Clinical Residency (Ordinatura) in Neurosurgery

Plan the application.

Application status

Current availability unconfirmed

Commencement

Successful candidates are admitted by 1 August each year (national schedule: documents from 22 June, entrance tests 6–20 July).

Duration

2 years full-time (foreign citizens may extend to up to 5 years on request)

Positions

2026: 2 state-funded full-time places

Application route

Submit the application and documents in person (or through an authorised representative) to the centre's admission (competition) committee, room 314 of the administrative-laboratory building, during the published window; then sit the entrance examination.

Standalone deadline

2026 documents 22 June–2 July 2026; examination 20 July 2026 (closed)

Official contact

info@neuro.by

Published entry requirements.

Clinical or academic eligibility

Entrance examination in neurosurgery; surgical specialties are taught full-time only.

Training level

Postgraduate clinical residency (ordinatura) for specialist doctors

Funding and support

Budget-funded clinical residents receive a monthly stipend for the whole training period under the standard Ministry of Health contract; foreign citizens train on a paid basis (amounts not published).

Benefits, fees & relocation

Benefits not published in this profile. Programme fees are not published. Insurance details are not published. Accommodation support is not published.

Application documents

• Application on the prescribed form
• Personnel record sheet certified by the HR service
• Autobiography
• Copy of the higher medical education diploma (or recognised foreign diploma) with supplement
• Copy of the certificate recognising a foreign education document and its equivalence (if applicable)
• Copy of the internship certificate
• Copy of qualification category document (if any)
• Employment record extract (if any)
• Copy of academic degree diploma (if any)
• Three 3 × 4 cm colour photographs
• Medical certificate of health
• Copy of identity document
• Document confirming the right to stay in Belarus (foreign citizens)
• Documents in foreign languages with notarised Belarusian or Russian translation

Licence, examinations, language & visa

Registration requirements need direct confirmation. Entrance examination in neurosurgery (2026 intake: 20 July 2026, after admission-committee review on 9 July) Documents in other languages must be accompanied by a notarised translation into Belarusian or Russian; training contracts are drawn up in Russian. Foreign applicants must provide a document confirming their right to stay in the Republic of Belarus.