FNB in Trauma & Acute Care Surgery is a doctoral companionship program for doctors in India that they do after completion of their postgraduate medical degree course. The course duration is 2 years.

Trauma and Acute Care Surgery course is a specialty of surgery catering to the emergent and postponed needs of an injured patient and patients with emergency non-trauma surgical requirements, with the responsibility of all care of emergency surgical patients, including coordinating care with other Sub-specialties applied in Emergency Surgical & Trauma Care and maintaining continuity of care.

The surgeon will look after the injured patient in critical surgical care/ Surgical ICU and perform ICU management specific to the needs of Postoperative/ surgical patients.

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The course is full-time pursued at various approved hospitals across the country. The top institutions include Medical Trust Hospital, Kochi, Ganga Medical Centre and Hospital, Coimbatore, and more.

Candidates can get admission to 2 years course after successfully qualifying for the (FET) Fellowship Entrance Test examination, which NBEMS conducts. FET is conducted annually as per the specified schedule—the merit-based counseling for admissions to the FNB Programme after NBEMS administers the conduct of FET.

The fee for following FNB Trauma & Acute Care Surgery varies from approved hospital to hospital and is Rs.1,25,000 per year.

After completing their respective program, doctors can join the job market. Candidates can take decent jobs as research fellows, Senior residents, Consultants, etc., with an approximate average salary range of Rs. 25 lakhs to Rs. 54 lakhs per year.

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Eligibility Criteria

• For any modifications, please refer to the NBE website.

• There is no upper age limitation for training in NBEMS Fellowship courses.

Admission Procedure

• FET is a qualifying-cum-ranking exam for admission to Fellow of National Board FNB - Post Doctoral courses.
• The selection of a student will be via an MCQ-based examination, namely Fellowship Entrance Test.
• A student can apply for the fellowship programs for which his/her broad or super specialty qualification/ equivalent qualification is suitable at the time of online submission of the application form.
• The complete duration of the question paper will be 105 minutes (Part A - 45 and Part B - 60 minutes).
• Qualifying Criteria: Students who obtain a minimum 50 Percentile in their respective question paper/specialty shall be declared "Qualified."
• NBEMS shall announce a specialty-wise merit list, i.e., an individual merit list for each fellowship program. There shall not be any equating/scaling and normalization. The merit shall be generated strictly based on scores obtained by the candidate and the application of the specified tie-breaking criteria.
• The admission to Fellowship programs in the accredited hospitals shall be undertaken solely based on merit-based counseling conducted by NBEMS.
• Documents needed to be produced during counseling: MBBS Degree Certificate and MD/MS/DNB/DM/MCh/DrNB Degree Certificate/Provisional Pass Certificate of qualified Post Graduate Medical Qualification issued.

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