international council of ophthalmology offers ICO-Fred Hollows Foundation One-Year Subspecialty Fellowship for Young ophthalmology applicants from low resource countries who are interested to be financially supported by the Fred Hollows Foundation, and want to take part in one-year training can apply.

Organization: international council of ophthalmology

Duration: one year

Number: Three Fellowships

Deadline: 30 September 2021

Prize: $24000

The prize will cover:

• Living expenses
• Traveling cost
• Other professional costs

Eligibilities:

Applicants should meet the following requirements:

• Be from low-income countries.
• Have completed the residency training before applying for the fellowship
• Applicant’s age must be under 40 years
• The candidate must have passed successfully the ophthalmology special exam.
• applicants must return back to their home country after completion of the fellowship
•  have received an acceptance letter from an ophthalmology subspecialty fellowship advanced training center.
• A head of a public service hospital or the Ophthalmology teaching institutions should recommend the candidate
• Have the fluency in the language of the fellowship trianing center.
• must be able to pass one or more than one ICO exam which will be checked during the application evaluation.
• applicants who are from countries with ophthalmologic societies will be preferred
• those applicants whose application rejected, can reapply.

Required documents:

• Passport scanned copy
• Recommendation letter from the current chair’s recommendation and residency (DOC file, 80 KB)
• Previous recommendation letter from applicant’s supervisor of Chair’s (DOC file, 80 KB)
• Acceptance letter must be filled by the host university. (DOC, 80KB)
• Letter of confirmation for completion of ophthalmology residency.
• Confirmation letter of Post –Fellowship Position from any teaching institution or public service hospital
• Letter of recommendation must be filled by ophthalmology head at a teaching institute or public hospital based on the applicant’s surgery experience from the home country.

Note: the uploaded files must be in (jpg, pdf, doc, docx, and png, the file’s size must not be more than 20MB,), do not attach your file in zip.

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The ICO-National Eye Health Institute One Year Fellowship in Ocular Genetics

How to apply:

Fill the  online application form

If applicants any questions, they can have a glance to Frequently asked question , for further information they can contact to fellowship@icoph.org

Fellowship official link