Graduate Studentships

Application form (linked above) including the following attachments:

• One page research proposal plus references (1” margins, 12pt font, Times New Roman, single spaced). Potential or direct relevance to human health must be demonstrated in the application.

• Applicant’s CV using the NSERC Tri-Agency CV format or the CIHR Tri-Agency CV format (maximum 5 pages, including headings for degrees, awards, research experience, work experience, publications, presentations, extracurriculars). (1”margins, 12pt font, Times New Roman, single spaced)
• Copy of undergraduate and graduate transcripts

Supervisor
Supervisor must provide a current CV (NSERC Tri-Agency CV format or the CIHR Tri-Agency CV format)

One letter of reference
The letter of reference must be from someone who is not the supervisor who submitted their CV to support this application. Please consider former professors, supervisors and leaders.

• At the time of award commencement, candidates must be a full-time registered student in one of the following graduate programs affiliated with Dalhousie University's Faculty of Medicine: Community Health and Epidemiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Physiology and Biophysics, Microbiology and Immunology, Pharmacology, Pathology, Psychiatry, Medical Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, or Medical Physics.
• The primary supervisor must hold their primary appointment with the Faculty of Medicine and have active FGS membership permitting graduate student supervision.
• Applicants cannot hold concurrent FoM Graduate Studentships.

• Awards are valued at $15,000/year for up to two years and may be used to top-up students' scholarship support from non-FoM sources to a maximum of $40,000.
  
• Students must maintain registration and good standing in their graduate program for the second year of funding to be released.
• The funding start date will be September 1st of the year when the award is accepted.
• Awards must be accepted within 5 working days from the date of offer, or the award will be offered to the next fundable applicant.
• Successful applicants must have applied to and have accepted any awarded FGS and Scotia Scholar scholarships before accepting FoM Scholarships.
• It is the responsibility of the applicant to inform the Medical Research Development Office (MRDO) immediately if they receive scholarship funding from other sources to exceed the funding maximum of $40,000 per year.

Applications will be screened by the Faculty of Medicine Scholarship Committee for:

• Academic excellence (e.g., references, transcripts, awards, academic leadership)
  
• Candidate’s abilities (e.g., skills, contributions to research, etc.)
• Quality of the proposed research (e.g., scope, clarity, and feasibility of the proposal?
• Quality of the research environment (e.g., supervisor’s productivity, availability of research funding, technical support, potential for collaborations)