Long-Term Fellowship Program
Support for long-term fellowship programs to advance post-graduate education in orthopedic trauma surgery.
Application is open from November 1st, 2023 – January 31st, 2024
AO Trauma North America (AO Trauma NA) is intensely engaged in education and research through its long-term fellowship designed to provide the best knowledge and skills from each generation of skilled surgeons to the next. AO Trauma NA has established a transparent, non-conflicted, long-term fellowship program supervised and monitored by a Fellowship Committee of surgeons with expertise in the area of postgraduate education. The AO Trauma NA Long-Term Fellowship (LTF) Program Dedicated to Supporting the Best in Fellowship Education, cohesively links the essentials for development of a well-trained orthopedic trauma and/or fracture surgeon with best in education content and methods.
The AO Trauma NA Long-Term Fellowship (LTF) Program provides funding support directly to the trauma fellowship program and is inclusive of all the trauma fellows in the program. The program provides:
- Expertise from a peer-approved orthopedic trauma program for the development of well-trained orthopedic trauma and/or fracture fellows providing the best education content and teaching methodology
- Continuous monitoring and revisions to the program site by the AO Trauma NA Fellowship Committee; based on feedback from fellows and program directors
- Educational opportunities for fellows to network, enhance skills and impart knowledge
- Valuable AO Foundation and AO Trauma NA resources including:
Fellows Cadaver Course
Fellows Webinar Series
Fellows Research Grant Opportunities
Fellows Networking Events
Fellows Davos Experience and more …
Administration
The administration of this grant will be through AO North America. The AO Trauma NA Fellowship Committee allocates funding for the long-term fellowship program to advance post-graduate education in orthopedic trauma surgery.
The AO Trauma NA Fellowship Committee is responsible for:
- Establishing criteria for the distribution of available funds
- Selecting grant recipients from among qualified institutions according to the criteria established by the Board
- Making decisions regarding the awarding of funds for educational programs that facilitate the development of expertise in fracture management principles and techniques
- Overseeing solicitation and review of applications, conducting an unbiased selection process, providing documentation to institutional recipients, and ensuring all funding support provided by industry donors is properly disbursed and all institutions receiving funds account for the use of all grant funds
Funding may not be used for indirect costs.
How to Apply
2023 - 2024 Fellowship sites
1. University of Washington Orthopedics |
2. University of California Davis |
3. North Shore University Hospital - Northwell Health |
4. Toronto Western Hospital |
5. Mayo Clinic - Ortho |
6. OrthoCarolina |
7. University of Utah - Orthopedics |
8. McGill University |
9. Augusta University |
10. University of Calgary |
11. Washington University Orthopedics |
12. University of Southern California |
13. Cleveland Clinic |
14. Mayo Clinic - Neurosurgery |
15. Swedish Neurosciences |
16. West Virginia University |
17. Rush University - Neuro |
18. Hospital for Special Surgery |
19. CHU Sainte-Justine |
20. The Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia |
21. Brown University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery |
22. Northwestern University |
23. Virginia Mason Medical Center - Center for Neurosciences and Spine |
24. University of Cincinnati |
17. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Program |
18. University of Tennessee College of Medicine at Chattanooga |
19. Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School |
20. MetroHealth Medical Center |
21. University of Alabama at Birmingham |
22. Wake Forest University School of Medicine |
23. University of British Columbia, Vancouver |
24. Rutgers New Jersey |
25. St. Louis University School of Medicine |
26. Dalhousie University, Halifax |
27. Detroit Medical Center Corportation Program |
28. Denver Health Medical Center |
29. Ortho Indy |
30. University of Southern California/LAC+USC Medical Center |
31. Stanford University Program |