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Pol­ish School of Med­i­cine Memo­r­i­al Fund Schol­ar­ships
Call for Appli­ca­tions – Edin­burgh Clin­i­cal Edu­ca­tion Sum­mer School August 2017

Clos­ing date: Thurs­day 23rd March 2017

Intro­duc­tion
The Pol­ish School of Med­i­cine Memo­r­i­al Fund sup­ports a thriv­ing schol­ar­ship pro­gramme which enables suc­cess­ful appli­cants to under­take a peri­od of fur­ther study or research at The Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh Med­ical School and relat­ed insti­tu­tions.

The Schol­ar­ship
A total of 8 schol­ar­ships are avail­able. The schol­ar­ship will cov­er the cost of the course fee and up to 7 nights’ accom­mo­da­tion at Pol­lock Halls of Res­i­dence on a Bed &breakfast basis.

Eli­gi­bil­i­ty
The pro­gramme is open to Pol­ish med­ical sci­en­tists

• in their ear­ly career (usu­al­ly with­in 10 years of their med­ical grad­u­a­tion — MB ChB equiv­a­lent)
• work­ing in Pol­ish Med­ical Academies/Universities and Research Insti­tutes
• with excel­lent mas­tery of Eng­lish and
• com­mit­ted to the fur­ther devel­op­ment of exper­tise in med­ical edu­ca­tion in Poland.

 

Note: The expec­ta­tion and inten­tion of the founders of the Pol­ish School of Med­i­cine Memo­r­i­al Fund Schol­ar­ship Pro­gramme is that suc­cess­ful appli­cants should return to their units/ depart­ments in Poland on com­ple­tion of their attachment/studies, use their new found skills to fur­ther enhance and devel­op Pol­ish med­i­cine and thus fos­ter aca­d­e­m­ic links between Pol­ish Med­ical Uni­ver­si­ties and Research Insti­tutes and The Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh.

The Edin­burgh Sum­mer School Clin­i­cal Edu­ca­tion
The Edin­burgh Sum­mer School in Clin­i­cal Edu­ca­tion (ESSCE) is a week long course of inter­ac­tive work­shops to devel­op your skills around teach­ing, learn­ing and assess­ment, with enough the­o­ry to give you the tools and the con­fi­dence to lead change, eval­u­ate devel­op­ments and ensure excel­lence in your future prac­tice.  The course dates for 2017 are 14^th ‑18^th August 2017.

More infor­ma­tion about the sum­mer school can be found at: http://www.ed.ac.uk/medicine-vet-medicine/summer-school/about or by e‑mail toessce@ed.ac.uk

How to apply: See page 2.

Address to which appli­ca­tions should be sent: maria.graham@ed.ac.uk

PLEASE NOTE: The clos­ing date: Thurs­day 23rd March 2017
Late Appli­ca­tions will NOT be con­sid­ered

 

Appli­ca­tion Pro­ce­dure:
Can­di­dates should sup­ply the fol­low­ing letters/ doc­u­ments in sup­port of their appli­ca­tion:

• an up to date Cur­ricu­lum Vitae in Eng­lish giv­ing suf­fi­cient infor­ma­tion about the their achieve­ments and par­tic­u­lar­ly their teach­ing expe­ri­ence to date so that an informed deci­sion about their suit­abil­i­ty can be made. A list mere­ly giv­ing dates, hos­pi­tal names and job titles is not accept­able;

• ver­i­fied* copy of the diplo­ma issued by the Uni­ver­si­ty or oth­er body grant­i­ng the applicant’s med­ical qual­i­fi­ca­tion;

• ver­i­fied* copy of the IELTS cer­tifi­cate or oth­er cer­tifi­cate being sub­mit­ted as evi­dence of sat­is­fac­to­ry mas­tery of the Eng­lish lan­guage. Lan­guage skills may be assessed by inter­view for those who are flu­ent in Eng­lish but do not have a cer­tifi­cate to sub­mit as evi­dence;.

• a per­son­al state­ment of no more than 500 words indi­cat­ing why they wish to apply for this schol­ar­ship and the like­ly ben­e­fit to them and their med­ical uni­ver­si­ty should they be suc­cess­ful with their appli­ca­tion;

• a let­ter of sup­port prefer­ably writ­ten in Eng­lish from the Rec­tor /Vice-Rek­tor of the applicant’s Med­ical Uni­ver­si­ty /Research Insti­tute in Poland.

* “ver­i­fied” means that the copy of the doc­u­ment is a true copy of the orig­i­nal. Con­fir­ma­tion from their Dean or Rektor’s Office will be accept­ed.

Pol­ish Doc­u­ments do not require to be trans­lat­ed into Eng­lish in this instance.

For enquiries about apply­ing for the schol­ar­ship, please con­tact:
Dr Maria Dlu­golec­ka-Gra­ham MBE
Pol­ish School of Med­i­cine Coor­di­na­tor for The Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh
Col­lege of Med­i­cine & Vet­eri­nary Med­i­cine The Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh,
Room SU205, Chan­cel­lors Build­ing
49 Lit­tle France Cres­cent
Edin­burgh   EH16 4SB    UK
e‑mail: maria.graham@ed.ac.uk