Department
Name of department: Department of Orthopedic and Trauma Suregry
Head of department: Mohammad El-Sharkawi
Surgeon in charge of fellows: Osama Farouk
Scrub in
Is there an opportunity for the AO Fellows to scrub in? Yes
Is there any additional / special license required to scrub in? The certificate of graduation from the medical school, the medical license, certificates of orthopaedic training. Limited registration in the local hospital authority is required.
More information
Number of beds in department: 400
Total Orthopedic trauma cases per year: > 1000
Total Polytrauma cases with injury severity score greater than 15 per year: > 150
Other activities: The fellow can attend the orthopedic trauma seminar twice / week, the fellow may rotate in other subspecialties with arrangement in advance, the fellow can attend morbidity and mortality meeting and report of all subspecialty units every month
Language
Dominant language spoken in the operating room: English
English written and spoken by our team members: written (4)* / spoken (4)*
* Level of proficiency, with 1 equaling basic and 5 equaling proficient.