Resources
Education for Trainees
Fellowship Education and Training
Education for IMGs
Open for applications 25 March to 6 May 2024
Value: AUD $6,300
The Anwar and Myrtha Girgis SIMG Grant supports migrant, refugee and asylum seeker doctors who are experiencing financial hardship to gain the professional development required to practice surgery in Australia or Aotearoa New Zealand.
Dr Anwar Riad Girgis was an Orthopaedic surgeon who practised in Whyalla and Adelaide after migrating to Australia in 1969. Dr Girgis trained in medicine in Egypt and then undertook postgraduate training in the United Kingdom. In appreciation of the assistance given to him by generous colleagues in the UK and Australia, he and his wife Myrtha later supported Trainees and Specialist International Medical Graduates (SIMGs) who wished to settle in Australia.
Dr Anwar Girgis’ children, Mona Girgis and Peter Girgis, established this grant with the Foundation for Surgery in their late father’s honour.