THE DICKINSON TRUST SCHOLARSHIP FUND

Information and Guidance

The Dickinson Trust Scholarship is administered by the Central Manchester and Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Department of Postgraduate Medical Educationon behalf of the Dickinson Trust, a charity that funds this scheme. Where study leave funding is not available, bursaries can be applied for:

  • to fund travel at the start and end of the placement only, and living expenses of up to £400 a month for those wishing to spend time at another centre or organisation for educational purposes, either at home or abroad, for periods of up to a year.
  • to fund travel and expensesfor those presenting posters or giving presentations at conferences at home or abroad. Accommodation and subsistence expenses will be funded for 2 days only up to a maximum of £100 a day.

The scheme is open to:

  • All CMFT employees.
  • Graduates who have received their clinical training as students at one of the Teaching Hospitals of the University of Manchester (CMFT, South Manchester, Salford or Preston). This includes healthcare graduates outside medicine and nursing.
  • Those who hold a post-graduate training post at any level up to and including registrar, in one of the University of Manchester Teaching Hospitals.
  • Newly appointed CMFT consultants including those who have not yet taken up their post and who might benefit from short periods of study elsewhere.

Previous awards have successfully supported the following attachments and conference attendance:

  • Poster presentation at the Association for Medical Education Conference in Europe (France)

Undergraduate Community Coordinator

  • 12 month MSc in Epidemiology to broaden research and pharmaco-epidemiology skills (Canada)

Clinical Lecturer in Rheumatology

  • Defraying travel costs to Australia to attend a Conference held by the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Research Nurse

APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED BY FRIDAY 12 APRIL 2013.

PLEASE NOTE THAT EVENTS FOR WHICH FUNDING IS BEING APPLIED FOR MUST TAKE PLACE AFTER THE NEXT MEETING OF THE DICKINSON TRUSTEES ON MONDAY 20 MAY 2013. RETROSPECTIVE APPLICATIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTED.

For further details and for application forms, please contact:

Sally Hussey, Medical Education Manager,

Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust:

or tel: 0161 276 8728