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Howard Cooper Travelling Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Applications open 1 September - 31 October
The Howard Cooper Travelling Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is made annually to a visiting overseas trainee psychiatrist or psychiatrist from the Asia-Pacific region who wishes to gain experience in child and adolescent psychiatry in Australia or New Zealand.
The Fellowship is named in honour of the late Dr Howard Cooper, a former Chair of the RANZCP’s Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (FCAP).
Form of award
The Fellowship includes:
- A$2500
- complimentary registration to the Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Conference or the RANZCP Annual Congress
- an invitation to present at either the Faculty conference or RANZCP Annual Congress
- a beautifully framed award certificate.
Eligibility criteria
- Applicants must be a visiting overseas trainee psychiatrist or psychiatrist from the Asia-Pacific region who wishes to gain experience in child and adolescent psychiatry in Australia or New Zealand.
- There must be a need for training and experience not readily available in the nominee’s home country.
- They must have the capacity of the nominee to improve local child and adolescent mental health services on return to their home country.
If there are no suitable applicants, the Fellowship will not be awarded for that year.
How to apply
Applications open 1 September - 31 October
