Emerging Global Leaders - OTA Women’s Fellowship Program (EGLOW)
Scholarship applications are now closed for 2024
OBJECTIVES
- Recognize the achievements of women orthopedic surgeons who are emerging leaders in their low and lower middle income home countries.
- Provide educational opportunities that will enhance their practice of orthopedic trauma and potentially raise the level of trauma care in their local home communities.
- Offer mentorship, role modeling, and community for these surgeons within the field of orthopedic trauma.
FELLOWSHIP DETAILS
- One to Two fellows will be selected per year and will be a female orthopedic surgeons from low or lower income countries as designated by the World Bank.
- Application process will include a personal statement, 2 letters of recommendation, and cv.
- Applications would be reviewed and voted upon by both the Humanitarian and Diversity Committees.
- The fellowship will include travel expenses to the OTA annual meeting as well as a 3-5 day observership at a North American institution.
- Transportation for the fellow from their country to the OTA annual meeting
- Hotel arrangements for the fellow while in North America
- Any potential travel to the site of the North American observership
- Annual meeting registration fees
- One year of OTA membership fees
- The fellow will be introduced and recognized at the Women in Orthopedic Trauma Reception