Fellowships
There are numerous opportunities every year for trainees to apply for WOC Fellowships. The first option is for short term visits/ collaborative projects with LMIC partners and is jointly supported by BOTA and WOC-UK to the tune of £1000. To apply, contact the BOTA rep directly and check the website (applications typically open around September). Three winners will be announced at the BOTA conference in November each year.
We also have a fellowship for longer term visits and collaborations which can be applied for at any time of the year. This award is for £1500. It is open to trainees and non trainees including AHPs with an interest in Low Middle Income Country development and empowerment work. This year’s award is in honour of Mr Geoffrey Walker, an early member and long term advocate of WOC-UK. It replaces the historic Treloar Gauvain and Ginger Wilson fellowships
The Geoffrey Walker Fellowship
Geoffrey Walker was a pioneering member of WOC-UK and spent his life promoting orthopaedic development in LMICs. His legacy continues to date in a number of units across the world. He has made significant impacts on orthopaedic care in Bangladesh, Nepal, Nigeria and Ethiopia to name a few and is very fondly remembered in those places. He was a founding fellow of the College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa and an active member on the SICOT committee. He sadly passed away in August 2024 and we would like to remember him through this fellowship which his family and friends have kindly donated towards.
Please download application form for the Geoffrey Walker travel fellowships here:Â WOC Fellowship Application Form
Please send all applications to secretary@wocuk.org
The Gauvain Fellowship (closed)
Sir Henry Gauvain, M.D., MChir. Camb., F.R.C.S. Eng., was the the Medical Superintendent of Lord Mayor Treloar’s Hospital in Alton for more than 25 years. He was skilled surgeon and a keen proponent of the beneficial qualities of sunlight for healing. His name became synonymous with the pioneering work of the hospital with physically disabled children. When the orthopaedic hospital was closed by the government of the day in 1995, the people of Alton wished his memory to be upheld in the medical world by the award of this fellowship.
The Ginger Wilson Fellowship (closed)
Ginger Wilson was an inaugural founding member and signatory of WOC international and an outstanding Orthopaedic Surgeon of International regard. To commemorate the sad passing of Ginger and his wife Pat, WOC-UK have decided to instigate a discretionary financial award to help support British Orthopaedic Trainees who wish to spend some time during their training, working in developing countries.