~10 min) Feedback about your time in our hospital, Korea, etc

• English CV / Resume
• Medical Doctor's License (with issue date)
• Certificate of Specialty (if applicable)
• Proof of Employment (Past and Present : you must prove that you satisfy the qualifications stated above)
• Copy of Passport
• Self-portrait photo (Passport-type)
• Immunization Form  
• (over 90 days) VISA Application Form