Military Fellowships
Fellowships can apply the finishing touches to a chosen sub-specialty career. Through many years of military T&O, trainees have completed such fellowships. Networks of available opportunities can be found below.
Mike McErlain Travelling Fellowship
The Mike McErlain Travelling Fellowship in memory of Lt Col Mike McErlain who tragically passed away in 2013. This fellowship is up to a value of £2000 to contribute towards travel and subsistence to an international centre. This fellowship is open to all serving members of the Society, including reservists.
Applications should be submitted directly to the DCA. Applications are now open and will close on Friday 25th April 2025, with the successful fellow announced at CSOS 2025.
Please see “Fellowship Information” for further information
Future Leaders Programme
boa - Future leaders programme
The FLP, which has evolved from the BOA Clinical Leaders Programme (CLP), aims to create an alumnus of leaders with the ability to improve the delivery of clinical care and to influence positive change within the profession by equipping them with the advanced leadership skills necessary to excel. The programme will:
- Support at least 30 T&O surgeons (post-CCT, SAS or in the first years of consultancy).
- Be structured around four core domains: personal leadership, technical leadership, relational leadership and contextual leadership.
-Include four 2-day forums over the 12-month period, supplemented by self-directed Action Learning Sets.Participants will undertake a Quality Improvement Project, as a vehicle to develop these leadership skills (a project sponsor will be required to support the fellows through their QI Project). The first module is planned for October 2025 with pre-course preparation for fellows available in August/September 2025. The face-to-face aspects of this programme (residential forums) will be under review throughout the year to gauge the feasibility of hosting the modules in this way, and it may be required that we need to be flexible to other modes of delivery (virtual, face-to-face or a mixture of both). More information can be found on the BOA website at www.boa.ac.uk/flp
The cost of the programme is £3,960 (including VAT) per fellow. Invoices will be issued once a successful fellow is confirmed, and all invoices must be settled before the participants will be included in the pre-course preparation. Details on the how to apply for the FLP are contained on the BOA website as posted above.
For any military applicants that are successful in applying for the FLP, then a CSOS funding application should be submitted with a one page "Why Me?" statement describing why you are the right candidate for the programme, want you want to achieve by undertaking the programme and how you, the cadre and Defence will gain from you doing it.
CSOS is willing to fund 50% of the programme cost (not T&S) for ONE successful applicant who will be determined after a panel review of any applications made that have been accepted by the BOA. If applications are limited and/or of inadequate quality, then no funding award will be made that year.
Funding applications should be made to secretary@csos.org.uk by 30 April 2025.
