Skull base fellowships and training in Europe

Application status: The linked NHS Jobs advert is closed. Its training requirements, salary and duties describe that historical vacancy; no new intake is verified.

Funding: Historical closed advert: Salary of £73,992 a year (Hospital medical and dental staff pay scheme). This is the advertised rate for that vacancy, not a verified current salary.

Exposure: The fellow provides further sub-specialisation experience in pituitary and minimally invasive/endoscopic skull-base surgery, works with the endocrine team and neurosurgeons at the John Radcliffe Hospital, and provides 16-32 hours of general neurosurgery on-call cover per week.

Eligibility: Trust Doctor ST7 and above; FRCS, preferably FRCS (SN) or equivalent, with full GMC registration.

Still to confirm: Current status · Deadline · Positions · International eligibility · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents · Application route · Programme director

Source: NHS Jobs advert. Reviewed 22 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Application status: The linked NHS Jobs advert is closed. Its training requirements, salary and duties describe that historical vacancy; no new intake is verified.

Funding: Historical closed advert: Salary of £41,750 to £64,288 a year, with a Band 1A 50% supplement for on call commitments. This is the advertised rate for that vacancy, not a verified current salary.

Exposure: The fellow works with a team of skull base surgeons, attends twice monthly skull base MDTs and a monthly pituitary MDT, takes part in the neurosurgical registrar on-call rota, audit including the skull base and pituitary databases, and research.

Eligibility: Year 4 or 5 of neurosurgical training; equivalent overseas training will be considered.

Still to confirm: Current status · Deadline · Positions · International eligibility · Language · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents · Application route · Programme director

Source: NHS Jobs advert. Reviewed 22 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Scheme-wide: fellows are employed and usually salaried by the hosting NHS trust, but may face extra costs (accommodation, travel, courses); RCS England financial assistance is no longer available for post-CCT fellows (bursaries up to GBP 1,000 and specialty grants may help).

Exposure: Advanced diagnosis, operative approaches and perioperative management for cranial-base disorders.

Eligibility: Scheme-wide: open to international candidates and SAS doctors with ST6–ST8-equivalent training; UK posts require GMC registration and eligibility to work in the UK on a temporary work visa.

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

Source: Official RCS England register. Reviewed 8 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Not clearly published on the teaching page.

Exposure: Medium-to-high complexity neurosurgery with strength in skull base, vascular and functional surgery; technology cited by visitors includes intraoperative CT/MRI, Kinevo microscopes, endoscopy towers and neuronavigation.

Eligibility: Hospital Clínic-wide: training stays are offered to foreign professionals working in a country that has signed a cultural collaboration agreement with Spain.

Still to confirm: Eligibility · Funding · Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Examinations · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Accommodation · Accreditation

Source: Official Hospital Clínic teaching page. Reviewed 13 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Employment terms are vacancy-specific and are not consolidated on the RCS register.

Exposure: Patient selection, endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery, expanded approaches and CSF fistula repair.

Eligibility: Scheme-wide: open to international candidates and SAS doctors with ST6–ST8-equivalent training; UK posts require GMC registration and eligibility to work in the UK on a temporary work visa.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Language · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents

Source: Official RCS England neurosurgery fellowship register. Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Employment terms are vacancy-specific and are not consolidated on the RCS register.

Exposure: Open and endoscopic skull-base approaches, pituitary disease, vestibular schwannoma, perioperative care and collaborative research.

Eligibility: Scheme-wide: open to international candidates and SAS doctors with ST6–ST8-equivalent training; UK posts require GMC registration and eligibility to work in the UK on a temporary work visa.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Language · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents

Source: Official RCS England neurosurgery fellowship register. Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Employment terms are vacancy-specific and are not consolidated on the RCS register.

Exposure: Endoscopic and microscopic pituitary and skull-base surgery, MDT care, perioperative management and complex approaches.

Eligibility: Scheme-wide: open to international candidates and SAS doctors with ST6–ST8-equivalent training; UK posts require GMC registration and eligibility to work in the UK on a temporary work visa.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Language · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents

Source: Official RCS England neurosurgery fellowship register. Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Employment terms are vacancy-specific and are not consolidated on the RCS register.

Exposure: Joint neurosurgery-ENT endoscopic skull-base practice, pituitary pathways, reconstruction and multidisciplinary oncological care.

Eligibility: Scheme-wide: open to international candidates and SAS doctors with ST6–ST8-equivalent training; UK posts require GMC registration and eligibility to work in the UK on a temporary work visa.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Language · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents

Source: Official RCS England neurosurgery fellowship register. Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Employment terms are vacancy-specific and are not consolidated on the RCS register.

