Anesthesia department Resident Samrawit Goshu, M.D. is one of eight recipients of the 2015-16 Resident International Anesthesia Scholarship.
The GHO committee proposed to the ASA Board of Directors that the society support a Resident International Anesthesia Scholarship program (modeled on the SEA-HVO fellowship program) to send U.S. anesthesiology residents to Ethiopia for a month’s rotation. Although the timeline was short, the proposal was sent to the board and ultimately voted on and approved at the ASA 2014 annual meeting. Testimony from GHO committee members and other interested ASA members was crucial for the acceptance of the proposal. ASA approved funding for six residents to start 2015-16. Drs. Mets and Drum each donated prize award money they had received from the SEA and Medicalmissions.org International, respectively, toward supporting a further two residents for this scholarship. Announcements for competitive application were placed in the ASA NEWSLETTER, on the ASA website and in the Society of Academic Anesthesiology Associations monthly newsletters. Interested residents were encouraged to apply for the program. Requirements included being at least a CA-2 resident at the time of the rotation as well as providing a resume, a letter of recommendation from the resident’s program director and a personal statement. The GHO committee established a subcommittee to review and score the applications. More than 55 applications were received. An evaluation tool was developed, applications scored and the winners ranked. A collaborative effort was made with the SEA HVO fellowship program so that residents who had applied to both programs were not awarded two scholarships.
The recipients of the 2015-16 Resident International Anesthesia Scholarships were:
Rachel Freschet, M.D. Virginia Mason Medical Center
Samrawit Goshu, M.D. Yale New Haven Hospital
Micah Hatch, M.D. University of Tennessee
Meerim Cindy Kim, M.D. Massachusetts General Hospital
the 2015-16 Resident International Anesthesia Scholarship.
Christina Stachur, M.D., M.P.H. Stanford University
Anna Swenson-Schalkwyk, M.D. Stanford University
Hermela Tezera, M.D. Indiana University
Chelsea Willie, M.D. University of North Carolina