Training pathway
26 source-led short-term training profiles. Short, focused plastic surgery training programmes and courses-based fellowships from official sources.
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Brief, focused programmes — often weeks rather than months — built around a specific technique or region of practice.
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Intake not confirmedTremp Plastic Surgery
Cham · Switzerland
Short aesthetic-surgery training in Cham, marketed by the provider as a fellowship; not a salaried long-term clinical appointment.
Named in official programme listingMathias Tremp
Intake not confirmedHand Centre Ravensburg / St. Elisabeth Hospital
Ravensburg · Germany
IBRA lists the Ravensburg hand centre for short resident visits and resident/scientific fellowships, including hand reconstruction and microsurgery.
IBRA fellowship facultyRoman Wolters, MD
Upcoming cycleFaculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP) — Institute of Orthopaedics
São Paulo · Brazil
A one-year, single-place FMUSP course for qualified hand surgeons in hand surgery and reconstructive microsurgery, run through the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology.
Host department leadership (as listed)Dr. Rames Mattar Junior
Intake not confirmedAsan Medical Center — Department of Plastic Surgery
Seoul · South Korea
Asan's hospital-wide IViS route for overseas physicians. The IViS page does not list departments; the hospital newsroom reports international clinical fellows training in plastic surgery under Professors Joon Pio Hong and Jong-Woo Choi.
Deadline passedCOSECSA / Smile Train
COSECSA-accredited plastic surgery training sites (East, Central and Southern Africa) · Africa — multiple countries
A one-month Smile Train-funded rotation for COSECSA plastic surgery trainees to widen their cleft lip and palate experience at another accredited hospital in the region.
Intake not confirmedDeutschsprachige Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Handchirurgie (DAH)
Vienna · Austria
The German-speaking hand surgery society (DAH) awards training scholarships for one- or two-week Hospitation at partner hand surgery departments in Austria, Switzerland, Germany and South Tyrol. Swiss hosts named include the Inselspital Bern, Kantonsspital Graubünden (Chur), Luzerner Kantonsspital, Schulthess Klinik and University Hospital Zurich; Austrian hosts include AUVA Lorenz Böhler Vienna, Innsbruck and Kepler Universitätsklinikum Linz. Some host departments are on a waiting list, and the host departments belong to plastic, orthopaedic, trauma and paediatric surgery services.
DAH host-centre clinician — Chief, Hand Surgery; RHÖN-KLINIKUM Bad NeustadtJörg van Schoonhoven
Intake not confirmedThe First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine — Plastic Surgery
Hangzhou · China
A short international clinical and research training placement in a university hospital's plastic surgery unit, published on the hospital's English education portal. Listed focus areas include scars, keloid, skin tumours, chronic wounds, ptosis, single eyelid and saddle nose, and the named supervisor works in breast, ocular and rhinoplasty surgery, liposuction and facial rejuvenation.
Programme faculty — Chief Physician / doctoral supervisorXu Jinghong, PhD
Intake not confirmedLondon Rhinoplasty Course — consultant plastic surgeons Lucian Ion, Jag Chana and Rajan Uppal
London · United Kingdom
A one-to-three-month aesthetic surgery fellowship run in association with BAAPS by three London consultant plastic surgeons, with broad experience of rhinoplasty, facelifts, blepharoplasty, breast and body surgery plus practice management. The page gives no dates or eligibility rules; appointment is by interview.
Fellowship trainer — consultant plastic surgeonLucian Ion
Intake not confirmedKarolinska University Hospital / Uppsala Akademiska University Hospital
Stockholm and Uppsala · Sweden
An AO CMF fellowship host centre in the plastic and maxillofacial department at Karolinska, run jointly with Uppsala (about 75 per cent of the time in Stockholm and 25 per cent in Uppsala). The page lists about 1,300 surgical cases a year and is the AO host listing, not a standalone hospital page.
