AO Fellowships

Name of department: Department of Orthopaedics and Anaesthesiology

Head of department: Fabricio Fogagnolo

Surgeon in charge of fellows: Fabricio Fogagnolo

Is there an opportunity for the AO Fellows to scrub in? Yes

Is there any additional / special license required to scrub in? No

Number of beds in department: 60

Total Orthopedic trauma cases per year: 500–1000

Total Polytrauma cases with injury severity score greater than 15 per year: > 150

Other activities: Weekly webinars and surgical cases review meeting, workshops

Dominant language spoken in the operating room: Portuguese

English written and spoken by our team members: written (4)* / spoken (4)*
* Level of proficiency, with 1 equaling basic and 5 equaling proficient.

Hospital das Clinicas, Ribeirao Preto School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo