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Educational Exchanges and University Partnerships

Operation Smile offers educational exchange programs to in-country medical professionals through partnerships with leading academic institutions. In order to offer training in new and advanced techniques, Operation Smile pairs in-country teams of physicians, nurses and healthcare professionals with faculty from prestigious universities across the globe. These Operation Smile sponsored opportunities include the Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar programs, short and long term observerships and clinical training in a supervised environment. Programs can take place in the University partner’s facility, in the participant’s home country or in both.


Nurses received specialty training at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA during the 2008 Physicians’ Training Program

Partners In Education

  • American Heart Association
  • Chang Gung Hospital and University
  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Duke University
  • George Washington University
  • The Hospital for Sick Children/ University of Toronto
  • Old Dominion University
  • Penn State University
  • Southern Illinois University
  • University of Maryland
  • University of Rome
  • University of Southern California
  • Yale University

Exchange Disciplines

  • Anesthesia
  • Child Life Psychology
  • Dentistry
  • Nursing
  • Pediatrics
  • Plastic Surgery
  • Speech Pathology