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Medical Fellowship Programme

Pictured – Eunan Friel (Johnson & Johnson Medical), Knut Moe (RCSI Fellowship student 2009), and Michael Earley (Chairman, Operation Smile Ireland)

The Operation Smile Ireland Medical Student Fellowship was established in 2009 in order to provide medical students with an opportunity to participate in international medical missions and to expand their understanding of and dedication to the humanitarian nature of the medical services field.

The introduction of this Fellowship provides an invaluable experience for medical students that will be carried with them throughout their lifetime.


Pictured – Catherine Graham (Trinity College Fellowship student 2010)

It will encourage their humanitarian commitment to children with facial deformities in the developing world while also helping to attract medical volunteers to Operation Smile Ireland in years to come.

Each fellowship is fully sponsored and to date:

• The RCSI Fellowship has been sponsored by Johnson and Johnson Medical.
• The Trinity College Fellowship is sponsored by Tekno Surgical Ltd., and
• The forthcoming Fellowship at the University of Limerick will be sponsored by PEI Ltd.

When the medical student returns from their mission they present their experiences to their fellow students and to their sponsoring company thus giving the company and their employees a direct link, via the medical student, to the children whose lives have been changed by Operation Smile volunteers.

It is planned that there will be fellowships at all Irish Medical Schools by 2012.

To read stories of our Medical Fellowship students and their experiences on Operation Smile missions, please click below.

Knut Moe Nairobi, Kenya - 13-22 August 2009 Read More >

Catherine Graham Guwahati, India – 28 January – 11 February, 2010 Read More >