OMeGA - Medical Grants Association
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To advance the orthopaedic profession by supporting meritorious graduate medical education without conflicts or bias |
2024-2025 fellowship grant application period will open in January 2024
OMeGA Medical Grants Association (OMeGA) remains committed to nonconflicted support for orthopaedic graduate medical education (GME). However, the orthopaedic landscape has changed and OMeGA is adjusting our processes and timelines to continue to provide conflict-free and unbiased support across all orthopaedic subspecialties.
Changing the fellowship application timeline and process
The
timing of donation commitments has never coincided with the fellowship
program application and OMeGA's review schedules, due mostly to the
difference between fiscal and academic years. While it was
nerve-wracking, our trust in the system worked for 14 years.
Unfortunately, the orthopaedic sports medicine subspecialty was unfunded
for the 2023-2024 academic year despite OMeGA receiving many grant
requests in this category.
Delaying the 2024-2025 academic year application period from September 2023 to January 2024
We are making this change to provide as much time as possible for donors to provide commitment in late 2023 and to prevent the inefficiency that occurred in sports medicine from happening again in the future.
Shortening the application to make the review process more efficient
To accommodate this delayed application period, we are trimming the application to make the application simpler to complete and quicker to review.
2023-2024 fellowship grant recipients announced
Grant recipients have been chosen and notified of grant award amounts. For the 2023-2024 academic year, OMeGA is proud to support 82 fellows across the United States who will help advance the future of the orthopaedic discipline.
Grants (up to $75,000) support clinical orthopaedic fellowship programs in the US and may be used for salary, benefits, and education expenses (with preapproval). Applications are scored individually and ranked in comparison to other subspecialty applicants. Awards are determined by available funding and the meritorious applications received for each academic year which varies by subspecialty.
OMeGA awards grants in eight orthopaedic subspecialty categories:
Adult reconstruction/Arthroplasty
Foot & ankle
Hand & upper extremity
Orthopaedic oncology
Pediatric orthopaedics (including pediatric spine)
Shoulder & elbow
Spine (orthopaedic and combined orthopaedic/neurosurgery)
Trauma
Grants are awarded based on objective criteria including:
Faculty qualifications and expertise
Fellowship match information
Method of formal evaluation of faculty, fellows and fellowship program
Fellow's academic productivity
Procedures performed by CPT code
Program's ability to promote innovation through projects and technology
Broad look at the program's diversity over the past three years
Note: A grant will not be offered to a program with past due reports from previously awarded OMeGA grants.
2023-2024 Fellowship grant recipients
2024-2025 fellowship grant cycle schedule
Application period opens: January 2024
Review period: March 2024
Grant notifications: April 2024
Public announcement: June 2024
Funds distributed: August 2024
Providing needed support for over 15 years
OMeGA Medical Grants Association was established in 2008 to provide non-conflicted support for orthopaedic graduate medical education (GME), the future of orthopaedics. OMeGA has awarded nearly 1,600 grants totaling more than $41.7 million through the 2023-2024 academic year, with the majority of support in the nine fellowship subspecialties.
Find subspecialty information and resources
Thank you to the orthopaedic associations and subspecialty societies that collaborate with OMeGA to support graduate medical education. Access individual subspecialty pages from the drop-down menu on the "Fellowship Grants and Subspecialty Pages" button to the left.
OMeGA's 24 society collaborators include:
American Association for Hand Surgery
American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons
American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery
American Orthopaedic Association
American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society
American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine
American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons
American Society for Surgery of the Hand
Arthroscopy Association of North America
Cervical Spine Research Society
J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society
Musculoskeletal Infection Society
Orthopaedic Rehabilitation Association
Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation
Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America
Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society
Society of Military Orthopaedic Surgeons
Join our email listClick 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.
Link to access your account
Access your OMeGA Fellowship GLM (Grant Lifecycle Manager) account.
Email info@omegamedicalgrants.org with any questions.
Grants are available through the generous support of donors
Thank you to our donors that truly support the orthopaedic profession, funding multiple subspecialty categories.
