What are fellowships?
Fellowships are undertaken by trained anaesthesia providers who want to develop their careers by specialising or sub-specialising. The WFSA offers its Fellowships to anaesthesiologist from low and middle-income countries to increase their skillset and become leaders for anaesthesia once they return to their home countries.
To reduce the mortality rates of preventable deaths related to unsafe anaesthesia and surgical practices, there is an urgent need to meet the downfall of skilled anaesthesia providers in lower-income countries. WFSA’s Global Fellowship Programme provides low-cost, high-quality training to anaesthesiologists across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.
Since its inception in 1996, our flagship programme has provided over 400 fellows from 62 countries the opportunity to be mentored across 8 anaesthesia specialities and sub-specialities.
As highlighted by returning Fellows, the WFSA fellowships have a lasting impact both on the skills and professional development of the individuals but also their colleagues and patients back home. Find out more about this impact from Fellowship testimonies.
Fellowship applications
Fellowships open to applications on a rolling case by case basis.
Click here for fellowships currently open for applications.
A suitable applicant should fit the following criteria:
- Must be a qualified physician and fully trained in anaesthesia as per the regulations of your home country.
- Must be supported in their application by their own National Society of Anaesthesia
- Must be supported in their application by Chief of their home department of anaesthesia
- Must be returning to home country to a recognized post
- Must be under 40 years of age
- Should preferably be working in a teaching hospital
- The fellowships are intended mainly for young anaesthesiologists from the geographical region near where the training is based.
Support fund a fellow
The fellowship programme is part-funded by generous individual donations through the Fund a Fellowship scheme. Find out more about how you can Fund a Fellow and strengthen global anaesthesia worldwide.
Fellowships
| ASIA | |||||
| Country | Specialty | Hospital/ City (Click link for Fellowship info) | Programme Head | Positions/yr | Duration |
| India | Intensive Care Medicine | Christian Medical College, Vellore | Dr Subramani Kandasamy | 2 | 1 year |
| India | Paediatric Anaesthesia (supported by SPANZA) | Christian Medical College, Vellore | Dr Ekta Rai | 2 | 6 months |
| India | Regional Anaesthesia | Ganga Medical Centre and Hospital, Coimbatore | Dr Balavenkat Subramanian | 4 | 6 months |
| India | Pain Management | Virinchi Hospitals, Hyderabad | Dr Muralidhar Joshi | 2 | 6 months |
| India | Paediatric Anaesthesia | Children’s Anaesthesia Services, Mumbai | Dr Vrushali Ponde | 1 | 6 months |
| India | Cardiac Anaesthesia | Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Bangalore | Dr Muralidhar Kanchi | 2 | 1 year |
| India | Thoracic Anaesthesia | Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi | Prof Jayashree Sood | 2 | 6 months |
| Thailand | General Anaesthesia | Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok | Associate Professor Orawan Pongraweewan | 4 | 1 year |
| Thailand | Pain Management (supported by IASP) | Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University | Asst. Prof Nantthasorn Zinboonyahgoon | 2 | 1 year |
| AFRICA | |||||
| Country | Specialty | Hospital/ City (Click link for Fellowship info) | Programme Head | Positions/yr | Duration |
| Ghana | Regional Anaesthesia | Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Kumasi | Dr Antwi-Kusi | 1 – 2 | 3 months |
| Kenya | Paediatric Anaesthesia (supported by ImPACT Africa, and SPA ) | University of Nairobi, Nairobi | Dr Mark Gacii | 1-3 | 12 months |
| Morocco | Obstetric Anaesthesia | Mother and Child Hospital, Mohammed VI University Hospital, Marrakesh | Dr Ahmed El Adib | 2 | 6 months |
| Morocco | Paediatric Anaesthesia | Mother and Child Hospital, Mohammed VI University Hospital, Marakesh | Dr Yousaf Mouaffak | 2 | 6 months |
| Nigeria | Obstetric Anaesthesia | Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria/Port Harcourt | Dr Elizbeth Ogboli-Nwasor | 2 | 6 months |
| LATIN AMERICA | |||||
| Country | Specialty | Hospital/ City (Click link for Fellowship info) | Programme Head | Positions/yr | Duration |
| Argentina | Pain Management (supported by CLASA) | Centro de Atencion Integral del Dolor, Buenos Aires | Dr Erica Bernich | 2 | 2 months |
| Brazil | Pain Management (supported by CLASA) | Universidad Estatal de Sao Paulo, Botucatu | Dr Guilherme Moreira de Barros | 1 – 2 | 2 months |
| Brazil | Regional Anaesthesia (supported by CLASA) | Hospital Jose Frotta, Fortaleza | Dr Danielle Dumaresq | 2 | 2 months |
| Chile | Paediatric Anaesthesia | The Luis Calvo Mackenna Hospital, Santiago | Dr Silvana Cavallieri | 2 | 6 months |
| Colombia | Obstetric Anaesthesia (supported by Colombian Society, SCARE) | Clinica Universitaria Bolivariana, Medellin | Dr Mauricio Vasco | 1 – 2 | 3 months |
| Mexico | Paediatric Anaesthesia | Hospital Infantil de Mexico Federico Gomez | Dr Victor Edmundo Fuentes Garcia | 2 | 3 months |
| NORTH AMERICA | |||||
| Country | Specialty | Hospital/ City (Click link for Fellowship info) | Programme Head | Positions/yr | Duration |
| USA | Research Fellowship | Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Centre | Dr Sergio Bergese | 2 | 1 year |
| USA | Research Fellowship | UCSF and San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) | Dr Maytinee Lilaonitkul | 1 year |
| EUROPE | |||||
| Country | Specialty | Hospital/ City (Click link for Fellowship info) | Programme Head | Positions/yr | Duration |
| Serbia | Paediatric Anaesthesia | University Children’s Hospital, and Institute for Health Protection of Mother and Child of Serbia, Belgrade | Dr Dusica Simic | 2 | 3 months |