Exposure: Endoscopic and open approaches to pituitary, sellar, cranial-base and cerebellopontine-angle disease.

Eligibility: Scheme-wide: open to international candidates and SAS doctors with ST6–ST8-equivalent training; UK posts require GMC registration and eligibility to work in the UK on a temporary work visa.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Language · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents

Source: Official RCS England neurosurgery fellowship register. Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Employment terms are vacancy-specific and are not consolidated on the RCS register.

Exposure: Endoscopic endonasal and transcranial skull-base surgery, reconstruction, vestibular schwannoma and pituitary perioperative management.

Eligibility: Scheme-wide: open to international candidates and SAS doctors with ST6–ST8-equivalent training; UK posts require GMC registration and eligibility to work in the UK on a temporary work visa.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Language · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents

Source: Official RCS England neurosurgery fellowship register. Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Application status: The department describes two fellows per year and directs applicants to ask about future availability; no dated open vacancy is published.

Funding: Salary, fees and benefits are not published on the departmental fellowship page.

Exposure: Advanced skull-base clinical and laboratory training with Sébastien Froelich; multidisciplinary case review, twice-monthly resident/student teaching, and clinical or anatomical research. The research objective is at least two international publications by completion, not a guaranteed outcome.

Eligibility: The department documents previous fellows from Japan, Taiwan, Canada, South Korea and European countries. This demonstrates international participation, not unrestricted current eligibility: confirm the appointment, French authorisation, language and immigration conditions directly.

Still to confirm: Funding · Current status · Commencement · Deadline · International eligibility · Examinations · Visa / work authorisation · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents · Accreditation

Source: Official Lariboisière neurosurgery clinical fellowship page. Reviewed 17 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 funding or salary details.

Exposure: Monthly in-person blocks in Padua (theory and case options, live or recorded surgery, and case review), project work and a final exam; the 2026/27 edition focuses on lateral skull-base approaches. No internships are included.

Eligibility: Foreign-degree holders may apply subject to assessment of their qualification and Italian practice authorisation/registration.

Still to confirm: Current status · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Accreditation

Source: Official University of Padua master 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 funding or salary details.

Exposure: 1,525 hours including 210 hours of lectures and 750 hours of stage at Ospedale di Circolo, Varese, with dissection on anatomical specimens and clinical exercises in endoscopic sinus and skull-base surgery.

Eligibility: Foreign or Italian candidates with foreign qualifications must submit translated and legalised qualifications, Declaration of Value, CV, motivation letter and identity/visa documents to the Post-Lauream Office.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Participation level · Training level · Medical registration · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents · Accreditation

Source: Official University of Insubria programme 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 funding or salary details.

Exposure: Integrated diagnostic and surgical management of hypothalamic-pituitary and anterior/middle skull-base lesions via minimally invasive, endoscopic and exoscopic corridors, including a hands-on endoscopic endonasal dissection course at the IRCCS Neuromed Anatomy Training and Neurosurgical Research Lab.

Eligibility: Foreign degrees are accepted if valid under the European Qualifications Framework; candidates must provide an official Italian translation with the Italian consulate's declaration of value or a CIMEA comparability statement by the enrolment deadline.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Medical registration · Language · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents

Source: Official IRCCS Neuromed course flyer for the Federico II master. Reviewed 8 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: The university states the master is fully funded for its first five editions by the Andreotti&Brusone Philanthropy Fund and Fondazione Andreotti Brusone.

Exposure: Advanced anatomy and surgical anatomy of the mastoid, ear and lateral skull base; operating-room training with live surgery and fresh-frozen specimen dissection covering otologic, oto-neurosurgical (lateral skull base) and auditory implant surgery, including brainstem implants.

Eligibility: Graduates in Medicine and Surgery with professional qualification, registration with the Italian medical register and a specialisation in Otorhinolaryngology, Audiology or Neurosurgery.

Still to confirm: Current status · Training level · International eligibility · Medical registration · Examinations · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents · Application route · Accreditation

Source: Official University of Siena announcement. Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Funding and fees are not published.

Exposure: Neuroanatomy, surgical approaches, white-matter pathways and technology/VR research. Fellows can observe Froelich or Mandonnet according to their project and join departmental case meetings; consultations are optional. The stated goal is two international peer-reviewed papers, not a guaranteed outcome.

