Global Health Education Programme (GHEP): Travel Bursaries

We set up these Travel Bursaries to foster collaboration between UK doctors and those overseas. We work closely with our health partners and try to complement their efforts. Our goals are to improve ENT education globally, and to allow UK professionals to benefit from their overseas colleagues’ expertise.

ExcellENT awards GHEP Travel Bursaries to appropriately qualified professionals from the ENT Departments at our link institutions, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Tanzania, and The Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana.

GHEP Travel Bursary Host Institutions

Visiting doctors can be hosted at the following institutions. Doctors may choose the site that best reflects their professional development needs:

MANCHESTER HEAD AND NECK CENTRE, UK

Head and Neck Oncological Surgery including Transoral Laser Microsurgery, Craniofacial Surgery and Advanced Skin Cancer Surgery
Reconstructive and Microvascular Surgery
Advanced Rhiniology and Anterior Skull Base Surgery
Otology, Lateral Skull Base Surgery, and Middle Ear and Cochlear Implantology
General Adult ENT

Liverpool Head and Neck Centre, UK

Head and Neck Oncological Surgery
Reconstructive Surgery
Anterior Skull Base Surgery
Advanced Rhinology
Lateral Skull Base Surgery
Advanced Otology
General Adult ENT

Practicalities

Visiting doctors are hosted in the UK for two to three weeks. Accommodation is provided at or near the host institution. GHEP Coordinators will be on-hand to host and guide visiting doctors throughout their time in the UK.

There are two types of Bursary: one for Residents or Registrars in the central part of their training; and one for Chief Residents, Fellows and Consultants who are seeking advanced subspecialist training. Bursary recipients will be provided with a suggested timetable and will be welcomed by surgeons at their host unit. Observer status will be organised before arrival.

The GHEP Bursary will provide up to GBP 1200 to cover flights and accommodation. If possible, the Bursary will also fund one place on a surgical craft course, such as a temporal bone course. This is subject to course availability, timing and total cost. After the conclusion of their visit, doctors will be invited to provide a report on their time in Liverpool.

Travel Bursaries are not awarded every year, but rather when there is an opportunity to support our overseas colleagues in consultation with our Advisory Board.

Travel Bursary Recipients

Dr Kenneth Mlay, KCMC, Tanzania
– Resident’s Bursary visiting the Liverpool Head and Neck Centre, 2019

Dr Kenneth Baidoo, Korle-Bu, Ghana
– Advanced Subspecialty Training Bursary visiting the Liverpool Head and Neck Centre, 2019