Scholarships and Fellowships
IVUmed Traveling Resident Scholarship
The IVUmed Traveling Resident Scholar Program affords residents the opportunity to experience urology in a developing world setting. American residents travel with Board-certified urologists (or equivalent) to partner hospitals abroad to exchange ideas with their hosts and perform procedures such as open stone surgery, benign prostate surgery, hypospadias repair and incontinence procedures.
Residents or fellows PGY-3 and above are invited to submit the necessary application materials to the IVUmed Program Manager. The application deadline for travel between July 2012 and June 2013 is February 1, 2012. For questions or more information, please contact Mary Fredley at mary.fredley@ivumed.org.
Fellowships
University of Utah/IVUmed Global Health Fellowship in Urology
The University of Utah and IVUmed are pleased to announce the new Fellowship in Global Urology. This fellowship is offered through the University of Utah Center for Global Surgery. Fellows can earn an MPH, MBA or MS in Engineering during the fellowship at the University of Utah while benefitting from IVUmed's wide experience in academic collaboration with 65 American urology training programs and urological training in more than 20 countries. Eligibility: American trained, board eligible urologists.
For more information, please contact Catherine deVries, MD at:
Catherine.deVries@hsc.utah.edu
Length of Training: 1-2 years. If pursuing an MPH, MBA or MS, 2 years is required.
Focus: Global Health. The program emphasizes Global Health looking at Public Health (MPH), business systems affecting service delivery including personnel, devices and pharmaceuticals for urological care (MBA), or design and devices (MSEngineering).
Supervision: Department of Surgery, Division of Urology. Fellowship Program Director, Catherine deVries, M.D. Associate Program Director, Andrew Southwick, M.D.
Salary and Benefits: Salary is earned by the fellow, who will be a board eligible urologist with an appointment as a Clinical Instructor at approximately .5 FTE.
$80-85,000 per year with retirement, medical, disability insurance
$13,000 support for travel + Graduate program tuition and fees
$2,000 computer/software allowance
$5,000 moving expenses
In addition to the renowned Traveling Resident Scholar Program, IVUmed offers a unique opportunity for extended international surgical experience. The IVUmed Fellowship Program supports physicians interested in spending several months working and collaborating in developing world healthcare settings. Fellows fundraise for their experience and work with IVUmed on designing a curriculum. IVUmed’s first fellow, Dr. Kristin Chrouser, spent one year in Africa, Asia and Latin America honing her skills, providing service and training, and building lasting professional relationships.
Other IVUmed Scholarships
Dr. Pieter A. deVries Pediatric Surgery Scholarship
Dr. Joseph W. Segura Endourology Scholarship
These scholarships are offered to our partners abroad for a visit to the United States as a capstone experience in their training process. This opportunity helps reinforce the years of surgical education our partners recieve in their own countries.