Apollo Education UK has launched the Apollo International Clinical Fellowship Programme (ICFP), leading to MCh / MMed degree in the UK.

Apollo Education UK (AEUK) is launching the Apollo International Clinical Fellowship Programme (ICFP), 2022 as a part of its Global Workforce Development (GWD) initiative. Over the course of this three-year ICFP programme, doctors (MS/MD/DnB) can ‘earn as they learn’, receiving mentorship from senior doctors at Apollo Hospitals, India, in a preparatory year to aid transition into NHS clinical practice before being placed in a UK hospital for the next two or more years, where they can complete their clinical learning. At the same time as gaining this international work experience in an area of specialty, Doctors will study for a Master of Surgery or Master of Medicine degree at Edge Hill University.

The Apollo ICFP is carefully structured to ensure that doctors get mentorship, world-class specialist clinical exposure and hands-on experience in providing the highest standards of healthcare. The programme is a collaboration between AEUK, Global Training and Education Centre (GTEC) at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Edge Hill University, UK.

The Apollo ICFP is the latest initiative under the “Apollo Knowledge” umbrella which is the Apollo Group’s skilling, training, education, and resourcing arm. This is part of AEUK’s Global Workforce Development (GWD) initiative, an education, skilling and placement programme for healthcare professionals, helping them broaden their horizons and receive training and work experience across geographies.

Programme Highlights:

• The 3-year Apollo ICFP programme offers Specialty Pathways to Doctors who have completed their MS/MD/DnB in India
• The selected Doctors will spend Year 1 in India at Apollo Hospitals and Years 2 & 3 working and learning in the NHS Hospitals in the UK
• On completion of the training in Surgical/Medical specialties, Doctors are awarded an MCh/MMed degree by the Edge Hill University in the UK
• This is an Earn, Learn, Return and Excel programme, wherein Doctors are encouraged to come back to India post gaining work experience in the NHS and add value to the Indian Healthcare System

Mr. Sivaramakrishnan Venkateswaran, CEO, Apollo Knowledge 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”.

Professor Raj Murali MBE, FRCS (Eng), FRCS Ed, FRCS (Tr & Orth), Clinical Director, Global Training and Education Centre said, said, “I am looking forward, greatly, to welcoming the newest cohort of Doctors to the ICFP programme, particularly so across our specialties at WWL. The NHS is a wonderful institution in which to gain invaluable work experience from world-class mentors, and the doctors on the course will certainly benefit from their time with us.”

Professor Clare Austin, Pro Vice Chancellor, Dean of the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Medicine, Edge Hill University said, “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 a learn, earn, return and excel scheme.”

About Apollo Knowledge:

With the vision to enable a global learning ecosystem that helps develop human resource skills to create an empowered healthcare system for a healthier world, the Group’s promoters created a vertical focused on this effort – Apollo Knowledge – which consists of the following:

Apollo Hospitals Education and Research Foundation at Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh – consisting of the Apollo University, the Apollo Medical college, Nursing college, Allied health colleges and a healthcare management college – with over 2500 students on campus put together.

Apollo Hospitals Education & Research Foundation at Hyderabad runs Medical college, Nursing colleges, Allied health colleges, and a healthcare management college – with over 2000 students on campus.

Apollo Nursing colleges across India and Bhutan have over 3000 students enrolled. Continuing Medical Education of doctors and allied health professionals is done through our online entity Medvarsity, one of the largest providers of such online CME services in the healthcare space.

The largest healthcare entity in India devoted to Skilling and supply of paramedical and other allied health professionals, Apollo Medskills. Sourcing, Training, qualifying and placing health care professionals globally is part of our Global Workforce Development (GWD) strategy potentially seeking to drive synergy with the Crewe campus.

About Apollo Education UK:

The endeavor of AEUK is to leverage the Apollo Hospitals Group’s capabilities developed in India and address the workforce gaps across the healthcare system in the UK and address the current shortfall in NHS hospital services. AEUK is a shareholder along with the University of Buckingham (UoB) in Apollo Buckingham Health Sciences Campus (ABHSC).