Fellowship Program
The Department of Spine Surgery runs multiple academic programs including FNB (Fellowship National Board) and Association of Spine Surgeons (ASSI) Spine Fellowship as 2-year structured courses with a very competitive Entry and Exit Examination. Currently the former is temporarily suspended but the ASSI fellowship is continuing with two candidates per year getting in.
The candidate for the long-term fellowship works in the capacity of a clinical registrar in the Department of Spine Surgery and is duty-bound to assist in the operating rooms, go round all admitted patients and see patients in the out patient’s clinic. He has specific targets so far as presentation and publications are concerned. Applications are usually invited/ advertised in April/ May and the selection is over by August. The selected candidate joins from 1st October for a period of 2 years. Following are the details:
Duration of the Fellowship
- Two-year full-time spine fellowship.
- Mostly clinical with some research obligations.
- Fellow works as a Registrar with full clinical responsibility.
Criteria for the fellowship
- MS/DNB in Orthopaedics or MCh/DNB in Neurosurgery.
- Active interest in developing spine as a full-time specialty.
- Must have permanent registration with the MCI (Medical Council of India).
- Strong emphasis on publications and presentations.
- Must have complete command in English and Hindi.
- Vernacular language skill, will be an added advantage, though not mandatory.
- Will have to maintain and submit complete logbook.
- He has to meet the requisite criteria of minimum presentations/publications during his fellowship.
The short-term fellowships include the AOSpine fellowship for 3 to 6 weeks and the APSS (Asia Pacific Spine Society) fellowship for a period of about 4 weeks. Our department has got accreditation from both these international spine societies. The details of the these programs can be obtained from the respective websites - aospine.aofoundation.org and apssonline.org.
In addition to this, our department caters to a traveling fellowship of SSWB (Spine Society of West Bengal). This is a 6-week rotating fellowship in which the candidate spends 2 weeks in our department at Kothari Medical Center and 2 weeks at Apollo Gleneagles Hospital and a further 2 weeks at Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata (INK). Further details can be obtained from sswb.in
Fellows: Past & Present
- Dr. Shreeramalingam (2008-09) AOSpine
- Dr. Prashant Baid (2009-10) AOSpine
- Dr. Jaydeep Ghosh (20011) AOSpine
- Dr. Farid Hussain Malik (2010) AOSpine
- Dr. Agniwesh Tikoo (2011) AOSpine
- Dr. Amitava Biswas (2012) AOSpine
- Dr. Shreeramalingam (2012-14) NBE
- Dr. Kiran Kumar T. (2013-15) NBE
- Dr. Gaurav Raj Dhakal (2012-14) ASSi
- Dr. Dharmesh Patel (2013) AOSpine
- Dr. Shubhadip Mondal (2015) AOSpine
- Dr. Vignesh Pushparaj (2014) AOSpine
- Dr. Kondety Chaitanya (2013-15) ASSi
- Dr. Tarun Suri (2014-16) NBE
- Dr. Aditya Banta (2016-18) NBE
- Dr. M B Sathik Babu (2016-18) ASSi
- Dr. Anil Solanki (2016-18) ASSi
- Dr. Sandeep Kesharwani (2015-17) NBE
- Dr. Somashekhar D. (2018-20) NBE
- Dr. Naveen Agarwal (2017-19) ASSi
- Dr. Rohan Gala (2017-19) ASSi
- Dr. Gokul Bandagi (2018-20) ASSi
- Dr. Kushal Gohil (2019-21) ASSi
- Dr. Ashish Gupta (2019-21) ASSi
- Dr. JRS Gowtham (2020- ) ASSi
- Dr. Dheeraj Manikanta (2020- ) ASSi
- Dr. Aditya Vardhan (2021- ) ASSi
- Dr. Piyush Joshi (2021- ) ASSi
- Dr. Mitul Jain (2022- ) NBE
- Dr. Piyush Gadegone (2022- ) NBE
For further information please follow the link:
assi.in/fellowship.php
