Fellowship Program Information
Affiliation (Center Type): Affiliated with Antwerp University (Teaching, Academic, University)
Fellowship Training Session or Other Educational Opportunity Length: 3-12 months
Can the Center customize educational opportunities for participants?:
Fellows Accepted Per Year: 2
Faculty Participating in Fellowship Education: Peter Verdonk, MD, PhD, knee surgery
Geert Declercq MD, shoulder and knee
Nick Jansen MD, shoulder and knee
Koen Lagae MD, knee surgery
Ian Peeters, MD, PhD, knee surgery
Jan Van Melkebeek MD, hip surgery
Jurgen Londers MD, hip surgery
Tim Leenders MD, foot and ankle
Frederik Verstreken MD, hand and wrist
Pieter Dolhain MD, hip surgery and trauma
Geert Mahieu MD, spine surgery
Jef Michielsen MD, spine surgery
Bert Van Ermen, pediatric orthopedics
Roger van Riet MD, PhD, elbow surgery
Recent activity of Teaching Center: Yearly, we receive at least 4-6 international visiting fellows and surgeon to join us in all major joint sports surgeries. We run a number of national and international courses.
link to publications; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=verdonk+peter
Financial Support and Expenses
Types of Financial Support Available:
Other support that the Teaching Center can provide:
Estimate of Living Expenses (Housing and other major costs): Housing available
Living expenses 1500 euro/ month
Anticipated Fellowship Participation in Surgical Cases
Arthroscopy 30%
Knee Surgery 50%
Sports Medicine 20%
Area(s) of Specialty: Ankle Arthroscopy Biologics Elbow/Wrist Arthroscopy Knee Arthroplasty Knee Arthroscopy Hip Arthroplasty Hip Arthroscopy Shoulder Arthroplasty Shoulder Arthroscopy
Role of the fellow with respect to Clinical, Surgical, Research, and other opportunities: Clinical, surgical and research
Types of Educational Opportunities:
Research projects, research facilities and resources, cadaver labs, publication opportunities, integration of the patient and public involvement, and the role of the fellow: Dedicated research foundation with full time biomedical scientist. Potential access to cadaveric studies. We expect the fellow to finish at least one project per 3 month period.
Related Conference/Lecture Schedule: Weekly presentation of interesting cases
Weekly presentation of 1 topic of interest
Biweekly Journal club
Continuous education
We are involved in the organization of several conferences each year.
Athletic Team Coverage: Belgian tennis
Antwerp Giants basketball
Several professional soccer and cycling teams