Global Surgery Fellowship
The Creighton University Department of Surgery created a Global Surgery Fellowship (GSF) in 2017. “In Creighton’s Jesuit, Catholic tradition, to improve the human condition and transform learners into exceptional physicians who are leaders in advancing medicine, health and well-being”, and following the Catholic Social Teaching of “the preferential option for the poor”. The fellowship is meant to help meet the critical surgical health care needs of low-income countries and rural communities in our country.
The fellowship is one year with the first 6 months spent in Omaha, Nebraska and the last 6 months internationally at a district hospital in a low-income country. Currently we are partnering with University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. A quality improvement project at the international site is also required to be completed by the fellow, directed by our international partners.
The fellowship provides significant obstetrical, orthopedic, urologic and ENT surgical experience as the operating surgeon in Omaha. In addition, adult and pediatric anesthesia, ultrasound, and burn rotations are available. There is a week-long cadaver lab with neurosurgery, plastics and other procedures. The Omaha rotations are altered in length and inclusion based on the fellows’ prior subspecialty exposure and career pathway.
The fellow is paid a PGY 6 salary and benefits including travel expenses to and from the low-income country. In addition, the required quality improvement project at the international site has a $5000 budget.
Prerequisites:
- Applicants must have finished an U.S. ACGME approved surgical residency
- Board certified, or if within 1 year of residency completion, be qualified to take the American Board of Surgery QE/CE examinations.
How To apply:
If interested in applying, please provide the following documents to the fellowship manager, Rebecca Lair; RebeccaLair@creighton.edu.
- Documentation of an average ABSITE score > the 50th percentile
- A letter of reference from the applicant’s surgery department chairman
- A letter of reference from the applicant’s program director
- A personal statement about “Are you an Albert Schweitzer, do you want to try to be an Albert Schweitzer, or do you want to be a part time Albert Schweitzer?
- A Current CV
Contact Information:
Please feel free to reach out with any questions to the fellowship director, Dr. Gray; 1-402-516-2880.
