Medicine

Prizes, bursaries and other funding

Entering for prizes and awards is not only about the financial benefits but also about the boost that these give to your portfolios and future prospects. Many Deaneries operate a system of ranking short-listed candidates for interview according to a scoring system and additional points have been given to students with awards and prizes. We would encourage you to apply for these which we hope will be useful to you in the furtherance of your careers.

Prize	Criteria	Award
Year 1 Prize	Best performance in the summative assessments	£100
Year 1-3 NSMI Aspire Project Award	Every year, Keele’s Aspire programme (supported by NSMI already) accepts medical students in Years 1-3 of the Undergraduate Programme to for a 4-8 week summer project. Students apply (with help from their supervisor) to gain up to £1250 in funding for projects that can be lab-based, data analysis or quantitative/qualitative reviews. Students who are successful in their applications must write a report of their findings and present these at the Annual Aspire Student Awards in November and up to two highly commended award winners.	Certificate & £100
Year 1-3 NSMI Aspire Project Highly commended Award		Certificate

Prize	Criteria	Award
Year 2 Prize	Best performance in the summative assessments	£100
Year 2 SSC Prize	Best overall mark in the SSC	£100
Year 2 Ian Gray Memorial Prize	Best performance in Year 2 Skills Examinations	£100
Year 1-3 NSMI Aspire Project Award	Every year, Keele’s Aspire programme (supported by NSMI already) accepts medical students in Years 1-3 of the Undergraduate Programme to for a 4-8 week summer project. Students apply (with help from their supervisor) to gain up to £1250 in funding for projects that can be lab-based, data analysis or quantitative/qualitative reviews. Students who are successful in their applications must write a report of their findings and present these at the Annual Aspire Student Awards in November and up to two highly commended award winners.	Certificate & £100
Year 1-3 NSMI Aspire Project Highly commended Award		Certificate

Prize	Criteria	Award
Year 3 Prize	Best performance in the summative assessments	£100
Year 3 Donald Kemp Prize	Best performance in the OSCE	£100
Year 3 Mrs Bentley Prize in Primary Care	Essay Competition - 500 words "The patient in my CCS block who has taught me the most"	£100
Year 1-3 NSMI Aspire Project Award	Every year, Keele’s Aspire programme (supported by NSMI already) accepts medical students in Years 1-3 of the Undergraduate Programme to for a 4-8 week summer project. Students apply (with help from their supervisor) to gain up to £1250 in funding for projects that can be lab-based, data analysis or quantitative/qualitative reviews. Students who are successful in their applications must write a report of their findings and present these at the Annual Aspire Student Awards in November and up to two highly commended award winners.	Certificate & £100
Year 1-3 NSMI Aspire Project Highly commended Award		Certificate
Year 3 NSMI Lab based Award	Student Selected Components (SSC) (8 weeks). Students have the opportunity to combine two SSC ‘blocks’ to undertake a supervised laboratory project, with the expectation of scientific write up. The uptake of this with students is less common (less than 10% of the cohort) but the output is often of high quality. The report is marked by the supervisor and given a score out of 20 (16/20 = Good, 20/20 = excellent). Those deemed ‘Excellent’ would be sent to a small panel (including NSMI and MBChB staff members) to determine a prize-winner and up to two highly commended award winners.	Certificate & £100
Year 3 NSMI Lab based highly commended Award		Certificate
RCGP Midland Faculty Award	Prize is awarded based on the best prescribing poster.	£50

Prize	Criteria	Award
Year 4 Prize	Best performance in the summative assessments	£100
Year 4 Chris Wilkins Memorial Prize	Best performance in Families and Children SSC	£100
Year 4 Medical Women's Federation Prize	Best SSC in the field of Obstetrics and Gynaecology	£100
Year 4 Mrs Bentley Prize	Greatest rise in ranking between Year 3 OSCE and Year 4 OSCE	£100

Prize	Criteria	Award
Year 5 Nigel Eastwood Memorial Prize	Best overall performance in Year 5	£100
Year 5 Elective Prize	Best photo (with accompanying paragraph of text) taken on elective	£50

Prize	Criteria	Award
Wilfrid Kirkham Anatomy Prize	Best overall performance in Anatomy (Years 1, 2, or 3)	£100

Prize	Criteria	Award
Arthritis UK Medical Student Prize in Musculoskeletal Medicine	Written report (which can be taken from an SSC) in the area of musculoskeletal medicine (rheumatology, orthopaedics, etc.). Judged by a panel of local clinicians	£250

Student Conference Bursary

The School of Medicine has a small grant to help students with the expenses of attending conferences, especially if you are presenting.

The Conference Bursary Group meets three times per year in November, February and June.

The group will not reimburse the costs of any courses, only conferences, and if funds are limited will prioritise those who are presenting. Reasonable travel and accommodation costs will be allowed.

If you are successful you will need to submit an expenses form with receipts to the School of Medicine Student Support Office who will forward these to the Finance Department. This means you will not be reimbursed until after the event. Payments will be declined if receipts are not presented or if there is a delay in forwarding them after the Conference.

Application forms:

External annual bursaries

The Royal Society of Medicine have a large number of annual prizes, awards and fellowships.

The Royal College of Surgeons of England have an annual scholarship, elective prize and intercalated degree award.

The Royal College of Physicians London has the Oscar Reginald Lewis Bequest which makes annual awards to students spending their elective period abroad.

The Royal College of Radiologists have undergraduate bursaries for medical students undertaking electives in clinical radiology and clinical oncology.

Wellbeing of Women award annual bursaries, part funded by the National Birthday Trust, to medical students whose electives are in Obstetrics, Gynaecology, Neonatology and Midwifery.

Heart Research UK have regional intercalated BSc Scholarships for medical students specialising in heart research.

The Wolfson Foundation have annual medical intercalated awards.

The Association of Commonwealth Universities have the Edward Boyle Memorial Trust medical elective bursaries.

The Institute of Medical Ethics have grants and awards available to support medical student electives and medical student intercalated scholarships on medical ethics.

Versus Arthritis has a scheme to offer musculoskeletal student electives.

The Medical Schools Council have Beit Trust medical elective bursaries for students undertaking medical electives in Southern Africa.

The Faculty of Occupational Medicine have Mobbs Student Electives Fellowships.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists have Pathfinder Fellowship awards for students in their penultimate year of study who are interested in pursuing a career in Psychiatry.

External annual prizes

The Royal Society of Medicine have a large number of annual prizes, awards and fellowships.

The Royal College of Surgeons of England have an annual scholarship, elective prize and intercalated degree award.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists have an annual medical student essay prize.

The Royal College of Radiologists have four annual undergraduate prizes.

The Medical Council on Alcohol hold an essay competition each year.

The British Holistic Medical Association hold an annual essay competition for which the David Cobbold Essay Prize is awarded.

The British Society for Dermatological Surgery have an annual essay prize for medical students.

ASME (the Association for the Study of Medical Education) sponsors the Sir John Ellis Student Prizes available for both standard and intercalated degrees.

The Faculty of Public Health award the Cochrane Prize to an undergraduate student each year.

The Royal College of General Practitioners award an annual elective prize.

The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene award an annual elective prize.

The Pain Relief Foundation have an annual medical student essay prize.

The British Society for Haematology have an annual medical student essay prize.

The Dystonia Society have an annual Jackie Deakin essay competition.

Keele University bursaries NHS bursaries Other funding