OMeGA - Medical Grants Association

Application period for 2019-2020 fellowship grants is 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 educational 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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2018-2019 fellowship grant recipients

Grants were awarded to 134 fellowship programs.

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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.

2019 OMeGA officers

Dr. Rex C. Haydon continues as OMeGA's President. Langdon A. Hartsock, MD, is the new Secretary and Julie Y. Bishop, MD continues as the Treasurer.

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Click here to see the list of 2019 OMeGA board members

Click here to see the list of 2019 OMeGA advisory board members

Click here to see the list of 2019 OMeGA review committee members

Orthopaedic community joins forces to rally support for orthopaedic GME

In 2019, OMeGA, AAOS, OREF, AOA and 20 other orthopaedic societies joined together to approve and sign the fifth 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.

Corporate support broadens reach of OMeGA grants

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.

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