Association of Clinical Pathologists

  ACP CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD 2012

Applications for this award will be considered through out the calendar year

This award replaces the previously available ACP Consultant Personal/Career Development award and the ACP Overseas Travelling Fellowship. Specialist Registrars in training may also apply for the new ACP Career Development Award.

 

  • Decisions on the award will be taken at the Council meeting in June and communicated over the following week
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  • £10,000 is available for one or more awards in 2012; applications may be for all or part of this. Top-up applications and those matching funding from the awards with local funding will be favourably considered
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  • The application form, obtainable from ACP or from the website, covers justification for the support sought for the period of service training, personal development, or study for management qualification(s) beneficial to clinical pathology service delivery, which may be at home or overseas. Examples of successful applications include:

         -  a visit by a consultant virologist to a laboratory in the USA to learn raft-cell culture methods for human papillomavirus.

         -  a visit by a Chinese histopathologist (an ACP member) to Australia to widen his experience of gynaecological and breast tumour pathology.

  • Applications must be for finance not otherwise available from the applicant's employer (with evidence of this).
  • Awards may cover tuition fees, travelling and maintenance costs while the planned (future) period of study is undertaken. The award may NOT be used to cover the cost of any locum required for a successful applicant.
  • The study or development must form part of a personal development plan agreed with the applicant's Clinical Director or Programme Director/Educational Supervisor who should briefly endorse the application to this effect.
  • Written confirmation is required from the proposed host department.
  • Retrospective applications for periods of study that have already been undertaken will not be considered.
  • Applications can be accepted from existing ACP member Specialist Registrars and consultant members at any stage in their career.
  • The awards are tenable during 2012 and remittance will be upon receipt of a publishable report for ACP news on what has been learned or gained from the study or development. This report must be submitted within 6 months of completion of the period of study or funding will be withdrawn.

 

Please return completed form by post to:

The ACP Postgraduate Education Secretary
Association of Clinical Pathologists
189 Dyke Road, Hove, BN3 1TL

Tel: 01273 775700

and also by e-mail to rachel@pathologists.org.uk

 

Click here for a printable application form