Long-Term Fellowship Program
Support for long-term fellowship programs to advance post-graduate education in orthopedic trauma surgery.
Applications are now closed and will reopen in the Fall of 2026.
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.
2026 - 2027 Fellowship sites
Carolinas Medical Center
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Cooper University Hospital/ Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Dalhousie University
Detroit Medical Center Wayne State University
Duke University
Emory University at Grady Memorial Hospital
Indiana University School of Medicine
Maine Health Maine Medical Center
Metrohealth Medical Center
OrthoIndy
Rutgers, The State of University, New Jersey Medical School
Saint Francis Hospital
SSM Health/Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Tampa General Hospital
The Curators of the University of Missouri
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
UC San Diego
University of Calgary - Foothills Orthopaedic Trauma Research & Education Foundation
University of California, Davis Health System
University of California, San Francisco
University of Florida
University of Maryland Medical System
University of Miami
University of Minnesota, Regions Hospital
University of Mississippi Medical Center
University of Rochester
University of Southern California
University of Tennessee College of Medicine at Chattanooga/Erlanger
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
University of Washington Orthopaedics
Vancouver General Hospital - UBC
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Virginia Commonwealth University
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Washington University/B-JH/SLCH Consortium
Yale New Haven Hospital / Yale School of Medicine