Intake not confirmedMedanta — The Medicity
Gurugram · India
An AO CMF fellowship host centre in the department of plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgery at Medanta, listed with 20 beds and about 1,830 surgical cases a year. The AO host listing is the only page reviewed.
Intake not confirmedUniversity Hospital LMU Munich — Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Facial Plastic Surgery
Munich · Germany
An AO CMF fellowship host centre in the LMU Munich oral and maxillofacial and facial plastic surgery department (OMFS host specialty), listed with 24 beds and about 2,600 surgical cases a year. The AO host listing is the only page reviewed.
Intake not confirmedSeoul National University Hospital
Seoul · South Korea
Departmental visiting training across reconstructive subspecialties, with conferences, rounds and research discussions. The brochure predates this audit and current terms require confirmation.
Named programme or training-centre contactKim Sang Wha
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 confirmedAin Shams University Hospitals — Department of Plastic, Burn and Maxillofacial Surgery
Cairo · Egypt
Ain Shams University Hospitals runs specialised plastic surgery courses for physicians from Egypt and other Arab countries, covering injectables and endoscopic and surgical facelift techniques.
Head of the Department of Plastic SurgeryProf. Ahmed Ali Hassan
Rolling · availability unconfirmedUniversidad de Chile — Departamento de Cirugía Norte, Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile
Santiago · Chile
A six-month perfeccionamiento stay (versión 2026) that teaches general surgeons basic reconstructive-surgery techniques and advanced wound management for emergency and surgical services without subspecialists, with an introduction to applied clinical 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.
Host surgical team — hand and upper-limb surgeryQuentin BaumannIntake not confirmedAin Shams University Hospitals / AO Foundation
Cairo · Egypt
A high-volume AO host-centre placement in plastic, burns and maxillofacial surgery with rounds, operating-room exposure and teaching activity.
Surgeon in charge of fellows (AO listing)Amir Elbarbary
Intake not confirmedHospices Civils de Lyon — Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse
Lyon · France
An international training route connected to Lyon's large plastic, reconstructive, aesthetic and burns service. HCL describes foreign surgeons and trainees visiting for stages and highlights microsurgical, breast, burn, pediatric and gender-affirming reconstruction.
Chef de service (head of department)Prof. Alain Ali Mojallal
Intake not confirmedLaclinic Montreux
Montreux · Switzerland
Laclinic documents a longstanding cosmetic-surgery fellowship. Its historical ISAPS relationship does not establish a current society placement.
Named in official programme listingLaurent Smeets
Intake not confirmedUniversity Hospital Würzburg — Trauma, Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Würzburg · Germany
Würzburg is an IBRA training host. Its listing does not publish a detailed curriculum, duration or current vacancy.
Host-centre clinical leadershipRainer H. Meffert, MD
Intake not confirmedHospital Italiano de Buenos Aires / AO Foundation
Buenos Aires · Argentina
An AO CMF host-centre placement in a combined head and neck, maxillofacial and plastic reconstructive department handling around 1,450 cases a year, including microvascular flap reconstruction.
Intake not confirmedHospital Roosevelt / AO Foundation
Guatemala City · Guatemala
An AO CMF host-centre placement in Hospital Roosevelt's stomatology and maxillofacial surgery department, which AO lists at 377 surgical cases a year. This is a maxillofacial department, not a plastic surgery service.
Surgeon in charge of fellows (AO listing)Jaime Matta
Upcoming cycleBritish Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons and British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons
Programme directors in London, Newcastle, Hull/Yorkshire, Nottingham/Leicester, England, and Edinburgh, Scotland · United Kingdom
A three-month aesthetic fellowship for post-CCT plastic surgery trainees, attached to a senior aesthetic practitioner, covering aesthetic surgery and non-surgical aesthetic medicine.
Fellowship leadership (as listed)Mark Henley
Intake not confirmedORTHOMEP
Clermont-Ferrand · France
An explicit application route for complementary surgical training; not a guarantee of a salaried fellowship.
Named training-centre contact (FESSH host-submitted listing)Antoine Martins
