The International Travelling Fellowship
The winning teams, which consist of a consultant and a trainee, are awarded funds to carry out philanthropic international activity. Each team visits their country of choice twice, to ensure their project delivers the maximum benefit of developing clinical radiology or clinical oncology in that area. Past recipients of the award have had fantastic feedback from their host organisations and have experienced significant benefits themselves in terms of teaching experience, learning experience and making new connections with international peers.
History of the award
The International Travelling Fellowship was created in 2017 by combining the Cochrane Shanks Jalil Travelling Fellowship and the Sir Howard Middlemiss Travelling Fellowship awards. Previous awards have also included the RCR Prafulla Kumar Ganguli Professorship. Past awardees visited Ghana, Sri Lanka and India.
Funding
Up to £11,000. Each visit per year will receive up to £5,500.
Eligibility
It is open to Fellows of the RCR who hold a consultant post in the UK, and to trainees in a UK approved training scheme. All applicants must be in good standing with the College.
Applications
Applications for the 2023-25 International Travelling Fellowship are now closed.
Criteria
- Must include both a consultant and trainee
- Must include two visits to the same institutions/host hospitals over the two year period – to ensure maximum benefit and to establish a link with the respective center
- Both awardees must be in good standing with the College
- Both awardees must currently practise in the UK
- £5,500 will be award to each visit; the sum represents the monies awarded per year and per speciality over a course of two years
- The awardee must promote the award afterwards and submitted a structured report within eight weeks of each visit and lecture for the College website within 12 weeks of the final visit.
FAQs
The RCR International Travelling Fellowship is a new award formed from the combination of the funds from the Cochrane Shanks Jalil Travelling Fellowship and the Sir Middlemiss Travelling Fellowship. The award is looked after by the RCR’s Global Outreach Forum, which co-ordinates global philanthropic activity across the College across both faculties. The RCR International Travelling Fellowship can only be awarded to one team from each faculty, consisting of a consultant and a trainee. Each award will consist of two visits over the course of two years to ensure maximum benefit to the country in question.
Applications are open to Fellows and members of the RCR who are in good standing with the College. The award has two streams – one for clinical oncology and one for clinical radiology. The International Travelling Fellowship will be awarded to one team from each faculty, consisting of a consultant and a trainee. Fellows must hold a consultant post in the UK within the NHS and trainees must be in a UK approved training scheme. For trainees, application should be made before CCT, even if CCT will be achieved during the period of the award.
If you are receiving regular electronic and print communication from the College, you are likely to be in good standing. If you are unsure of your membership status please contact our Membership Operations Team at membership@rcr.ac.uk
The RCR International Travelling Fellowship will provide each team from each stream (CO and CR) with £11,000. Each team will receive £5,500 for each visit. This is to ensure the maximum benefit to the country in question over the course of two years.
Yes. You can still apply and your application will not be marked down. We understand that building and maintaining a sustainable relation with partners in middle and income countries develops over time.
That depends on a variety of things. Ideally we would like this award to represent an opportunity to develop a new project with an institution(s)/hospital(s) that you have either approached/worked with in the past or that would represent an opportunity for a new partnership. If you would like to fund an ongoing project that meets the application criteria, we recommend you email us first at global@rcr.ac.uk for more information.
The first visit should ideally occur within 12 months from when you are successfully awarded the International Travelling Fellowship and the second visit should take place within two years of that. Timing of disbursement of money awarded is determined by the start date of the Fellowship and the College’s fiscal year.
The aim of the Travelling Fellowship is to provide teaching and support to a low and middle income country in clinical radiology and clinical oncology, in order to develop a sustainable impact to the host institution(s)/hospital(s). Given this, there aren’t any specific requirements for the duration of each trip, however, the Global Outreach Forum suggests that ideally it would be a minimum of seven days per visit.
You are expected to undertake two visits to a low and middle income country throughout a period of two years. After the first trip has been completed and again at the end of your travel, you are expected to submit a short structured report accompanied by photos and/or short videos to global@rcr.ac.uk within eight weeks of travel. A lecture for the RCR website must also be submitted within 12 weeks of the final visit and promotion of the award among peers is also expected of successful applicants.
No. We require one completed application per team, including all the supporting documentation – one CV and two reference letters per applicant, along with one confirmation letter from the host institution(s)/hospital(s).
Whether you are applying as a trainee or a consultant, we ask that you attach along with your application a reference letter from your mentor/manager.
No, the application letter and all supporting documents must be emailed together, either as one document or as separate attachments.
Please email your completed application to the Global Outreach Forum administrator at global@rcr.ac.uk. All applications must contain:
- A completed application form
- Two references for each applicant from Fellows in clinical practice
- A short CV per applicant (maximum of four A4 pages), including university details
- Confirmation from the host institution(s)/hospital that your visit has been approved
Applications that are incomplete will not be accepted.
Your application will be assessed by a panel group made up of clinical practitioners from both specialties with a breadth of experience and knowledge in teaching and working in low and middle income countries. The final decision will be made by the Global Outreach Foum.
The panellists will be looking for application forms that meet the entry and application criteria for the award. It is important to make sure that your application closely follows the criteria and gives specific details on how each point will be met:
- Relevance to career development in radiology or oncology
- Benefit to host institution/hospital
- Value to the NHS
- Value to personal development
- Planning and presentation
- References
Applications should also be easy to read with good grammar and free from spelling errors.
Applicants who have been successful will be emailed to notify them. We will also email all unsuccessful applicants.
Please contact global@rcr.ac.uk for any other questions.
List of successful applicants
The 2023 International Travelling Fellowship has been awarded to:
Clinical radiology
Winners: Dr Basavaraj Chari and Dr Mark Kong
Project: Adult and paediatric trauma and musculoskeletal training to the radiologists and radiology residents, including hands on imaging training
Winners: Dr Catherine McCarthy and Dr Oliver Czarnecki
Project: Musculoskeletal imaging for sub-Saharan Africa from rural clinics to university level radiology training schemes: Emphasis on ultrasound, trauma, bone and soft tissue tumours.
The 2020 International Travelling Fellowship has been awarded to:
Clinical radiology
Winners: Dr Radhesh Lalam and Dr Danoob Dalili
Project: Emergency, Trauma and Spine Radiology
Clinical oncology
Winners: Dr Deepak Subedi and Dr Rishikesan Ramaesh
Project: Oncological Imaging – Past, Present and Future, a Joint RCR International Travelling Fellowship – Bir Hospital Project
The 2019 International Travelling Fellowship has been awarded to:
Clinical radiology
Winners: Dr Andrew Lowe of Taunton and Dr Helen O'Brien of Bristol
Project: A collaboration between the RCR and Myanmar Radiological Society (MRS) to enhance CT and MRI competencies for radiologists based in Myanmar & to enable their capability for self-directed teaching
Clinical oncology
Winners: Dr Katie Wakeham of Brighton and Dr Olivia Fraser of Plymouth
Project: Lusaka Link: clinical training course
The 2017 International Travelling Fellowship has been awarded to:
Clinical radiology
Winners: Dr Ramy Mansour and Dr Ahmed Elzein of Oxford
Project: Provide MSK radiology education and training to Radiology Consultants and Trainees in the University of Alexandria. Introduction to MSK radiology module into postgraduate training curriculum
Clinical oncology
Winners: Dr Sundus Yahya and Dr Louise Price of Birmingham
Project: Collaborative project with Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH&RC) in Lahore, Pakistan to develop latest Radiotherapy techniques and support the clinical oncology training programme, delivery of inaugural FRCR preparatory course in the country
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