AAOS has announced applications for the 2016 International Surgical Skills Scholarship Program. AAOS awards scholarships to international orthopaedic surgeons from countries with limited resources to attend a hands-on orthopaedic surgical skills course with cadaveric specimens in the Orthopaedic Learning Center in Rosemont, Illinois, USA and have a week-long observership at a US hospital.
It offers scholarships each year on a rotating basis to orthopaedic surgeons in one of two geographic regions of the world. For the 2016 scholarship year, applications will be accepted from qualified orthopaedic surgeons who are citizens of selected countries in Europe, Asia and Pacific identified by the World Bank as low to upper middle income (based on Gross National Income). See here the full list of countries.
apply online by due date is 27 July 2015.
MOre information on
www.aaos.org/internationalscholarship