Bursaries
Here are some excellent potential sources of funding for your elective or other period of training with us. Most, but not all, of them are for UK-based medical students. Please let us know if you spot any out of date information. Also, please tell us about other suitable opportunities especially those for nursing and other healthcare disciplines, those based outside of the UK, and graduates…
Christian Medical Fellowship
CMF does not itself give out bursaries, but it does collate information about other agencies that do.
GIFT
Bursaries are available to certain UK healthcare students living and studying in the UK who wish to use their elective of at least six weeks to become immersed in another culture.
Institute of Medical Ethics
Bursaries of up to £800 are available to medical students wanting to use their elective period or student-selected component (SSC) period for a project connected to medical ethics.
Integritas Healthcare
We operate an internal bursary scheme for elective and other placement students who are members of UK CMF or any other ICMDA organization..
Jewish Medical Association UK
Bursaries are available for members of the Jewish Medical Association (UK) who need assistance with their elective costs.
Lady Allen of Hurtwood Memorial Trust
Bursaries of around £1,000 are available to play and childcare practitioners wanting to use their elective period, or other period of study, for a specific project that will increase their knowledge and experience of the care of young children and their families.
Medical Missionary News
Bursaries of various amounts are available to healthcare students wanting to do their elective with missional agencies such as ours.
Royal College of Physicians
Bursaries of £500 are available to medical student members of the RCP who are both academically excellent and in financial need, to assist with their elective costs.
Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh
Bursaries of various amounts are available to medical students who need assistance with their elective costs.
Scar Free Foundation
Bursaries of up to £1,200 are available for healthcare students wanting to use their elective period to undertake research in the area of wound healing and scarring conditions.
Simmonds Bursary
Bursaries of £250 are available to medical students wanting to undertake clinical research as part of their elective period.
South Asian Health Foundation
Bursaries of £250 are available to medical students wanting to improve the health and well-being of South Asians as part of their elective period.
UK Kidney Association
Bursaries of £250 are available to medical students wanting to include a significant amount of clinical or research nephrology in their elective period.
Worshipful Society of Apothecaries
Bursaries of £750 are available to UK medical students wanting to do an elective period in the area of conflict and disaster medicine.