Pierre J. Durand Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship 2023

Objective:

This program aims to recruit new candidates for the 3rd cycle programs of the Faculty of Medicine and to help professor-researchers to welcome more students in order to improve the performance of their laboratory. We also encourage Aboriginal students who are registered in a postgraduate program at the Faculty of Medicine to submit an application.

Eligibility for the Pierre J. Durand Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship:

• Applicants must be admitted or have submitted an application for admission for the first time in winter 2023, summer 2023 or fall 2023  in a 3rd cycle program of the Faculty of Medicine of Université Laval, with the obtaining his master's degree or equivalent.
• Candidates must not benefit from any nominative scholarship of more than $15,000. However, the student agrees to apply for grants from other organizations.
• Scholarships are not transferable to another program, another faculty, another university or another candidate.

Documents required:

• Motivation letter (1-page maximum)
• CV of the candidate-student (2 pages maximum)
• Transcripts (Capsule accepted)
• Master's degrees or equivalent (if completed)
• Short summary of the research project (Half a page maximum)
• The research director must submit a letter of commitment specifying the financial support. The professor undertakes to supervise the scholarship holder's work, to provide him with minimum funding of $17,500 for the master's and $21,000 for the doctorate and to provide him with the material means to carry out his research project.