Fellowship in Spine Surgery at KMC

Manipal

Train to treat the spine with skill, precision, and confidence

The Fellowship in Spine Surgery is a 12-month programme designed to train young orthopaedic surgeons to deal effectively with orthopaedic problems of the spine. With a clear purpose, improving the quality of care for spinal conditions in India by training more surgeons in the field, the fellowship admits one candidate each year, who receives a stipend during the programme. Training spans the full breadth of spinal care: from logical diagnosis and treatment planning for common spinal conditions to hands-on surgical competence in decompression, stabilisation, and the management of spinal infection, trauma, and deformity.

Program Highlights

A focused 12-month fellowship with one candidate selected each year, ensuring individualised, intensive training with a stipend provided.

A comprehensive syllabus spanning spinal approaches, osteology, radiology, biomechanics, instrumentation, and metallurgy through to trauma, scoliosis, spinal tuberculosis, tumours, myelopathy, and spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

Structured surgical training across 14 defined procedures, from posterior lumbar discectomy, anterior cervical discectomy, and pedicle screw insertion to deformity correction, osteotomies, and minimally invasive screw placement (as first assistant).

Exposure to modern techniques including minimally invasive and robotic-assisted spinal surgery.

Rigorous assessment through six-monthly formative checklists, logbook maintenance, and an end-year examination of two theory papers and a clinical exam.

Collaborations with the Department of Anatomy at KMC Manipal, and with Manipal Hospital Bengaluru, with external and international linkages (Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore and Tohoku Central Hospital, Sendai, Japan) under consideration.

Clinical Training

Develop a logical approach to diagnosis, comprehensive evaluation of conditions including congenital and neuromuscular scoliosis, and competence in spinal orthoses prescription and fitting.

Advanced Exposure

Progress from diagnostic and therapeutic procedures — transforaminal steroid injections, vertebroplasty, closed vertebral biopsy — to performing surgical drainage of spinal infection, spinal decompression, and basic spinal stabilisations by the end of twelve months.

Teaching and Learning

Learn through a defined syllabus, curated reference texts and leading spine journals, formative assessments, and a maintained logbook culminating in a final examination.

Clinical Training

Develop a logical approach to diagnosis, comprehensive evaluation of conditions including congenital and neuromuscular scoliosis, and competence in spinal orthoses prescription and fitting.

Clinical Training

Develop a logical approach to diagnosis, comprehensive evaluation of conditions including congenital and neuromuscular scoliosis, and competence in spinal orthoses prescription and fitting.

Program Highlights

A focused 12-month fellowship with one candidate selected each year, ensuring individualised, intensive training with a stipend provided.

Exposure to modern techniques including minimally invasive and robotic-assisted spinal surgery.

Rigorous assessment through six-monthly formative checklists, logbook maintenance, and an end-year examination of two theory papers and a clinical exam.

Clinical Training

Develop a logical approach to diagnosis, comprehensive evaluation of conditions including congenital and neuromuscular scoliosis, and competence in spinal orthoses prescription and fitting.

Advanced Exposure

Teaching and Learning

Learn through a defined syllabus, curated reference texts and leading spine journals, formative assessments, and a maintained logbook culminating in a final examination.

Clinical Training

Develop a logical approach to diagnosis, comprehensive evaluation of conditions including congenital and neuromuscular scoliosis, and competence in spinal orthoses prescription and fitting.

Clinical Training

Develop a logical approach to diagnosis, comprehensive evaluation of conditions including congenital and neuromuscular scoliosis, and competence in spinal orthoses prescription and fitting.

Program Details

Outcomes
Careers

Upon completion of this program, you can:

Approach the diagnosis of spinal conditions logically, and diagnose, evaluate, and effectively plan treatment for common spinal conditions.

Undertake comprehensive evaluation of patients with congenital and neuromuscular scoliosis.

Prescribe, measure, and check the fitting of various spinal orthoses.

Perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures including transforaminal injection of steroid, vertebroplasty, and closed vertebral biopsy.

Competently perform surgical drainage of spinal infection, spinal decompression, and basic spinal stabilisations.

Fellowship in Spine Surgery at KMC

Train to treat the spine with skill, precision, and confidence

Program Highlights

Upon completion of this program, you can:

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1 year

INR 9,03,000

USD 14,150

Program Highlights

Upon completion of this program, you can:

1 year

INR 9,03,000

USD 14,150