Pol­ish School of Med­i­cine Memo­r­i­al Fund
Schol­ar­ship Pro­grammes 2018/2019

Clos­ing Date for Appli­ca­tions:
17.00hrs Mon­day Jan­u­ary 14th 2019

Call for Schol­ar­ship Appli­ca­tions
1. Edin­burgh Tho­racic CT course 2nd &3rd April 2019 and
2. Edin­burgh Lev­el 2 Car­diac CT course 1st ‑5th April 2019

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 Cours­es: The Edin­burgh Lev­el 2 Car­diac and the Edin­burgh Tho­racic CT cours­es are deliv­ered by experts in the field and are high­ly pop­u­lar. Feed­back from pre­vi­ous par­tic­i­pants is very pos­i­tive. Places on the course will be lim­it­ed. For fur­ther infor­ma­tion on the cours­es go to: https://www.ct-academy.org/

The Schol­ar­ships: A total of 4 schol­ar­ships, 2 for each course, will be avail­able. The Course fee will be paid at the trainee rate and accom­mo­da­tion (see below for each course) will be arranged by the Coor­di­na­tor and will be on a sin­gle room bed and break­fast basis at Pol­lock Halls of Res­i­dence. These schol­ar­ships do not cov­er trav­el to and from Poland.

Edin­burgh Tho­racic CT course 2nd & 3rd April 2019
Accom­mo­da­tion will be pro­vid­ed for up to 4 nights, from Sun­day 31st March/ Mon­day 1st April 2019 to the morn­ing of Thursday4th /Friday 5th April 2019.

Edin­burgh Lev­el 2 Car­diac CT course 1st 5th April 2019
Accom­mo­da­tion for up to 8 nights, that is from Sun­day 31st March 2019– to the morn­ing of Sunday7th April 2019.

Eli­gi­bil­i­ty
These schol­ar­ships are open to Pol­ish med­ical doc­tors in train­ing involved in car­dio­vas­cu­lar imag­ing who are:

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

Suc­cess­ful appli­cants are:
• expect­ed to meet the gen­er­al cri­te­ria for the award of these schol­ar­ships;
• attend the full course, not arrive late and/or depart ear­ly;
• sub­mit a short report of their expe­ri­ence on the course by e‑mail to the Schol­ar­ships Coor­di­na­tor with­in one month of its com­ple­tion

The expec­ta­tion and inten­tion of the founders of both The Pol­ish School of Med­i­cine Memo­r­i­al Fund and the Boloz-Kulesza Trust Fund Schol­ar­ship Pro­grammes are that suc­cess­ful appli­cants will 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 includ­ing med­ical research and thus fos­ter aca­d­e­m­ic links between Pol­ish Med­ical Uni­ver­si­ties and Research Insti­tutes and The Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh.

Clos­ing date for schol­ar­ship appli­ca­tions: 17.00hrs Mon­day 28th Jan­u­ary 2019
Late appli­ca­tions will not be con­sid­ered

Please note: There is a sep­a­rate appli­ca­tion process for the course itself appli­cants will be giv­en the rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion if their schol­ar­ship appli­ca­tion is suc­cess­ful.

How to Apply
1. Appli­ca­tions should be sent elec­tron­i­cal­ly to the Schol­ar­ship Coor­di­na­tor, Dr Maria Dlu­golec­ka-Gra­ham MBE (e‑mail:maria.graham@ed.ac.uk) by the clos­ing date (28th Jan­u­ary 2019). Late appli­ca­tions will NOT be con­sid­ered
2. Appli­cants must sub­mit the fol­low­ing doc­u­ments in sup­port of their appli­ca­tion:

• An up-to-date CV giv­ing ade­quate infor­ma­tion about their exper­tise and train­ing in car­di­ol­o­gy to date. A list of dates and posts held will not suf­fice;
• A let­ter of sup­port from their Rek­tor or vice- rec­tor;
• Doc­u­men­tary evi­dence of hav­ing an ade­quate mas­tery of Eng­lish. Where no exter­nal­ly val­i­dat­ed cer­tifi­cate ( eg IELTS, TOEFL or Cam­bridge Advanced or Pro­fi­cien­cy Cer­tifi­cate or equiv­a­lent is avail­able, appli­cants will be required to under­go a Skype or tele­phone inter­view to estab­lish the lev­el of their Eng­lish lan­guage skills Appli­cants must indi­cate that they agree to this assess­ment in their schol­ar­ship appli­ca­tion..
• A state­ment (of no more than 500 words) of why they wish to be con­sid­ered for a schol­ar­ship and how they per­son­al­ly and their depart­ment are like­ly to ben­e­fit from their par­tic­i­pa­tion in the course
• A signed state­ment agree­ing that they will write a short report of their expe­ri­ence on the course and sub­mit it, by e‑mail, to the schol­ar­ship coor­di­na­tor with­in 1 month of com­plet­ing the course.
• Note: A tem­plate for prepar­ing the report is avail­able but schol­ars are not oblig­ed to use it.

Clos­ing date for appli­ca­tions: 17.00hrs Mon­day 28th Jan­u­ary 2019

For enquiries about apply­ing for these schol­ar­ships, 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