UAA Young Urologist Fellowship for UAA Congress 2018

The UAA invites applications for the UAA Young Urologist Fellowship for 2018. These grants aim to provide young urologists from our member associations an opportunity to attend the UAA Congress at Kyoto, Japan from 17-21 April, 2018and participate in the educational activities of the UAA and build a network of qualified urology professionals within Asia.

Additionally, in 2018, the fellowships will enable interaction with several international renownedguest faculty from the European Association of Urology (EAU) in the UAA-EAU Young Urologists’ Session and UAA will also provide the first-year membership of the EAU to the fellows.

Award:

  1. Discounted registration for the UAA Congress 2018 (Yen 6000 only)
  2. One year membership of the European Association of Urology (EAU) with its attendant benefits of:
  3. Discounted registration for the EAU congress
  4. Subscription to the European Urology Journal and all educational resources of EAU

Eligibility:

  1. Qualified urologists, within 10 years of receiving their urology degree
  2. Member of their national/regional urology association
  3. Fluent in English
  4. Active and outgoing personality
  5. Must not have received this fellowship program in the past

Obligations:

  1. During the UAA Congressin Kyoto, the awardees will attend the UAA-EAU Young Urologists’ session and the Main Congress of the 16th UAA Congress 2018
  2. Attendance of these activities is mandatory on both days to receive the award, and will receive a certificate from both UAA and EAU societies.
  3. Selected fellows will be invited to present and discuss interesting cases they learned in this session
  4. The selected awardees will be expected to become Individual Members of UAA (Please complete attached Membership Form) and serve as resource persons for future activities of the UAA and the Youth Section.

Selection process:

  1. Applicants must fill the application form, attach a colored head-shotphotograph in jpeg formatandUAA membership form, and submit this to the NATIONAL/REGIONAL UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.We DO NOT accept direct applications from the applicants.
  2. The national/regional urological association will check eligibility of the applicantsand rank the applications in their order of merit through their own internal process.
  3. The national/regional urological association will send all applications that fulfill the eligibility criteria, along with their internal ranks to the UAA secretariat by 31st December, 2017.
  4. Three applicants will be selected from each member association. Vacant slots, if any, may be given to extra applicants from other member associations.
  5. The selection panel reserves the rights to accept or reject any application at its discretion.

Sincerely,

Allen Chiu
General Secretary, UAA / Shin Egawa
Director, Asian School of Urology / Rajeev Kumar
Chair, UAA-Youth Section

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Please return this form in WORD format only
UAA Young Urologist Fellowship 2018
Last Name
First Name
Academic position and Institution
Mailing Address including City
Country
Email
Urology degree, year
Do you train residents?
National/regional Urology Association and membership number:

Education

Degree / Year Joined / Year Finished / Institution

Employment

Position / Institution / Year Joined / Year Finished

Awards/Honors/Fellowships

Publications in Pubmed® indexed journals (Please give full citation and underline your name)

Conferences/workshops attended

Please write a minimum500 word essay on why you wish to avail of this fellowship.

(This is mandatory for qualification)


For endorsement by the National/Regional Urological Association

Please check the following before forwarding this application:

Criteria / Response
Rank among all applicants from your association(Give rank)
Applicant received Urology degree after 2007 (Yes/No)
Applicant is a FULL member of your urological association(Yes/No)
Applicant is fluent in English (Yes/No)
Applicant has not availed of this fellowship before (Yes/No)
Photograph (JPEG) attached or not (Yes/No)
UAA individual membership form attached or not (Yes/No)

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Name of President/Secretary approving the application

Please submit ALL eligible applications received by you as email attachment byDecember 31, 2017to

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