Research Awards

GESA Postgraduate Clinical Research Scholarship

Closing Date: 31 August 2008

Purpose

This scholarship is to support a medical or science graduate, wishing to gain full-time training in methodology pertinent to any aspect of clinical research related to gastroenterology or hepatology disorders, while enrolled for an MD or PhD.

Definition

Clinical research is defined broadly as research predominantly involving human subjects. It may involve clinical or physiological studies of patients or volunteers, studies based on diagnostic or therapeutic procedures, clinical epidemiology, population studies, observational studies, clinical practice, treatment trials or evaluation of medical technology. There may be a component of laboratory studies, but applications for predominately laboratory-based work should be directed to the other awards offered by the Society.

Career Stage

The award is designed for candidates at an early stage in their careers, for example (but not confined to) advanced trainees who have completed core clinical training at the time of taking up the scholarship

Value

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

Eligibility

The applicant is required to:

Read, understand and agree to all the requirements listed in the 2008 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 complete the application form and lodge it with attachments prior to the closing date.
The proposed supervisor is required to be a financial member of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia at the time of submission of the application.

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.