The American College of Surgeons Scholarships 2024 seek suitably qualified applicants for participation in a number of educational activities aimed at acquiring fresh knowledge and techniques on surgical education and practice.
This offers up to $10,000 annually as a pre-and-postdoctoral award to young faculty from non-US/Canadian countries. This training will help the scholar to enhance surgical education in his or her home country by virtue of the acquired knowledge.
Summary
- Host Country:Â United States of America (USA)
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Host Institution(s): American College of Surgeons
- Scholarship Type: Partial Funding
- Scholarship Worth:Â $10,000
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Number of Awards: Several
- Study Level:Â Postgraduate
- Eligible Country:Â All Nationalities
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Application Deadline: January 15, 2024
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Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for the ACS Medical Scholarships, applicants must meet the following criteria:
- The applicants must be certified doctors that graduated from a school of a medicine and also successfully passed a post graduate training program in surgery.
- The applicant should be fully certified surgeon with at least five years’ experience post-certification plus maximum of 20 years’ experience.
- Applications for these positions should be submitted by applicants from their proposed permanent location.
- The applications will not be filed until the applicants should have worked or taught or researched for a full year at their permanent location after formal training is complete, including fellowships and scholarships.
- They should provide proof of their dedication towards exceptional surgery, surgical learning, and ensuring that the public has proper surgical coverage in their region.
- Past awardees of ACS international scholarships do not qualify.
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All fields must be submitted by applicants. All application documents, excluding references should be written in English.
- Applicants with no exposure of training, or surgical fellowships in the U.S. and Canada will be highly considered.
- Applicants must provide three separately written letters of reference from their colleagues. In their country, one letter must be from the chair of the department where they have a clinical or academic post or by a FACSurgeon.
- Each ISSURGED award is meant to be utilised for a single-year period.
- Upon returning home, awardees should submit a written report on the benefits of the visit and its potential impact on patient care back home.
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How to Apply
The interested applicants in the Medical scholarships of American college of surgeons must fill in an online application with all the necessary appendages.
