Lumbar disc herniation is a common disease that presents as low back pain, lower limb pain, numbness, weakness, or claudication etc. For patients whose conservative treatment failed, surgery may be the best option. In recent years, unilateral biportal endoscopic (UBE) spinal surgery for the treatment of lumbar degenerative diseases and other diseases has gradually increased. It is generally believed that UBE surgery has the advantages of a wider field of vision, flexible operation, minimally invasive, and contributing to full nerve decompression and faster recovery.
Navigating the UBE learning curve is a concern for most surgeons who wish to use this technology. Quexst Healthcare offers a short duration fellowship in UBE technique for Spine Surgery.
The duration of clinical rotation is 2 weeks. It is fully practice based, with learning on real patients. Student will be given opportunity to observe, assist based on the capability of the student and permission of the patient.
You will receive the course certificate from the teaching hospital. The certificate issued on successful completion of the clinical rotation is not a registrable qualification.
Our experts work in following learning areas, however, your exposure of these learning points depends on cases with problems notified by patients at the time of your clinical rotation.
- Introduction
- OT setup
- Equipment
- Operative Steps
- Surgical Procedure
- Position and anaesthesia
- Target Point
- Working channel Portal
- Endoscopic portal
- Creating working space
- Bleeding control
The steps to be followed are updated below:
- Send us copies of your Medical Council Registration, degrees, and your CV
- Send a statement of purpose giving details of your learning objectives in relation to your experience level.
- Your request with documents provided by you will be sent for eligibility confirmation.
- On receiving confirmation, the Proforma Invoice along with fees and bank details will be sent to you.
- On receipt of fees payment by bank transfer, you will receive a call from operations team for further documentation and fellowship joining requirement & guidelines.
- Please follow the same and be in touch with our Operations team for any problems.
- As the Clinical Rotation are conducted in private hospitals, to protect the interest of the patients and as per medical ethics, the student will only observe the patients and surgeries. The intention is to give the student opportunity to learn through hands-on experience, however, the decision to provide wash-up or scrub opportunity to the student will be taken by the mentor during the rotation period depending on the skills and knowledge of the student.
- This is full time learning opportunity, student is expected to be present for minimum 10 hours for 6 days a week.
- Medical Council registration is required.
- The cost of medical council registration will be borne by the student. The rotation duration is minimum 4 weeks or as defined in eligibility confirmation letter. The clinical rotation period is without a break. There are pre-defined start and end dates. Students need to comply to the pre-defined dates.
- Patient flow with any mentor and at different time of the year can not be predicted and cannot be committed to.
- A student is expected to travel to learn , if required where ever the mentor is conducting a case. The student could be asked to be present to assist / observe a case at any time of the day.
- The registration is valid for 6 months. The student must join the rotation within 6 months of registration date.
- The Initial Instalment of fees paid by the student is non-refundable under all conditions. In case of cancellation of rotation by the mentor or teaching hospital, the same will be re-scheduled & no refund will be given.
- This proforma invoice defines the scheduled dates of your rotation. The same can be modified only once, minimum one month before the joining date. The modification request must be sent on fellowships@quexst.com in writing. the new scheduled date must be within 6 months of date of registration.
