Emerging Global Leaders - OTA Women’s Fellow (EGLOW) Scholarship

Emerging Global Leaders - OTA Women’s Fellow (EGLOW) Scholarship

The application has closed for 2025. Check back later this year to apply for the 2026 EGLOW Fellow Scholarship.

Program Objectives

• Recognize the achievements of women orthopaedic surgeons who are emerging leaders in their resource-limited home countries.

• Provide educational opportunities that will enhance their practice of orthopaedic 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 orthopaedic trauma.

Fellowship Details

• Up to two fellows will be selected each year and will be female orthopaedic surgeons from resource-limited countries as designated by the World Bank. Click here to see if your country qualifies.

• The Humanitarian and Diversity Committees will review all applications and select the recipients.

• Application requirements:

  • Application form

  • Personal statement written by the applicant

  • 2 letters of recommendation

  • CV

• The fellowship includes:

  • A 3–5-day observership at a North American trauma center;

  • Travel expenses to the OTA annual meeting to include:

    • Transportation from home country to the OTA annual meeting

    • All potential travel to the observership site within North America (if in a different city than the Annual Meeting)

    • Hotel stays for the OTA Annual Meeting and the observership

    • Small per diem

  • Paid 2025 OTA Annual Meeting registration

  • Paid one-year OTA membership

  • Recognition at the International Reception

  • Recognition at the Women in Orthopaedic Trauma Reception

Meet the OTA EGLOW Fellow Scholarship Recipients