International Training

Gynecologic Oncology (Women’s Cancer Center)

Gynecologic Oncology (Women’s Cancer Center)

Clinical Procedures

You will be spending a lot of time in the operating room acquiring good amount of exposure to gynecologic oncology surgery. 

Clinical training encompasses all areas of surgeries including ovarian cancer surgery, endometrial cancer surgery, and cervical cancer surgery. These operations specifically focuses on debulking surgery, laparoscopic and robot-assisted staging surgery, staging laparotomy, laparoscopic and robot-assisted radical hysterectomy with sentinel lymph node mapping, and radical abdominal surgery.

You will have also great exposure to ovarian cyst and uterine tumor, specifically dealing with laparoscopic and robotic ovarian cyst enucleation, laparoscopic and robotic hysterectomy, myomectomy.

Research training

You will have opportunities to get involved in research activities. We have tremendous resources, including extensive procedural databases, statistics, and access to the medical library and e-journals.

With guidance of your faculty mentor, you will pursue short or long-term projects and submit abstract to domestic or international meetings. You will also be able to publish highly recognized surgical journals with the cooperation with faculties, Korean and international fellows.

Academic Activities

Trainees will be able to participate in :


1. Weekly journal club (Wednesday 4 PM)

2. Weekly lab meeting (Wednesday 11:00 AM, Thursday 9 AM)

3. Weekly clinical trail meeting (Thursday 11 AM)

4. Korean Society of Gynecologic Oncology in April and October.

Hands-on Medical Practice

Physicians who train at Severance for 6 months or longer can gain more experience by participating in hands-on medical practice. The scope of hands-on medical practice is strictly regulated under the Korean Medical Law Article 27 paragraph (1) of the Medical Service Act and Article 18 subparagraph 2 of the Enforcement Rule of the same act. Every doctor who wants to get approval for medical hands-on practice has to officially apply for the permission of Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare through Severance Academy.

Please read carefully the following instructions :

[Qualifications]
  1. Applicant(physician) must possess a medical license from a foreign country and have minimum 3 years of clinical experience AFTER acquiring his/her medical license or certificate of specialty.

  2. The Physician must have a letter of recommendation issued by the trainee’s government organization that is in charge of issuing the medical license or certificate of specialty.
[Application Process]
  1. Trainees must complete a 3-months pre-training course before application.
    • 1) The 1-month education program is focused on Korean language, culture, and healthcare system.
           The 2-months are consisted of clinical observation at Severance Hospital.
    • 2) The 1-month education program can be completed by participating in the SIF-PC course provided by Severance Academy.
  2. The application result will be noticed within 20 days after application.

(However, if the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Korea requests for revision or additional documents, the preparation period will not be counted as the 20-days reviewing period.)

[Practice Conditions]
  1. Every hands-on practice shall be done under the supervision of designated training professors. Medical practice performed by a trainee him- or herself is strictly prohibited.

  2. Hands-on practice is only allowed within Severance Hospital.

  3. An informed consent from a patient is necessary before practice.

  4. The scope of hands-on practice shall be approved by the General Director of Severance Hospital before performing it.
  • Please refer to the Notification for more details : Download
  • Recommendation Letter Sample : Download

Training Duration and Activities

table for Training Duration and Activities
DurationObservationHands-on PracticeLectureResearchConference & SeminarRobot Training
6 monthsOOO
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1 yearOOO OOO
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Hands-on Practice is allowed ONLY after the permission of Korea MOHW.

All activities and schedule are subject to change according to department schedule.