Scholarship Experience – Fabiola Jerez
My name is Fabiola Jerez from Honduras. I received a BCC Training Scholarship from the PAAO and PAOF.
My name is Fabiola Jerez from Honduras. I received a BCC Training Scholarship from the PAAO and PAOF.
It’s been 3 months since I moved back to Costa Rica after finishing my one-year of Pediatric Retina training at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (BPEI), Miam…
In 2013, I was lucky to be part of the first generation to receive the scholarship from the SOPANOP and the PAAO, sponsored by Allergan, to go for one month in an internationally prestigious center of oculoplastics in the United States or Europe…
I had the privilege of being one of the first Gillingham Fellowship award recipients from the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology (PAAO) in 1994.
Thanks to Pan-American support, I was able to achieve my dreams. I highly recommend that any ophthalmology residents interested in gaining research experience in an international setting to apply.
Along with pursuing a Retina fellowship, the possibility of training abroad was a big dream. I decided to take my chances and applied for an international vitreo-retinal fellowship in Canada…