OMeGA - Medical Grants Association
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Orthopaedic educational grants to fellowship and residency programs - with independence and transparency. |
2018-2019 fellowship grant application period is now closed
Applications are now being reviewed. To all applicants: Please be patient as it is taking us slightly longer to review all applications. Respond within the time frame indicated if asked for additional information.
Fellowship grant applicants will be notified in May 2018. Grant recipients will be publicly announced in June 2018, or after all signed Grant Recipient Agreements have been returned.
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 expenses if salary and benefit support is not possible.) Applications are scored individually and ranked in comparison to other subspecialty applicants. Awards are determined by available funding each academic year, which varies by subspecialty.
Grants are available in all nine subspecialty categories:
Adult reconstruction/Arthroplasty
Foot & ankle
Hand & upper extremities
Orthopaedic oncology
Orthopaedic sports medicine
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
Broad look at the program's diversity over the past five years
Method of formal evaluation of faculty, fellows and fellowship program
Program's environment of research
Procedures performed and CPT codes reported in each subspecialty
Recent presentations/published papers
Quality of resources and facilities
2018-2019 fellowship grant 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
2017-2018 fellowship grant recipients
For the 2017-2018 academic year, OMeGA received 194 applications. Grants were awarded to 66.5% of fellowship program applicants.
Thank you to all applicants!
2017-2018 Fellowship grant recipients
Find subspecialty information and resources
OMeGA is pleased to acknowledge collaboration with orthopaedic subspecialty societies to support graduate medical education. Access individual subspecialty pages from the dropdown menu on the "Fellowship Grants and Subspecialty Pages" button to the left.
US society collaborators include:
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
American Association for Hand Surgery
American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons
American Orthopaedic Association
American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society
American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine
American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons
American Spinal Injury Association
Cervical Spine Research Society
Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction 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
Canadian society collaborators include:
Canadian Orthopaedic Association
Arthroscopy Association of Canada
Canadian Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society
Canadian Orthopaedic Oncology Society
Canadian Orthopaedic Trauma Society
Canadian Paediatric Orthopaedic Group
Canadian Shoulder & Elbow Society
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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.
Link to access your account
Access your OMeGA Fellowship GLM (Grant Lifecycle Manager) account.
Email info@omegamedicalgrants.org with any questions.
Thank you to our fellowship donors
Gold level
Zimmer Biomet, founding supporter
Silver level
Bronze level
