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Letter from Martin Lewis, Chairman of Trustees 28th January 2010 Dear Colleagues,
End
of year report from our Birmingham University Medical School
bursary recipient - Helen Dale. Click on the Bursary recipient
button above. Helen was our second £3,000 bursary
recipient for 2008/9 and I am sure that you will find her report
of interest.
Best wishes,
Martin Lewis
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Letter from Martin Lewis, Chairman of Trustees
December 2009 Dear Colleagues, Kidderminster PGMC Trustees Report for 2008/9.Accounts for the year ending 4th April 2009 confirm a balance of £154,982.23, down marginally from £156,937.22 in 2007/8 and the details reveal that there has been a sharp fall in income from £11,469 in 2007/8 to £4,245. This is obviously the result of a marked decline in interest rates on the Society’s investments and it follows that we ended the year with an excess of expenditure over income of £1,954.99. Despite the fall in the Trust investment income, the Trustees have agreed to continue to fund two £3,000 bursaries per annum . One of these remains allocated to Birmingham University Medical School and their bursary for 2008/9 was awarded to Helen Dale from Wolverhampton. Some of us were lucky enough to meet Helen at the Annual Dinner last month and she was anxious to stress how fortunate she felt to have had this financial support in the first year of her course. Initially, the £3,085 annual bursary to Birmingham Medical School was made for a period of three years and is due to end after the 2009/10 academic year. The Trustees have now resolved to extend this award at the same value for another three years, i.e. from 2010/11 to 2012/13 and we hope that this decision will have general approval within the Society. We trust that Birmingham will still consider a first year graduate-entry medical student a suitable recipient, preferably one with some connection to the Wyre Forest area. However, we have stated that we are happy to leave the selection of the candidate to their discretion. The second £3,000 bursary for 2008/9 was again advertised on the Society’s website and by poster in the Education Centre. We were also able to contact all the other 14 universities in the UK which offer a graduate-entry medicine course and from the ten applications received, we decided to award the bursary to Leila Bassir, a graduate-entry medical student at Swansea University, born and educated in Stourport. Leila has now completed the first year of her course and has sent me a detailed report of her progress to date which was recently published on this website (see below on this page). Suffice it to say that she has achieved very satisfactory examination results and is extremely appreciative of the Society’s support. For the academic year commencing this September, the Birmingham Medical School have again selected a young lady, Gemma Plant, for their bursary and the Trustees met last week to consider applications from ten more graduates for the second bursary. Nine of these are undertaking graduate-entry medicine courses and the tenth is the son of a local GP studying for a Masters Degree in Trauma Surgery. I can now report that we chose the orthopaedic registrar in the second year of his Msc course, who has strong personal and family connections to Wyre Forest. Overall, I am pleased to say that the general direction of the Trustees management of the Society’s investments and awards was again accepted by those present at the AGM last month. However, I can assure you that we would always be prepared to hear from other members with contrary opinions. Best wishes,
Martin Lewis
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KIDDERMINSTER MEDICAL SOCIETY
Applications are invited for the award of a bursary of £3,000 per annum for one to three years to help support a course of postgraduate research or study towards a diploma or other higher qualification in medicine or allied disciplines. Preference for the successful recipient of the award will be given to applicants who can demonstrate a connection with the Wyre Forest Area. For example this may include: · Applicants who live or work in the Wyre Forest area · Applicants who have lived in the Wyre Forest area within the previous ten years · Applicants who attended secondary school in the Wyre Forest area · Applicants who were born in the Wyre Forest area The bursary will be available for the 2009/10 academic year and applications should be submitted before the end of October 2009. The recipient will be expected to write a short report at the end of each year to update the Society on their progress.
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KIDDERMINSTER MEDICAL SOCIETY
Applications are invited for the award of a bursary of £3,000 to help support the first year of the Graduate Entry MBChB (or equivalent) course at a UK Medical School. Preference for the successful recipient of the award will be given to applicants who can demonstrate a connection with the Wyre Forest Area. For example this may include: · Applicants who live or work in the Wyre Forest area · Applicants who have lived in the Wyre Forest area within the previous ten years · Applicants who attended secondary school in the Wyre Forest area · Applicants who were born in the Wyre Forest area The bursary will be available for the 2009/10 academic year and applications should be submitted before the end of October 2009. The recipient will be expected to write a short report at the end of the year to update the Society on their progress.
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Further information can be obtained from:
Dr M L
Lewis Email: momar@waitrose.com Alternatively, click on this button to go to the website reply page and your enquiry will be forwarded.
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