Research Awards

GESA Postgraduate Medical Research Scholarship

Purpose

This scholarship is to support a medical graduate wishing to gain full-time research training into health and disease related to the broad field of gastroenterology and hepatology and related disorders while enrolled for a MD or PhD.

Value

The major conditions and the stipends for this scholarship are identical to those of the NHMRC Medical Research Scholarship.

Eligibility

The applicant is required to:

Read, understand and agree to all the requirements listed in the 2009 Instruction booklet.
Be a current financial member of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia, defined as "confirmed as a financial member of the society prior to taking up the award";
Attend the next Australian Gastroenterology Week (AGW) following notification of the award and in each year of tenure; and
Correctly fill in the application form and lodge with attachments prior to the closing date.
The proposed supervisor is required to be a current financial member of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia at the time of submission of the application.
It is preferred that applicants intend pursing a career in gastroenterology or hepatology. However, the research committee reserves the right to evaluate each application on a case-by-case basis.

Reporting

Scholarship recipients must provide the Society with a concise summary of their progress by 31 October in each year of the scholarship tenure.

Report forms are available on the Society website www.gesa.org.au

Late or non-submission of these reports will result in stipend payments being withheld by the Society.

The Council of the Society shall have the right to publish, or use in such a manner as they see fit, any such report, in whole or in part, providing due acknowledgement of the source is made.