7 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.
6 focus areas are represented. Compare the curriculum and supervision within your intended subspecialty.
Cerebrovascular comparison guide →Functional & epilepsy comparison guide →General & multi-subspecialty comparison guide →Microneurosurgery & anatomy comparison guide →Ask the selected host in Greece 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.
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Funding: The department provides accommodation and two meals daily, plus Wi-Fi and medical-school/hospital library access. The centre page does not establish a salary or travel award.
Exposure: Postgraduate neurosurgical training; the operative scope and level of participation must be confirmed directly.
Eligibility: WFNS Foundation fellowship criteria (all WFNS training centres): completed medical degree (MD or equivalent), a commitment to return to the home country after training, and a recommendation signed by the home department head, dean or hospital director.
Still to confirm: Eligibility · Training exposure · Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Training level · Medical registration · Examinations · Language · Visa / work authorisation · Fees · Insurance · Programme director
Source: Official WFNS training-centre register. Reviewed 13 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Medicine
Athens · Greece
Listed lead Lampis Stavrinou, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Application status: The page headlines 'Admissions 2026-2027' but gives no deadline or start date on the page read. Home page headline announces admissions for 2026-2027.
Funding: Self-funded; no scholarship stated on the page.
Exposure: Skull base and spine anatomy, intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring and mapping, functional neurosurgery, and neuroanatomy laboratories at the Athens Microneurosurgery Laboratory (skull base and spine approaches, white matter fibre dissection).
Eligibility: Admits holders of medical or related degrees from Greek institutions or equivalent foreign institutions recognised by DOATAP, and health professionals from recognised schools abroad.
Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Training level · Medical registration · Examinations · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents · Application route
Source: Official University of Athens MSc programme page. Reviewed 11 Nov 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.
Larissa · Greece
Application status: WFNS lists the Larissa track at six to twelve months. Its central short-term programme describes placements of up to three months, so the centre’s current intake and which route applies require separate verification.
Funding: Accommodation and two daily meals are provided by the department; Wi-Fi and access to the medical school and hospital libraries are included.
Exposure: Management of head trauma in a tertiary setting, surgical techniques for intracranial hypertension, traumatic intracranial haematomas and complex cranio-facial trauma, and exposure to multimodality neuromonitoring with the intensive care department.
Eligibility: The centre lists a medical diploma or medical faculty certificate and two recommendation letters in its application checklist. It gives no separate specialist-grade requirement.
Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Training level · International eligibility · Medical registration · Examinations · Language · Visa / work authorisation · Fees · Insurance · Programme director · Accreditation
Source: Official WFNS Foundation training centre page (University of Thessaly). Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.
Application status: WFNS lists the Larissa track at six to twelve months. Its central short-term programme describes placements of up to three months, so the centre’s current intake and which route applies require separate verification.
Funding: Accommodation and two daily meals are provided by the department; Wi-Fi and access to the medical school and hospital libraries are included.
Exposure: Multimodality management of brain tumours in a tertiary setting, advanced neuro-imaging, tumour resection techniques, intraoperative electrophysiological monitoring and extraoperative stimulation and mapping.
Eligibility: The centre lists a medical diploma or medical faculty certificate and two recommendation letters in its application checklist. It gives no separate specialist-grade requirement.
Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Training level · International eligibility · Medical registration · Examinations · Language · Visa / work authorisation · Fees · Insurance · Programme director · Accreditation
Source: Official WFNS Foundation training centre page (University of Thessaly). Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.
Application status: WFNS lists the Larissa track at six to twelve months. Its central short-term programme describes placements of up to three months, so the centre’s current intake and which route applies require separate verification.
Funding: Accommodation and two daily meals are provided by the department; Wi-Fi and access to the medical school and hospital libraries are included.
Exposure: Management of intracranial haemorrhage and subarachnoid haemorrhage, and surgical techniques for intracranial aneurysms, intracranial and spinal AVMs and cavernous malformations.
Eligibility: The centre lists a medical diploma or medical faculty certificate and two recommendation letters in its application checklist. It gives no separate specialist-grade requirement.
Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Training level · International eligibility · Medical registration · Examinations · Language · Visa / work authorisation · Fees · Insurance · Programme director · Accreditation
Source: Official WFNS Foundation training centre page (University of Thessaly). Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.
Application status: WFNS lists the Larissa track at six to twelve months. Its central short-term programme describes placements of up to three months, so the centre’s current intake and which route applies require separate verification.
Funding: Accommodation and two daily meals are provided by the department; Wi-Fi and access to the medical school and hospital libraries are included.
Exposure: Multimodality management of medically refractory epilepsy, advanced neuro-imaging, preoperative and intraoperative invasive EEG, and resective and neuromodulative surgical techniques.
Eligibility: The centre lists a medical diploma or medical faculty certificate and two recommendation letters in its application checklist. It gives no separate specialist-grade requirement.
Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Training level · International eligibility · Medical registration · Examinations · Language · Visa / work authorisation · Fees · Insurance · Programme director · Accreditation
Source: Official WFNS Foundation training centre page (University of Thessaly). Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.
Athens · Greece
Listed lead Alexandros Andreou, listed as Director of the Neurosurgery and Interventional Neuroradiology Department (host-level).
Application status: Listing on the AANS/CNS Cerebrovascular Section page for US trainees and faculty; page states the centre can offer a fellowship and an observership but gives no dates (page dated 2020).
Funding: Page notes gamma-knife treatment of vascular diseases is included in the programme but own funding is obligatory.
Exposure: Surgery and endovascular therapy (EVT) exposure in cerebrovascular neurosurgery, including gamma-knife treatment of vascular diseases.
Eligibility: Listed for US trainees and faculty seeking variable-length clinical exposure; no further criteria stated.
Still to confirm: Current status · Official source · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · International eligibility · Medical registration · Examinations · Language · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents · Accreditation
Source: AANS/CNS Cerebrovascular Section international sites listing (aggregator; confirm with host). Reviewed 29 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.
