Hi Courtney!
I’m sorry, I wish I had a good suggestion for alternate funding. But I can share my experience with the tuition grants from Depuy Synthes post-pandemic. Since the pandemic, they were still providing grants for AO Basic (as of last year anyway), but for an amount that just covers registration for the course. I suspect their overall funding allocation for courses has been reduced as well. They also ask that you submit your grant requests for the entire calendar year (not academic year) all together. That could be why many courses later in 2023 have already reached funding allocation. We were still able to get a grant for the May 2023 AO Basic course, but we submitted our request in August 2022. If the grant cycle is going to close so early in a calendar year, our residents are really going to have to plan far ahead for their conference scheduling!
Laurie
