2027 Emerging Global Leaders - OTA Women’s (EGLOW) Fellowship Application

Program Description
The International Committee provides up to two EGLOW Fellowships annually, thanks to the generous support of The Wyss Medical Foundation and contributions from OTA members.

Program Objectives
- Recognize the achievements of women orthopaedic surgeons who are emerging leaders in their resource-limited home countries.
- Provide educational opportunities that will enhance their practice of orthopaedic trauma and potentially raise the level of trauma care in their local communities.
- Offer mentorship, role modeling, and community for these surgeons within the field of orthopaedic trauma.
 
Fellowship Details
Two fellows will be selected each year from countries with limited resources (determined by the World Bank as low- and low-middle-income).

The International and Diversity Committees will review all applications and select the recipients.

Application requirements:
- Application
- CV 
- 2 letters of recommendation
- Personal statement written by the applicant
 

The fellowship includes:
- A 5-day observership at a North American trauma center;
- Travel expenses to the OTA annual meeting to include:
- Transportation from your home country to the OTA Annual Meeting
- All potential travel to the observership site within North America (if in a different city than the Annual Meeting)
- Hotel stays for the OTA Annual Meeting and the observership
- Small per diem
- Paid 2026 OTA Annual Meeting registration
- Paid one-year OTA membership
- Recognition at the International Reception
- Recognition at the Women in Orthopaedic Trauma Reception

All applicants must submit two letters of recommendation. At least one of the letters must be submitted by the applicant's training program director or an orthopaedic surgeon who has known the applicant for at least five years.

Below are guidelines for writing a comprehensive letter of recommendation.

Writers should include the following:

• Duration of time and description of how they have known the applicant professionally.
• Overview of the applicant's educational skills and capacity to learn new things.
• Information regarding the applicant's leadership qualities.
• Information regarding the applicant's potential to disseminate information obtained through the scholarship experience to their fellow colleagues.