Overview
Clinical service, global-health research and teaching prepare anesthesiologists for work in settings with limited resources, with an optional public-health degree.
The programme
- Focus
- Global health equity
- Training type
- Combined Fellowship
- Duration
- 1–2 years; the two-year option can include an MPH
- Start
- Not stated on official page
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- Non-ACGME, as listed in the departmental fellowship index.
- Department
- Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Completed approved internship and ACGME-accredited anesthesiology residency before starting; board eligible or board certified.
- International applicants
- Institutional GME requirement: holders of a foreign medical degree need a valid ECFMG certificate; no programme-specific policy stated
- Visa support
- Institution policyJ-1 via ECFMG; H-1B considered case by case by programme with GME; no new O-1 applications supported
- Licence requirement
- Institution policyHouse staff train under a Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners licence exemption obtained by GME; full Tennessee licence needed for moonlighting and for non-ACGME clinical fellows with a secondary faculty appointment
How to apply
- Deadline
- Not stated on official page
- Application method
- Use the downloadable programme application; contact the programme administrator.
Funding
- Funding
- Salary equivalent to Clinical Instructor rank over 12 months; relocation allowance $2,000 single/$3,000 family; CME fund; supported by the Department of Anesthesiology and research funding