Commonwealth Medical Fellowships in UK 2019

Commonwealth Medical Fellowships are for mid-career medical staff from low and middle-income countries, to enhance their clinical skills.

Funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Commonwealth Medical Fellowships enable talented and motivated individuals to gain the knowledge and skills required for sustainable development.

Purpose: To provide mid -career medics with the opportunity to enhance their clinical skills, and to have catalytic effects on their workplaces.

Intended beneficiaries:  Mid-career medics working in teaching hospitals affiliated to universities in low and middle-income Commonwealth countries.

These fellowships are offered under one of the CSC’s six themes:

  1. Science and technology for development
  2. Strengthening health systems and capacity
  3. Promoting global prosperity
  4. Strengthening global peace, security and governance
  5. Strengthening resilience and response to crises
  6. Access, inclusion and opportunity

The fellowships will develop the clinical skills that will improve health provision or outcomes for disadvantaged groups in low and middle-income countries. It is expected that the beneficiary will disseminate the skills and knowledge gained on return home.

Medical Fellowships are intended to provide access to specific skills/expertise that is not easily obtained in the applicant’s home country. Applications clearly demonstrating this will be looked upon favorably.

Awards are tenable for a 4-6 month period at any approved UK university hospital.

WORTH

Each fellowship provides:

  • Approved airfare from the applicant’s home country to the UK and return at the end of his/her award (the CSC will not reimburse the cost of fares for dependents, nor usually the cost of journeys made before the award is finally confirmed)
  • Research support grant, payable to the host university hospital
  • Stipend (living allowance) at the rate of £1,656 per month, or £2,055 per month for those at university hospitals in the London metropolitan area (rates quoted at 2018-2019 levels)
  • Reimbursement of the fee for a single English language test and the fee for General Medical Council (GMC) registration
  • Warm clothing allowance
  • Study travel grant towards the costs of approved travel within the UK
  • If the applicant is widowed, divorced, or a single parent, child allowance of £466 per month for the first child, and £114 per month for the second and third child under the age of 16, if he/she are accompanied by his/her children and they are living with them at the same address in the UK

ELIGIBILITY

To apply for these fellowships, the applicant must:

  • Be a citizen of or have been granted refugee status by an eligible Commonwealth country, or be a British Protected Person
  • Be permanently resident in an eligible Commonwealth country
  • Have an academic appointment in an eligible Commonwealth country at one of the medical schools by the World Directory of Medical Schools employed by a hospital affiliated to the Medical School where you have the academic appointment
  • Be available to start the fellowship in the UK in January 2020
  • Have qualified as a doctor before 1 October 2004
  • Have qualified at a medical school recognised by the World Directory of Medical Schools
  • Have met the English language requirements of the General Medical Council (GMC) within 2 months of being notified that you have been provisionally selected for an award.
  • The selected applicant will be expected to participate in clinical practice during the fellowship, and to register with the General Medical Council (GMC). If his/her proposed programme does not require this registration, his/her application will be considered ineligible.

DEADLINE:  May 13, 2019

To apply and for more information visit here

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