Founded in 1994, the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre (SKMCH&RC) is a specialist cancer care center funded by various charitable donations. The hospital is renowned for its active research, diagnosis and treatment of cancer and offers a number of fully funded fellowships for Pakistani medical students. For example, the Fellowship in Orthopaedic and Musculoskeletal Tumour Surgery is geared toward a senior Orthopaedic trainee with a focus on the treatment of musculoskeletal tumors, arthroscopic surgery and joint replacement surgery, while the Fellowship in Medical Oncology offers a 3-year training position that exposes selected candidates to the wide gamut of oncology. Eligibility criteria differ between fellowships.
The interdisciplinary MI Lab (Medical Imaging Laboratory for Innovative Future Healthcare) is located in Trondheim, Norway, at the St. Olavs Hospital, as part of the NTNU University. The main goal of the 3-year fellowship is to encourage the close collaboration between medical doctors and technology researchers. Each fellow will be assigned differing responsibilities in various areas, while the MI Lab tries to tailor each Ph.D. project to the candidates' competence and interests. The program accepts on average eight Ph.D. candidates per year from all countries across the globe, however, MI Lab is ranked on the Pakistan Scholarships website as one of the top fellowships available to medical students in the country. The requirements for the MI Lab include a master's degree, or equivalent, along with fluent English skills.
China's Xinjiang Medical University, which is regulated by the Ministry of Education in China, has a regional office in Pakistan through which it offers numerous scholarships to Pakistani medical students for a 5-year international undergraduate program. Scholarships are awarded to students who excel in the Faculty of Sciences, premedical degree. The first two years of the program are devoted to basic theoretical subjects, including anatomy, physiology and biochemistry. From the third year, studies shift to gynecology, surgery, neurology, internal medicine and pediatrics.