The American Orthopaedic Association founded the Austrian-Swiss-German Travelling Fellowship tour in 1981. The ASG Fellowship, as it is known, represents exchange between the AOA and the Austrian, Swiss and German orthopaedic associations.

General Information

Two German Fellows, one Swiss Fellow and one Austrian Fellow tour North America over a four-week period each year. The ASG Fellowship Committee in Europe selects the Fellows.

The North American tour traditionally centres around the Orthopaedic Research Society and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meetings each year, where the AOA honors the Fellows and presents them with certificates at a luncheon. Fellows also may tour Great Britain before or after coming to the United States.

The Canadian Orthopaedic Association will join the American Orthopaedic Association in sponsoring one Canadian candidate to join two American surgeons, along with a possible British surgeon selected by the British Orthopaedic Association, for the 2008 tour. This tour is open to orthopaedists who are under the age of 49 years of age as of December 31, 2006.