The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh disburses several travelling fellowships each year, both as sole funders and in partnership with outstanding organisations and donors. The College is proud to have supported our Members and Fellows in developing new skills from world-renowned experts, experiencing diverse surgical environments, and deepening their professional knowledge through educational visits.
Find our current portfolio below.
Please direct enquiries to awards@rcsed.ac.uk.
Submit Your Applications
Please apply online through the RCSEd Grant Platform unless otherwise specified.
Rahima Dawood Travelling Fellowship
COSECSA Nomination
The College is proud to support COSECSA in the administration of the Rahima Dawood Travelling Fellowship. The awardee will travel to countries of COSECSA to lecture and teach in their speciality area.
The selection of this awardee is conducted through COSECSA.
Ethicon Foundation Fund Travel Grant
The Ethicon Foundation Fund Travel Grant provides a contribution of up to £1000 towards international travel costs to further enhance a speciality skill or experience which is not available in the applicant’s own region. The fellowship should take place over a six week to 12-month period.
Applications are welcome from Members and Fellows in training grade appointments from the UK and abroad. LEDs and SAS doctors are not eligible to apply.
Applications are currently open | Deadline 12 January 2025
Tuanku Muhriz Fellowship in Rural Surgery
The Tuanku Muhriz Fellowship in rural surgery aims to provide one awardee with the opportunity to gain further experience and training in rural surgery in Malaysia.
Applications should either be:
- Surgeons who are Higher Surgical Trainees who have not yet attained Consultant grade.
- Trainee General Surgeons, around the time of their appointment to a Consultant post, to enable them to study in centres with particular expertise relating to the rural surgery;
- Surgeons making short visits to learn new surgical techniques, or to work in centres developing a rural surgery service.
All applications must be based, or have trained, in the UK.
Applications are currently open | Deadline 15 January 2025
Saleem Khwaja Memorial Fellowship in Peadiatric Surgery
In recognition of Professor Saleem Khwaja’s remarkable life, working in the UK, Africa and Middle East as a paediatric surgeon, RCSEd is proud to support the Saleem Khwaja Memorial Fellowship. Professor Khwaja contributed widely to the specialties’ knowledge on neonatal surgery and paediatric surgery in the tropics and had a passion for teaching the next generation of paediatric surgeons.
As such, the Saleem Khwaja Memorial Fellowship will provide funding of up to £5000, for one Higher Surgical Trainee or Junior Consultant (up to two years post appointment) to travel abroad to gain further education or training, or to offer charitable service to an international centre.
Applications are currently open | Deadline 27 March 2025