The American College of Surgeons Scholarships 2025 seek suitably qualified applicants for participation in a number of educational activities aimed at acquiring fresh knowledge and techniques on surgical education and practice.
This offers up to $10,000 annually as a pre- and postdoctoral award to young faculty from non-US/Canadian countries. This training will help the scholar to enhance surgical education in his or her home country by virtue of the acquired knowledge.
Summary of the Application
- Host Country: United States of America (USA)
- Host Institution(s): American College of Surgeons
- Scholarship Type: Partial Funding
- Scholarship Worth: $10,000
- Number of Awards: Several
- Study Level: Postgraduate
- Eligible Country: All Nationalities
- Application Deadline: January 15, 2025
Rules to Get Aid / Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for the ACS Medical Scholarships, applicants must meet the following criteria:
- The applicants must be certified doctors that graduated from a school of medicine and also successfully passed a postgraduate training program in surgery.
- The applicant should be a fully certified surgeon with at least five years’ experience post-certification plus a maximum of 20 years’ experience.
- Applications for these positions should be submitted by applicants from their proposed permanent location.
- The applications will not be filed until the applicants should have worked, taught, or researched for a full year at their permanent location after formal training is complete, including fellowships and scholarships.
- They should provide proof of their dedication towards exceptional surgery, surgical learning, and ensuring that the public has proper surgical coverage in their region.
- Past awardees of ACS international scholarships do not qualify.
- All fields must be submitted by applicants. All application documents excluding references should be written in English.
- Applicants with no exposure to training or surgical fellowships in the U.S. and Canada will be highly considered.
- Applicants must provide three separately written letters of reference from their colleagues. In their country, one letter must be from the chair of the department where they have a clinical or academic post or by a FACSurgeon.
- Each ISSURGED award is meant to be utilised for a single-year period.
- Upon returning home, awardees should submit a written report on the benefits of the visit and its potential impact on patient care back home.
Application Process
The interested applicants in the medical scholarships of the American College of Surgeons must fill out an online application with all the necessary appendages.