8 programmes and training pathways found from official sources. Confirm current availability, licensing, and operating privileges directly with each institution.
This summary describes the profiles indexed here; it is not a count of vacancies.
Read the individual participation terms: a broad clinical pathway label does not establish hands-on access.
3 focus areas are represented. Compare the curriculum and supervision within your intended subspecialty.
Neurotrauma & neurocritical care comparison guide →Skull base comparison guide →Spine comparison guide →Ask the selected host in Colombia whether your qualifications fit this specific post, which patient-care activities are permitted, and who arranges registration and immigration documentation. Country coverage does not imply that every profile accepts international applicants.
International application checklist →Before committing, request the current cohort dates, supervisor, expected weekly activities and a breakdown of support and costs. Confirm whether the official source describes this programme, an institution-wide policy or an older intake.
Compare your shortlisted profiles →Clinical · Travelling fellowship pathways are represented. Country-level licensing, language and visa requirements are not inferred; confirm them with the host and the current national or regional regulator.
International applicant guide →Recorded information is not a guarantee of funding, eligibility or a currently open intake.
Universidad del Rosario / Hospital Universitario Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá
Bogotá · Colombia
Listed lead Dr Fernando Alvarado Gómez (coordinator)
Funding: Tuition listed as $7,812,000 for the first semester of 2026; no stipend is published.
Exposure: Spine pathology across all ages—congenital, traumatic, degenerative, tumour, deformity, inflammatory and infectious—with modules in paediatric spine, neurophysiology, advanced neuroradiology and pain, at Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá and Instituto Roosevelt.
Eligibility: Foreign graduates can apply if their degree has been validated (convalidacion) and they are registered in RETHUS.
Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Examinations · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Accreditation
Source: Official Universidad del Rosario programme page. Reviewed 15 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.
Colombia (clinical) and Cambridge (research) · Colombia / United Kingdom
Listed lead P. David Adelson (USA); Andres M. Rubiano (Colombia)
Application status: Application form and documents are described; duration, deadline and funding are not published.
Funding: Not stated on the official page; confirm with the host.
Exposure: Cranial and spinal neurotrauma in adults and children, neurotrauma critical care, global neurosurgery activities and clinical research; clinical portion full-time in Colombia, research with Cambridge.
Eligibility: The application page encourages neurosurgeons from low- and middle-income countries with basic English proficiency and requests certification of their home-country neurosurgery training.
Still to confirm: Duration · Funding · Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Training level · Medical registration · Examinations · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation · Accreditation
Source: Neurotrauma and Global Neurosurgery International Fellowship website. Reviewed 12 Nov 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.
Hospital Universitario Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá
Bogotá · Colombia
Listed lead Luis Carlos Morales Saenz (surgeon in charge of fellows)
Funding: AO Spine pays a small stipend towards accommodation and living costs (benchmark USD 550 per week in the United States, adjusted for local price levels); travel and insurance are paid by the fellow.
Exposure: Orthopedics and traumatology: about 1059 surgical cases per year and 335 beds; techniques include standard open, endoscopic, minimally invasive, anterior, navigated, intradural, pain-management, thoracoscopic, tuberculosis surgery. Other activities: We are experts in interventional pain management (percutaneous techniques: thermodiscoplasty, radiofrequency and spinal blocks), cervical and lumbar degenerative surgery, and deformities (pediatric and adult).
Eligibility: International programme open to AO Spine members worldwide with at least two years' membership; AO allocates host centres and applicants should not contact host centres until AO confirms the placement.
Still to confirm: Current status · Positions · International eligibility · Examinations · Benefits
Source: Official AO Spine host-centre profile. Reviewed 8 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.
Hospital Infantil Universitario de San José
Bogotá · Colombia
Listed lead Rodolfo Páez González (surgeon in charge of fellows)
Funding: AO Spine pays a small stipend towards accommodation and living costs (benchmark USD 550 per week in the United States, adjusted for local price levels); travel and insurance are paid by the fellow.
Exposure: Orthopedics and Traumatology: about 372 surgical cases per year and 500 beds; techniques include standard open, endoscopic, minimally invasive, anterior, intradural, pain-management, thoracoscopic, tuberculosis surgery. Other activities: Movilab research, Cadaveric training, Clinical seminars Percutaneous spine techniques Cadaveric surgical training (amphitheater) Motion analysis laboratory (Movilab) integration.
Eligibility: International programme open to AO Spine members worldwide with at least two years' membership; AO allocates host centres and applicants should not contact host centres until AO confirms the placement.
Still to confirm: Current status · Positions · International eligibility · Examinations · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits
Source: Official AO Spine host-centre profile. Reviewed 8 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.
Bogotá · Colombia
Listed lead Javier Matta Ibarra (surgeon in charge of fellows)
Funding: AO Spine pays a small stipend towards accommodation and living costs (benchmark USD 550 per week in the United States, adjusted for local price levels); travel and insurance are paid by the fellow.
Exposure: Ortopedia - Traumatologia: about 190 surgical cases per year and 50 beds; techniques include standard open, endoscopic, minimally invasive, anterior, intradural, pain-management, thoracoscopic, tuberculosis surgery.
Eligibility: International programme open to AO Spine members worldwide with at least two years' membership; AO allocates host centres and applicants should not contact host centres until AO confirms the placement.
Still to confirm: Current status · Positions · International eligibility · Examinations · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits
Source: Official AO Spine host-centre profile. Reviewed 8 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.
Bogotá · Colombia
Listed lead Frank Mario Herrera-Mendez (surgeon in charge of fellows)
Funding: AO Spine pays a small stipend towards accommodation and living costs (benchmark USD 550 per week in the United States, adjusted for local price levels); travel and insurance are paid by the fellow.
Exposure: Ortopedia y Traumatología: about 300 surgical cases per year and 146 beds; techniques include standard open, anterior, intradural, pain-management surgery.
Eligibility: International programme open to AO Spine members worldwide with at least two years' membership; AO allocates host centres and applicants should not contact host centres until AO confirms the placement.
Still to confirm: Current status · Positions · International eligibility · Examinations · Benefits · Fees
Source: Official AO Spine host-centre profile. Reviewed 8 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali / Clínica Imbanaco
Cali · Colombia
Listed lead Francisco Guzmán
Funding: The official page publishes a course investment of COP 35,000,000 rather than a funded salary.
Exposure: Skull-base and pituitary disease, neuro-oncology, awake craniotomy, mapping, monitoring, navigation, neuroendoscopy, perioperative care and research.
Eligibility: Open to neurosurgeons and otorhinolaryngologists qualified by accredited national or foreign universities.
Still to confirm: Current status · Deadline · Positions · Participation level · Medical registration · Examinations · Language · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents · Application route · Accreditation
Source: Official Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali programme page. Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.
Phoenix / Colombia · United States / Colombia
Application status: Phoenix Children’s describes nine months in Colombia and three months in the US. The programme organiser’s older listing also names Brazil and the UK. Ask the programme administrator which sites apply to a future cohort.
Funding: Not stated on the official page; confirm with the host.
Exposure: Hands-on neurotrauma and critical care clinical experience in Colombia, then observation and research at Barrow.
Eligibility: The organiser’s application page specifically invites neurosurgeons from low- and middle-income countries.
Still to confirm: Funding · Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Medical registration · Examinations · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation · Programme director · Accreditation
Source: Official Phoenix Children's fellowship page. Reviewed 29 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.
