Mohy Taha

Doctor Mohy Taha MBBCh, MD, FMH, is a board-certified and fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon in Basel, Switzerland, with extensive training in shoulder and elbow surgery.

He is an author, speaker, and the founder of MY-FELLOWSHIP, www.myfellowship.com. The impetus to start MY-FELLOWSHIP stemmed from Dr. Taha's own experiences with medical fellowships. Amassing the knowledge that he has now—through five fellowships and nine observerships completed across Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, and the USA—as an orthopedic surgeon, specializing in the shoulder and elbow, was an extremely rewarding, but frustrating and complicated process.

Dr. Taha thought he was alone in this, until his fellowship in Australia in 2016 where he met other doctors who were dissatisfied with their fellowship process as well. That is when he began to ask—"How can something so crucial to the development of a medical professional be this unorganized and impossible to navigate?"

Coming from Egypt and moving to Switzerland, where Dr. Taha currently works at the Basel University Hospital, meant that he had to learn German from scratch and work harder than most to build his medical career. Essentially, he beat the odds, but that may not be so for other doctors who have the same aptitude as he does, or even more. As a result, Dr. Taha created MY-FELLOWSHIP in collaboration with the VSAO-Basel (Association of Swiss Residents and Consultants) to provide all individuals in the medical field equal opportunity to access knowledge, through fellowships and pivotal connections, by linking up information from potential fellows, past fellows, institutions, and sponsors, all of which had previously existed on separate planes without structure.

Over time, with support from the global medical community, Dr. Taha envisions that MY-FELLOWSHIP will grow to become more than just a platform connecting individuals to streamline fellowship application processes; it will evolve into a centralized hub of medical knowledge for all with the help of technology. The goal is not just to make a resounding impact in the lives of doctors/researchers, but to ultimately increase the quality of patient care exponentially. If you would like to know more about how MY-FELLOWSHIP can help your medical career or what you can do to contribute, please visit www.myfellowship.com.