This is the collaborative programme between CANECSA and Smile Train that aims at fostering safety in patients through anaesthesia and critical care medicine education training and research..

SCHOLARSHIP PURPOSE

Smile Train and the Fellow of College of Anaesthesiologists (FCA) hereafter referred to as ‘Participants’ who wish to dedicate themselves to a full career as Anaesthesiologists in Africa; and have agreed to collaborate in a programme to provide Smile Train scholarships for selected CANECSA trainees wishing to study Anaesthesia and Critical Care in Africa.

SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME AIMS

The aims of the programme are:

• To attract, select and support anaesthesiologists at the Fellowship of the College of Anaesthesiologists (FCA) level who wish to dedicate themselves to a full career as Anaesthesia and critical care physicians in Africa.
• To offer training in hospitals based in CANECSA countries for Anaesthesiologists who demonstrate the greatest potential to become leaders and decision-makers in Anaesthesiology and Critical
  Care.

ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES

The countries whose nationals are eligible for these awards are all CANECSA countries with priority given to trainees from countries without significant Smile Train presence i.e. Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The scholarships will be awarded on merit to trainees from the countries mentioned and taking into
consideration that it is necessary to consider regional balance, representation and equity