AO Fellowships

Name of department: Department for Hand, Plastic, Reconstructive and Burn Surgery

Head of department: Prof. Dr. med. Adrien Daigeler

Surgeon in charge of fellows: Sabrina Krauss

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: 47

Total Orthopedic trauma cases per year: > 1000

Total Polytrauma cases with injury severity score greater than 15 per year: 101–150

Dominant language spoken in the operating room: German

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

Other activities

Didactic meetings, seeing patients in outpatient clinic, observation in other specialties (e.g. trauma or spinal surgery) at our hospital

What other information, documents, or vaccines do you require the fellow to provide?

proof of measels vaccination proof of covid 19 vaccination if existing Strahlenschutzregisternummer (radiation protection registry number)

Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik and University Hospital Tuebingen