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Orthopaedic educational grants to fellowship and residency programs - with independence and transparency. |
OMeGA
Medical Grants Association fellowship grants support clinical
fellowship programs in all nine orthopaedic subspecialty categories. Grants may be used for fellow salary and benefits only. Programs must email OMeGA to request preapproval of exceptional items if salary and benefit support is not possible.
2017-2018 Hand & Upper Extremity fellowship grant recipients
Grants were awarded to 13 Hand & Upper Extremity fellowship programs:
* Developing Program
Click here to view the entire list of 2017-2018 fellowship grant recipients.
2018-2019 fellowship grant cycle schedule
Application period opens: Monday, September 25, 2017
Application period closes: Tuesday, December 5, 2017, 5pm CST
Review period: December 2017-February 2018
Grant notifications: April 2018
Public announcement: June 2018
Funds distributed: August 2018
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Hand & Upper Extremity data at a glance
Grant recipient programs submit reports providing trending data. Aggregate data is shared only when there is a minimum of five recipients in a subspecialty in an academic year.
OMeGA-supported fellows in the first six months of the 2015-2016 academic year reported 15 Hand & Upper Extremity clinical research projects
Figure 1: Average number of Hand & Upper Extremity procedures performed per quarter for years of tracked data.
"Our program is grateful to OMeGA for this grant which has helped to support our fellow as he pursues his academic and clinical activities and accomplishes his learning objectives." OMeGA grant recipient programThank you to our 2017-2018 Hand & Upper Extremity fellowship donors
Funding for OMeGA grants is made possible through the generous support of orthopaedic GME from the following donors.
Zimmer Biomet, founding supporter
* Top 2017-2018 Hand & Upper Extremity donor
Thank you to our subspecialty society affiliate
Together, OMeGA and the orthopaedic subspecialty societies support quality graduate medical education and excellence in patient care.
American Association for Hand Surgery
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