Faculty / program leadership: Brigitte van der Heijden / current NUHT faculty
Profile completeness68%
Well sourced · Missing original program page, duration, commencement date
— Primary programme source linked✓ Dated source review current— Current cycle evidenced✓ Faculty identity sourced✓ Institution mark verified
DECISION SUMMARY
What matters before you keep reading.
Eligibility
Requirements published
Funding
Self-funded according to the historical FESSH listing
Deadline
Historical directory listing only; current deadline not published
Duration
Not published
Hands-on
No hands-on role indicated
Last checked
20 Aug 2026
Duration · not publishedDuration is not published; availability requires a new enquiry
Clinical exposureHistorical FESSH listing: observer-only hand, wrist and peripheral-nerve exposure without practising rights
Funding · publishedSelf-funded according to the historical FESSH listing
DestinationNetherlands
Participation levelObservational pathway. No independent patient care or operative privileges are implied.
INTERNATIONAL APPLICANT CHECK
What the official evidence currently supports
Decision-critical fields are separated into confirmed facts, partial information and points requiring direct confirmation.
—Not published
International applicant eligibility
The cited source does not explicitly confirm international-applicant eligibility.
✓Published by official source
Required training level
Relevant hand, plastic, trauma or orthopaedic surgical training · Current acceptance by the Radboudumc hand team
✓Published by official source
Programme classification
Observational pathway; no independent patient care is implied.
?Confirm directly with host
Hands-on restrictions
Hands-on clinical activity is not described for this observational pathway.
≈Partially published
Medical registration
Observer-only without practising rights under the older centre-submitted record.
?Confirm directly with host
Licensing examinations
Any examination requirement must be confirmed with the relevant regulator and host.
✓Published by official source
Language requirements
No language requirement is published for the observer route; Dutch requirements apply if a future clinical role is considered.
—Not published
Visa or work authorisation
Visa sponsorship and work-authorisation information are not published.
✓Published by official source
Funding availability
Self-funded according to the historical FESSH listing
DATA QUALITY & AVAILABILITY
52% of core application fields verified
Checked 20 Aug 2026. Next scheduled editorial review: 2027-02-16. Every unresolved field keeps its exact evidence state—unpublished, not yet researched, historical, conflicting, inaccessible or not applicable—so an absence is never converted into a fact.
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APPLICATION TIMELINE & CONTACT
Plan the application
Application deadlineHistorical directory listing only; current deadline not published
Commencing dateIntake date not published
Application route / cycleContact Radboudumc NUHT directly to confirm whether observation is currently available; the old FESSH listing is not an approved vacancy
Official contactNijmeegs Universitair Handen Team / Plastic Surgery Clinic+31 24 361 95 94
Deadlines and intake dates can change between cycles. The data-quality ledger above explicitly labels application fields that the cited official source does not publish.
ELIGIBILITY & REQUIREMENTS
Published entry requirements
Clinical / academic eligibility
Relevant hand, plastic, trauma or orthopaedic surgical training
Current acceptance by the Radboudumc hand team
Registration, licence & examinations
Observer-only without practising rights under the older centre-submitted record.
Visa / work authorisation
Visa sponsorship or work-authorisation requirements are not stated by the cited source.
Application documents
CV, personal statement, recommendation-letter, transcript and identity-document requirements are not published by the cited official source.
Licensing, visa and document rules depend on the individual programme and application cycle. OrthoFellow does not infer USMLE, AHPRA, ECFMG, recommendation-letter or visa requirements from the country alone.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
What this program offers
An older FESSH observer listing refreshed against Radboudumc's current multidisciplinary hand team and 2025 trauma-related hand-surgery professorship. The original contact is outdated, so availability must be reconfirmed through the current unit.
HOST INSTITUTION
About Radboudumc — Nijmeegs Universitair Handen Team
NUHT currently brings together Plastic Surgery, Trauma Surgery, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation for hand and wrist trauma, chronic degeneration and congenital differences.
Professor of trauma-related hand surgery and current Radboudumc facultyOfficial profile & photo verified
Current position
Fellowship supervisor / program leadership
Affiliation
Radboudumc / Radboud University
Clinical focus
Hand and wrist trauma, multidisciplinary care, 4DCT and outcome research
Qualifications
Not published on the cited profile
Brigitte van der Heijden is listed in the cited programme evidence as professor of trauma-related hand surgery and current radboudumc faculty for Radboudumc NUHT Hand & Peripheral Nerve Observership Enquiry. The verified individual profile describes a focus in Hand and wrist trauma, multidisciplinary care, 4DCT and outcome research. This association does not by itself confirm personal supervision, operative privileges or availability for a future intake.
Brigitte van der Heijden is listed by the official programme source as professor of trauma-related hand surgery and current radboudumc faculty. A separate individual short CV has not yet been verified by OrthoFellow.
Names and fellowship roles come from the cited programme source. A green “individual profile verified” label means the position, qualifications and biography were also checked against an official personal or institutional profile. OrthoFellow displays a portrait only when it can be tied to an official profile or faculty source; otherwise the host institution brandmark is shown, with initials retained only when neither image is available. Faculty rosters may change.
APPLICANT PROFILE
Hand, plastic, trauma and orthopaedic surgeons seeking observation in a multidisciplinary university team
