Programme directory · Page 26
Browse the next group of source-backed profiles. Review each programme’s eligibility and official application route before applying.
Evidence filters describe the available information. Published criteria do not guarantee eligibility, funding or a vacancy; missing information does not mean you are ineligible.
Intake not confirmedThe Mount Sinai Hospital / Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York · United States
A one-year Mount Sinai fellowship combining ablative head and neck oncologic surgery with microvascular free flap reconstruction; plastic surgery graduates are among those eligible.
Intake not confirmedLeeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust — Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Leeds, England · United Kingdom
Leeds plastic surgery, which describes itself as having the largest microsurgery services in the UK, lists subspecialty fellowship training programmes in microsurgery, skin cancer and aesthetic surgery (hand fellowship listed separately).
Intake not confirmedTUM Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich — Section of Hand Surgery
Munich · Germany
The TUM Section of Hand Surgery is registered with FESSH as a training centre offering research and self-funded fellowship places in trauma, microsurgery and wrist instability. The FESSH entry dates from 2020 and the section's leadership has since changed, so availability should be confirmed.
Intake not confirmedKrankenhaus Barmherzige Brüder Regensburg — Klinik für Plastische, Hand- und wiederherstellende Chirurgie
Regensburg · Germany
The Regensburg plastic, hand and reconstructive surgery department is listed by FESSH as offering observer attachments and self-funded fellowships, with a focus on hand trauma and additional interest in peripheral nerve and brachial plexus surgery. The listing is older (2012) but the department and its chief are unchanged.
Intake not confirmedRKH Orthopädische Klinik Markgröningen — Zentrum für Hand- und Plastische Chirurgie
Markgröningen · Germany
The Markgröningen hand and plastic surgery centre is registered with FESSH as offering observer attachments and fellowships, with a listed special interest in wrist arthroscopy. The centre's own page highlights wrist arthroscopy, Dupuytren's disease and congenital hand surgery.
Medical DirectorMax Haerle, MD
Intake not confirmedCentre de la Main (Village Santé Angers Loire)
Trélazé · France
Private hand and upper-limb centre near Angers listed by FESSH as a training centre offering fellowships. Clinical focus covers brachial plexus, congenital hand, trauma, microsurgery and Dupuytren's disease.
Intake not confirmedCentre de la Main — Clinique du Pré (SOS Main Le Mans)
Le Mans · France
FESSH-listed observer attachment at the SOS Main hand emergency centre of Clinique du Pré, which reports about 30 urgent or scheduled hand operations a day. Research opportunities are also listed.
Intake not confirmedInselspital, Universitätsspital Bern — Universitätsklinik für Plastische- und Handchirurgie
Bern · Switzerland
Bern's university clinic for plastic and hand surgery is registered as a FESSH hand surgery training centre offering self-funded observer attachments. Its own training page lists clinical training stays for Swiss and foreign doctors alongside weekly teaching and case conferences.
Intake not confirmedSchulthess Klinik — Fachbereich Handchirurgie
Zurich · Switzerland
The orthopaedically based hand surgery unit at Schulthess Klinik in Zurich is listed by FESSH as a training centre offering self-funded visitations. The department is an SIWF-certified postgraduate training centre.
Hand surgery host / named contactDaniel Herren, MD, MHA
Intake not confirmedCentro manoegomito, Clinica Ars Medica
Gravesano · Switzerland
A certified Swiss training centre in hand and orthopaedic surgery near Lugano, listed by FESSH as offering research and self-funded observer attachments. The centre's own site lists it as a FESSH training centre, an SIWF hand surgery training site and part of the four-canton hand surgery training network.
Intake not confirmedUniversity Hospital Zurich (USZ) — Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery
Zurich · Switzerland
USZ's Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery is listed by FESSH as a hand surgery training centre offering research and self-funded observer attachments covering a wide range of hand surgery. This is distinct from the department's robotic lymphatic microsurgery fellowship; the FESSH entry dates from 2012, so availability should be confirmed.
Intake not confirmedErasmus MC
Rotterdam · Netherlands
Erasmus MC is listed in the FESSH training centre database as offering a self-funded hand surgery fellowship covering congenital, trauma, microsurgery, Dupuytren's, wrist instability, arthroscopy, tetraplegia, fracture surgery and joint replacement. The listing dates from 2020 and FESSH notes it does not verify entries.
Intake not confirmedCedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California · United States
Broad reconstructive training covering breast, limb, peripheral nerve, lymphatic, gender-affirming and head-and-neck procedures at Cedars-Sinai.
Intake not confirmedGrady Health / Walter Ingram Burn Center
Atlanta, Georgia · United States
Clinical burn training at Atlanta's Walter Ingram Burn Center includes complex wounds, reconstruction, laser therapy and pediatric burn surgery.
Intake not confirmedUC Irvine / CHOC Children's Hospital
Orange, California · United States
Training across UCI and CHOC combines pediatric craniofacial surgery with orthodontics, maxillofacial surgery and neurosurgery. Research support includes tissue engineering and clinical outcomes.
Craniofacial fellowship leadershipRaj M. Vyas, MD
Intake not confirmedAdventHealth for Children
Orlando, Florida · United States
ASCFS lists this future Orlando programme with a July 2028 start and a non-accredited designation.
Intake not confirmedNextGenFace / Northwell–Lenox Hill
New York, New York · United States
The ASCFS register lists this New York programme as non-accredited, with clinical sites including Lenox Hill and Cohen Children's hospitals.
Intake not confirmedUniversity of Basel / University Hospital Basel / University Children's Hospital Basel
Basel · Switzerland
The Facial and Cranial Anomalies group explicitly welcomes visiting fellows in craniofacial surgery and related research.
Intake not confirmedCentre Main Paris Monceau — Clinique Internationale du Parc Monceau
Paris · France
A flexible host-led fellowship for hand and shoulder learning, supported by published visiting-surgeon experiences.
Intake not confirmedUniversity of Southern California
Los Angeles, California · United States
Microsurgery and Complex Reconstruction Fellowship in Los Angeles, California, represented by an official plastic-surgery or microsurgery society listing. Current case mix, appointment terms and vacancies require direct confirmation.
Intake not confirmedSmile Train / West African College of Surgeons
Host centres in Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal · Africa — multiple countries
A nine-month, competency-based cleft surgery certification for West African surgeons, run with the West African College of Surgeons at centres in Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal.
Intake not confirmedSmile Train Africa
Host centres in Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire · Africa — multiple countries
A one-month intensive cleft surgery training for early-career cleft surgeons at Smile Train partner centres in West Africa.
Intake not confirmedThe Plastic Surgery Foundation (ASPS/PSF) / Operation Smile
Operation Smile partner hospitals · Global — multiple countries
A scholarship placing surgeons on short-term Operation Smile surgical programmes, with attendance at Operation Smile medical conferences and Plastic Surgery The Meeting.
Intake not confirmedUniversidad Autónoma de Nuevo León — Posgrado de Medicina
Monterrey, Nuevo León · Mexico
A one-year advanced-specialty course in hand surgery and microsurgery listed by UANL's postgraduate medicine school.
