International Surgeons Are Invited to Apply for Community Surgeons Travel Awards

The International Relations Committee of the ACS has announced travel awards for international surgeons aged 30 to 50. The deadline to apply is September 13.

The awards, in the amount of $4,000 each, are proposed to specifically assist surgeons who work in community or regional hospitals or clinics in countries other than the US and Canada, or who are from poorly resourced academic departments of surgery in poorly resourced countries.

They provide the opportunity to attend and participate fully in the educational activities of the ACS annual Clinical Congress.

Each awardee will receive complimentary registration to the annual Clinical Congress and to one available postgraduate course held during the Clinical Congress. Assistance will be provided to obtain preferential housing in an economical hotel in the Clinical Congress host city.

In addition, a new Community Surgeon Travel Award has been donated through the generosity of the Doctors Duremdes family designated for Filipino surgeons. It gives preference to meritorious applications from Iloilo Province, Panay Island, and non-urban Philippine communities.

Read more about the award requirements and apply today.