OMeGA - Medical Grants Association
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To advance the orthopaedic profession by supporting meritorious graduate medical education without conflicts or bias |
Application period for 2021-2022 fellowship grants is now closed
Applications are now being reviewed. To all applicants: Please respond within the time frame indicated if asked for additional information.
Grants support clinical orthopaedic fellowship programs and may be used for a fellow's salary and benefits. Programs can request preapproval of other direct education expense during the application process if salary and benefit support is not possible. All applications are reviewed by subspecialty experts based on objective criteria including faculty expertise, ratio of fellows to faculty, educational resources and program emphasis on research
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Congratulations to the 2020-2021 fellowship grant recipients
Grants were awarded to 139 meritorious US fellowship programs. This includes grants in all 9 subspecialties and is a record number for OMeGA.
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OMeGA receives a $7 million donation for US fellowship education
Zimmer Biomet, OMeGA's founding supporter, recently announced they will provide $7 million for the 2020-2021 academic year. This donation supports orthopaedic fellows across all nine subspecialties.
Funding is critical to OMeGA's mission to provide nonconflicted support to meritorious orthopaedic teaching programs and we greatly value all companies that support fellowship education through our third party model. Zimmer Biomet's generous donation will allow OMeGA to award a greater number of grants and increased grant amounts. Many programs rely on OMeGA for fellowship funding and Zimmer Biomet's contribution will allow them to focus their efforts on educating fellows rather than worry about how to fund the best future orthopaedic surgeons.
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Subspecialty connections
OMeGA supports fellowship programs in all nine orthopaedic subspecialties. To find information and resources for each subspecialty, hover over the "Fellowship Grants and Subspecialty Pages" button on the left and click links in the drop-down menu.
2020 OMeGA officers
Dr. Kevin P. Black is OMeGA's new President. Langdon A. Hartsock, MD, continues as the Secretary and Richard J. D'Ascoli, MD is the new Treasurer.
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Click here to see the list of 2020 OMeGA board members
Click here to see the list of 2020 OMeGA advisory board members
Click here to see the list of 2020 OMeGA review committee members
In 2020, OMeGA, AAOS, OREF, AOA and 20 other orthopaedic societies joined together to approve and sign the sixth US letter to industry to encourage support for graduate medical education (GME). Industry support of quality orthopaedic residency and fellowship programs is critical to secure the future of the orthopaedic profession. To demonstrate the crucial need for nonconflicted, merit-based funding provided by OMeGA GME grants, and to enlist help from industry, this letter was sent to current and potential supporters of OMeGA. The letter outlines a brief history of GME funding, defines the role OMeGA grants play in the orthopaedic GME landscape, and calls on industry to act on behalf of orthopaedic patients and the orthopaedic educational system.
OMeGA Medical Grants Association is the only third-party administrator of grants in all orthopaedic subspecialty categories. Since 2008, OMeGA has collaborated with corporate donors to support quality orthopaedic residency programs and fellowship education. OMeGA grants provide an objective, non-conflicted, transparent funding mechanism to assure continued funding of orthopaedic training--education that is critical to maintaining quality orthopaedic patient care. In its first ten years OMeGA has received 2,084 applications for residency and fellowship support, and requests from meritorious programs continue to grow.
Click here if you would like to receive email notifications of future OMeGA grant application periods. Provide your name, title, email address, and institution name. Notifications will be sent for all grant cycles unless "fellowship only" or "residency only" is specified. Your information will be used only as it pertains to OMeGA and will not be shared.
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OMeGA Fellowship GLM (Grant Lifecycle Manager)
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Grants are available through the generous support of donors
Thank you to our donors that truly support the orthopaedic profession, funding multiple subspecialty categories.
