Association of Clinical Pathologists ACP STUDENT RESEARCH FUND Guidelines for entry 2012The Association of Clinical Pathologists is keen to encourage undergraduates to undertake some research within laboratory medicine, to raise the profile of laboratory medicine within the minds of undergraduates and to aid in recruitment of young graduates. Increasingly Medical Schools are integrating elective student projects into the curriculum and these may be in laboratory medicine, often with a small research or audit project. These often require small amounts of funding for reagents, minor consumables or even, on occasions, staff overtime such as the cutting of histological sections for the student to perform immunohistochemistry. The ACP Student Research Fund is open to applications from undergraduate students (sponsored by ACP members if possible). Students can apply for: • funding of a small project which is educational in nature to cover living expenses (up to £150 per week for a maximum of six weeks) and other costs associated with the project. The total payable to any one student undertaking such a project in any one year is £1000. The association will not fund the purchase of undergraduate textbooks or books that would normally be encountered in a pathology department or university library costs. • Financial sponsorship to help support living expenses during their extra undergraduate year while undertaking a BSc / BMed Sci (£5,000 maximum). The ACP will approve funding for projects based on educational content. The ACP cannot review other aspects, which are the responsibility of the supervisor • Funding of up to £1000 for the cost of consumables, incurred whilst undertaking an intercalated degree whether or not the student is funded by the ACP, provided the student's supervisor confirms in writing that the host department is not receiving support e.g. bench fees from medical school or university that the student attends. Applicants should complete the relevant application form, including a brief statement of not more than 400 words outlining their interest in laboratory medicine, and include a full CV. Applications should include details of the work to be undertaken as part of the project or during the BSc and be supported in writing by the project supervisor, or by the Head of Department in which the student will be placed. The total sum available within the ACP Student Research Fund in 2012 is £ 10,000 . The Postgraduate Education Secretary of the Association will determine how the ACP Student Research Fund is to be allocated, if necessary in consultation with the Speciality Chairman or occasionally by referral to the Postgraduate Education Committee. The applicant is required to declare any other grants awarded or under consideration for this course or project. In order to obtain a spread of the Awards they will not normally be awarded to a student from the same medical school in successive years although this should not deter applicants if they are aware that such an award was made. For a BSc / BMed Sci the amount awarded will be available to the student from the start of the academic year. For small project grants the money will only be available if the project as approved is undertaken. The successful applicant will be required to submit an article to ACP News on completion of their project or Degree. Applications for project funding will be considered throughout the year but applications to support a BSc / BMedSci for the 2012 calendar year will be considered through out the year but may be referred to one of the four quarterly council meetings for final consideration. Please return completed form by post to: ACP Postgraduate Education Secretary Tel: 01273 775700 and also by e-mail to rachel@pathologists.org.uk
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