Neurosurgery fellowships in Seattle.

Funding: The official page does not publish the current salary and benefits package.

Exposure: Brain tumours, craniofacial disorders, epilepsy surgery, Chiari malformation, cerebral palsy, hydrocephalus and multidisciplinary paediatric clinics.

Eligibility: Seattle Children's asks international applicants to contact the fellowship director; UW GME visa rules apply.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Participation level · Training level · Examinations · Language · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents

Source: Official Seattle Children's fellowship page. Reviewed 8 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Fellows are appointed as Acting Instructors with a listed base salary of $120,000 per year ($10,000 per month); approved additional clinical activity such as moonlighting or Saturday surgery may attract extra pay.

Exposure: Cranial neurotrauma with operative and ICU management guided by multimodality monitoring, spinal column and cord injury managed surgically with neurosurgery and orthopaedics faculty, and clinical and translational TBI research using departmental datasets and multicentre studies in the US and Latin America, at Harborview Medical Center.

Eligibility: International medical graduates must hold ECFMG certification and existing US work authorisation; the fellowship does not sponsor visas.

Still to confirm: Current status · Deadline · Positions · Participation level · Language · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation

Source: Official University of Washington Neurological Surgery fellowship page. Reviewed 8 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Fellows are appointed as Acting Instructors with a listed base salary of $120,000 per year ($10,000 per month); approved moonlighting or Saturday surgery may attract extra pay.

Exposure: Case mix of roughly 20% trauma, 55% degenerative, 10% deformity and 15% neoplasia/infection, split about evenly between cervical and thoracolumbar pathology, with complex trauma, deformity, minimally invasive, full-endoscopic, navigated and robotic surgery and a multidisciplinary metastatic spine tumour programme. Sites: Harborview Medical Center (primary), UW Medical Center–Montlake and UW Medical Center–Northwest.

Eligibility: International medical graduates must hold ECFMG certification and existing US work authorisation; the fellowship does not sponsor visas.

Still to confirm: Current status · Deadline · Participation level · Language · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation

Source: Official University of Washington Neurological Surgery fellowship page. Reviewed 8 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Fellows are appointed as Acting Instructors with a listed base salary of $120,000 per year ($10,000 per month); approved moonlighting or Saturday surgery may attract extra pay.

Exposure: Typically over 500 procedures covering ruptured and unruptured aneurysms, acute ischaemic stroke, AVMs and fistulas, atherosclerotic disease, tumour embolisation, traumatic vascular injury, venous sinus disease and paediatric cerebrovascular disorders. Sites: Harborview Medical Center (Comprehensive Stroke Center, primary), UW Medical Center–Montlake and Seattle Children's Hospital.

Eligibility: International medical graduates must hold ECFMG certification and existing US work authorisation; the fellowship does not sponsor visas.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Participation level · Language · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation

Source: Official University of Washington Neurological Surgery fellowship page. Reviewed 8 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Fellows typically hold the title of Acting Instructor with a listed base salary of $120,000 per year ($10,000 per month); approved moonlighting or Saturday surgery may attract extra pay.

Exposure: Cerebrovascular and skull base microsurgery, endoscopic skull base tumour surgery, perioperative care, clinical research and teaching, and attending-level call including neurotrauma at Harborview Medical Center and UW Medical Center. The programme does not include endovascular training.

Eligibility: International graduates are not eligible.

Still to confirm: Current status · Deadline · Positions · Participation level · Examinations · Language · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation

Source: Official University of Washington Neurological Surgery fellowship page. Reviewed 8 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Fellows are typically appointed as Acting Instructors with a listed base salary of $120,000 per year ($10,000 per month); approved moonlighting or Saturday surgery may attract extra pay.

Exposure: Epilepsy surgery (stereo-EEG, resection with ECoG and mapping), awake and asleep DBS, pain procedures (microvascular decompression, lesioning, neuromodulation, cordotomy), LITT and radiofrequency ablation for eloquent tumours, and peripheral nerve transfers, using Leksell frame and ROSA robot, with a required research project. Sites: UW Medical Center–Montlake, Harborview Medical Center and UW Medical Center–Northwest.

Eligibility: International medical graduates must hold ECFMG certification and existing US work authorisation; the fellowship does not sponsor visas.

Still to confirm: Current status · Deadline · Positions · Participation level · Language · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation

Source: Official University of Washington Neurological Surgery fellowship page. Reviewed 8 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: The official page does not publish the current salary and benefits package.

Exposure: Skull base tumour management using microsurgery, endoscopy, intraoperative CT and MRI with neuronavigation, Gamma Knife and CyberKnife radiosurgery, neurotology, neuroendocrinology and neuro-oncology, with the Swedish Hearing and Skull Base Surgery Center, Seattle Pituitary Center, Ivy Center for Advanced Brain Tumor Treatment and a skull base teaching laboratory at the Seattle Science Foundation.

Eligibility: Physicians who are fully trained in neurosurgery.

Still to confirm: Current status · Deadline · Positions · Participation level · International eligibility · Medical registration · Examinations · Language · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents · Official contact · Programme director · Accreditation

Source: Official Providence Swedish fellowship page. Reviewed 8 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: The official page does not publish the current salary and benefits package.

Exposure: Cerebrovascular microsurgery and/or neuroendovascular treatment of aneurysms, AVMs, vascular neoplasms and moyamoya disease, plus extracranial carotid and vertebral artery disease including carotid endarterectomy, with radiosurgery training at the Swedish Radiosurgery Center and hands-on courses at the Seattle Science Foundation.

Eligibility: Applicants should be fully trained in neurosurgery.

Still to confirm: Current status · Positions · Participation level · International eligibility · Medical registration · Examinations · Language · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents · Official contact · Programme director · Accreditation

Source: Official Providence Swedish fellowship page. Reviewed 8 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.