APOA-DEPUY Spine Travelling Fellowships

7 April 2008: REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED

Guidelines / Criteria for Applicants:

  1. APOA members AND members of the Spine Section of the APOA

  2. Age 45 years or less

  3. Can communicate effectively in English and have a legal status to go abroad

  4. Have a university level degree or country equivalent and have specialty for spine

  5. The application must be submitted on the official application form including the applicant's curriculum vitae and recommendation letter from two referees.

  6. Each application must be accomplished by an application fee of USD150 which is non-refundable. Applications which are not accompanied by the application fee will not be processed.

  7. The application fee can be paid on this website or in the form of a bank draft issued in favour of "Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association"

  8. The closing date for receipt of application form and fee is 7 April 2008

  9. Economy air-travel and hotel accommodation arrangements will be made by the APOA secretariat. Successful applicants will be given assistance towards securing their air-tickets but full reimbursement of travel expenses will only be made upon completion of their fellowship. The fellow is responsible for obtaining and payment of visas and visa fees respectively.

 

Information on the APOA-DePUY Spine Traveling Fellowship

  1. The countries to be visited are provisionally Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and India. The fellows will form two groups of 4 each; each group will travel to three or four countries. The composition and order of countries to be visited will be informed to successful applicants.

  2. The duration of the Fellowship will be three weeks, commencing on Sunday 18 May 2008 and ending on Saturday 7 June 2008. All selected fellows must complete the entire duration of the fellowship and they must stay together in their assigned group for the duration of the fellowship.

  3. Both groups will end the Fellowship attending the 7th Triennial Combined Meeting of the Spine and Paediatric Orthopaedic Sections of the APOA in Jeju, Korea from 4 to 7 June 2008.

 

 

For more information, please contact:

APOA Secretariat
12 Aljunied Road
#05-02 SCN Center
Singapore 389801
Email: apoa@orient-explorer.com