Eligibility: The department lists previous research fellows from Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Brazil and other countries. Acceptance is project-based; associated-researcher administrative processing takes approximately two to three months after acceptance. No nationality-wide guarantee or visa sponsorship is published.

Still to confirm: Eligibility · Funding · Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Training level · Examinations · Language · Visa / work authorisation · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation · Accreditation

Source: Official Lariboisière neurosurgery research fellowship page. Reviewed 17 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 funding details.

Exposure: Cadaver dissection of middle fossa, cavernous sinus, subtemporal, infratemporal and clivus approaches and minimally invasive approaches (mini-pterional, transorbital, endoscope-assisted), with two simultaneous live surgeries relayed from Bellvitge and Sant Pau.

Eligibility: Aimed at ENT, neurosurgery and maxillofacial specialists and residents; designed for participants working in pairs (neurosurgeon-ENT, ENT-maxillofacial, maxillofacial-neurosurgeon).

Still to confirm: Current status · Deadline · Participation level · Training level · International eligibility · Medical registration · Examinations · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents · Accreditation

Source: Official Hospital de Bellvitge course brochure (2025 edition). Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Application status: The organiser’s first-edition event page displays registration open for the 6–7 November 2026 course. This working booking page was found through the Portuguese Neurosurgical Society; the older ESBS booking URL redirects to the organiser homepage. Places remain subject to booking confirmation.

Funding: The official page does not publish funding details.

Exposure: Cadaveric practice in frontobasal, pterional/orbitozygomatic, subtemporal/Kawase, presigmoid and combined petrosectomy, retrosigmoid and far-lateral cranial approaches.

Eligibility: Neurosurgery residents and physicians; the organiser specifically describes training for residents and newly qualified specialists.

Still to confirm: Current status · Deadline · Training level · International eligibility · Medical registration · Examinations · Language · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents · Accreditation

Source: Official ESBS event page. Reviewed 15 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 funding details.

Exposure: Anterior skull base and anterior craniocervical junction, posterior skull base and posterior craniocervical junction, and lateral skull base approaches, each introduced by a 20-minute lecture followed by practical cadaver exercises with faculty support.

Eligibility: The 2024 course targeted residents in the final third of training and recently board-certified neurosurgeons.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Training level · International eligibility · Medical registration · Examinations · Visa / work authorisation · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents · Application route · Official contact · Accreditation

Source: Official Uniklinik Düsseldorf skull base course page. Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Application status: Archived 2025 call. The published application deadline has passed.

Funding: For the 2025 cohort, Medtronic support totalled DKK 49,500 for housing in Odense and travel and accommodation for the UPMC visit. The fellow’s home institution covered salary.

Exposure: Endonasal flap techniques, skull base drilling, tumour removal, closure and postoperative care, plus cadaver lab, outpatient observation and supervised research.

Eligibility: Medical degree and documented neurosurgery experience as a senior resident or specialist with an interest in expanded endoscopic skull base approaches.

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

Source: Odense University Hospital call via Danish Neurosurgical Society. Reviewed 7 Nov 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Application status: Archived 2023 call. Current intake is unconfirmed.

Funding: The 2023 call offered EUR 600 monthly for living expenses and up to EUR 2,500 for accommodation over three months. Course fees were covered. Travel and insurance were the fellow’s responsibility.

Exposure: Skull base cases with neurosurgery, ENT and orbital teams, weekly multidisciplinary meetings and anatomy lab access.

Eligibility: Neurosurgical specialists or doctors in neurosurgical training with a skull base interest. The 2023 call preferred applicants from countries with limited skull base postgraduate training.

Still to confirm: Current status · Deadline · Positions · Training level · International eligibility · Medical registration · Examinations · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Fees · Programme director · Accreditation

Source: EANS-hosted Rigshospitalet fellowship announcement. Reviewed 7 Nov 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Application status: The lateral skull base advert at Salford Royal closed on 4 November 2026. The Foundation also describes a separate endoscopic track.

Funding: The lateral skull base advert that closed on 4 November 2026 listed £67,325–£77,348 a year plus rota enhancements for a full-time 12-month post.

Exposure: Neurosurgery posts in microscopic skull base surgery and in pituitary and endoscopic skull base surgery; service receives over 500 new skull base tumour referrals a year, including 200 vestibular schwannomas.

Eligibility: The Foundation describes both neurosurgery tracks as intended for post-CCT applicants from the UK and overseas.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Language · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents · Programme director · Accreditation

Source: Skull Base Foundation, Fellowships page. Reviewed 12 Nov 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.