The Children’s Orthopedics in Underserved Regions committee would like to call for nominations for our International Scholars Program. POSNA has allotted $10,000 per year for scholars to attend the POSNA annual meeting or IPOS meeting. We also hope that the recipients will be able to spend an additional period of time at local/regional institutions to supplement their educational experience.
Nominees should be from a resource challenged environment, have a need for financial support, have the majority of their practice in pediatric orthopedics, and ideally be a leader in his or her community.
- Read about COUR International Scholars Program
- International Scholars Application
- History of Scholarship Recipients
As a sponsor, you will be responsible for coordinating the recipient’s trip to the United States, and hosting them at the annual meeting. Responsibilities include:
- Writing a letter of recommendation and complete sponsor information form.
- Picking up the scholar from the airport and transport to assigned hotel for the POSNA or IPOS meeting.
- Introducing the scholar to colleagues
- Accompanying scholar to social events
- Helping the recipient navigate thru the POSNA meeting (i.e. pick up at the airport, attend events, etc)
We also hope that the sponsor will encourage the scholar to visit an institution after the annual meeting in the local area or to an area of interest to the scholar. The local or regional host will be selected from a pool of volunteers, maintained by COUR specifically for this purpose. The COUR committee will be available to assist and advise you.
Any POSNA member could also participate by:
- Donating air-miles to help finance scholars (contact Teri Stech: stech@aaos.org)
- Hosting a recipient at your home institution, including room and board, and travel expenses, for several days or a week, pre or post POSNA meeting for educational exchange. The COUR committee will keep a database of volunteers, and will send an email out to those in the database as the meeting approaches. (Send email to Sanjeev Sabharwal or Rick Schwend).
Please email your nominations with contact info to Cristina Cabral (cabral@aaos.org). Please direct any questions to Sanjeev Sabharwal (sabharsa@umdnj.edu) or Rick Schwend (rmschwend@cmh.edu). Our deadline for receiving completed applications will be November 1st.
2010 Annual Meeting
May 4-7, 2010 in Waikoloa, HIPediatric Orthopaedic Study Guide Updated
See Also
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Annual Meeting Instant Archive
(POSNA Members - Please Log in first to access Discussion Sessions) - E-posters
- Past Annual Meetings
May 16-19, 2012 in Denver, CO
