Medical Electives Scheme

RCPath/ Specialist Society Medical Elective small grant scheme

The RCPath/Specialist Society Medical Elective small grant scheme was a new scheme launched to mark the College’s Diamond Jubilee in 2022.

The scheme is joint funded by RCPath and partner Societies from the different disciplines and will offer small grants of value up to £1,000, to help support undergraduate medical and veterinary students who wish to undertake electives in pathology disciplines.

Electives may be clinical or research-based and may be undertaken in any part of the world.

A minimum of £500 must be used for student travel and subsistence with the remaining amount being spent flexibly for project-related costs such as consumables, or for student costs, as appropriate for the project.

Six awards will be made annually:

RCPath/ Association for Laboratory Medicine elective award: to support an elective relevant to clinical biochemistry

RCPath/ British Society for Haematology elective award: to support an elective relevant to haematology

RCPath/ British Society for Immunology elective award: to support an elective relevant to immunology

RCPath/ British Society for Veterinary Pathology elective award: to support an elective for a veterinary student, in any pathology discipline

RCPath/ Microbiology Society elective award: to support an elective relevant to infection, microbiology, or virology

RCPath/ Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland* elective award: to support an elective relevant to cellular pathology

*In these schemes, the partner Society can assist you in finding a short research project and project supervisor, if you so wish. If you would like to take this up, please email PathSoc@rcpath.org to discuss further, at least 2 months before the application deadline.