Deadline: 19 November 2015
The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission is inviting applicants for Commonwealth Medical Fellowships, funded by UK Department for International Development (DFID) with the aim of contributing to the UK’s international development aims and wider overseas interests, supporting excellence in UK higher education, and sustaining the principles of the Commonwealth.
The Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP) is one of the largest and most prestigious scholarship schemes for international study in the world. The fellowship provides mid-career medics and dentists with the opportunity to enhance their clinical skills, and to have catalytic effects on their workplaces.
Benefits
- Approved airfare from the scholar’s home country to the UK and return at the end of their award (the CSC will not reimburse the cost of fares for dependants, nor usually the cost of journeys made before your award is finally confirmed)
- Research support grant, payable to your host university hospital
- Stipend (living allowance) at the rate of £1,580 per month, or £1,959 per month for those at universities in the London metropolitan area (rates quoted at 2015-2016 levels)
- Reimbursement of the fee for a single English language test and the fee for General Medical Council (GMC)/General Dental Council (GDC) registration
- Arrival allowance
- Study travel grant towards the costs of approved travel within the UK or overseas
- If applicant are widowed, divorced, or a single parent, child allowance of £444 per month for the first child, and £109 per month for the second and third child under the age of 16,
Eligibility Criteria
To apply for these fellowships, applicant must
- Be a Commonwealth citizen, refugee, or British protected person
- Be permanently resident in a developing Commonwealth country
- Be employed by a hospital affiliated to a university
- Be nominated to the CSC by an eligible institution
- Be available to start your fellowship in the UK on 1 October 2016
- Have qualified as a doctor or dentist between 1 October 2006 and 30 September 2009, or before 1 October 2001
- Have met the English language requirements of the General Medical Council (GMC) / General Dental Council (GDC) by 15 April 2016
How to apply
Interested applicants may apply online via CSC’s Electronic Application System, as mentioned on the website.
For more information, please visit Commonwealth Scholarship Fellowships.
