Gangnam Severance Hospital

Neurosurgery

Contact Information

Gangnam Severance Hospital
Neurosurgery
211 Eonju-ro, Gangnam-gu
06273 Seoul
Korea South
Department
Name of department: Neurosurgery
Head of department: Keun-Su Kim
Surgeon in charge of fellows: Hyun-Jun Jang
Head of department: Keun-Su Kim
Scrub in
Is there an opportunity for the AO Fellows to scrub in? Yes
Is there any additional / special license required to scrub in? Medical doctor license
More information
Number of beds in department: 68
Total surgical cases per year: 2000
Used techniques
Standard open: Yes
Endoscopy: Yes
Robotics: No
Tuberculosis surgery: Yes
Pain management techniques: Yes
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 (2)* / spoken (3)*
* Level of proficiency, with 1 equaling basic and 5 equaling proficient.

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.

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 (Download)  
  • (over 90 days) VISA Application Form

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