Chennai, India (CU)_ Apollo Education UK, a subsidiary of the Apollo Hospitals group, inaugurated the Apollo International Clinical Fellowship Programme (ICFP), 2022, providing Indian physicians the option to pursue a master’s degree in surgery and medicine at Edge Hill University in the United Kingdom. According to a statement from the company, the initiative, taken in partnership with Global Training and Education Center (GTEC) at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Edge Hill University, UK, is one of the efforts of Apollo Education UK’s (AEUK) Global Workforce Development (GWD) program.
Doctors who have finished their MS/MD/DnB in India are eligible to participate in the three-year program that provides them with career specialty pathways. According to the statement, the selected physicians will undergo training in India at Apollo Hospitals during their first year and will work and study in NHS Hospitals in the United Kingdom during their second and third years.
According to the statement, in the preliminary year, students will get mentoring from top physicians at Apollo Hospitals, India, to ease their transition into NHS clinical practice. They would then be placed in a UK hospital for the following two or more years to finish their clinical training. According to the firm, the Apollo ICFP is one of the most recent efforts of the Apollo Knowledge umbrella, which is the Apollo Group’s skilling, training, education, and resourcing program.
Sivaramakrishnan Venkateswaran, CEO of Apollo Knowledge, explained the purpose of the program. He said, “This is part of our Global Workforce Development (GWD) initiative to enable and provide education, training and recruitment job opportunities across geographies for healthcare professionals so that they get trained and upskilled and add value to themselves and their own healthcare systems”.
According to Clare Austin, Pro Vice Chancellor, Dean of the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Medicine Professor at Edge Hill University, “This is an important opportunity for the Master of Surgery and Master of Medicine programmes to support the recruitment and training of international doctors as part of our long-standing learn, earn, return and excel scheme”. According to Professor Raj Murali, Clinical Director at Global Training and Education Center, “NHS is a wonderful institution to gain invaluable work experience from world-class mentors, and the doctors on the course will certainly benefit from their time with us.”
