SMSTDA-Project Award

This SMSTDA-Project award enables the medical student to work on a project with a Supervising Faculty (i.e. a named assigned faculty) of an Academic Clinical Programme (ACP).

The theme of the project can be Research, Education, Clinical Quality/Innovation or Clinical Audit (e.g. genomic studies; education applications; diagnostic device, audit on complication rates etc.), and other worthwhile initiatives (e.g. leading an overseas humanitarian medical outreach project).

Eligibility

The SMSTDA-Project is open to local/overseas Medical Students who meets the following eligibility criteria:

• Medical students studying in the local three medical schools:
  1. National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
  2. Duke-NUS Medical School
  3. Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (a partnership between Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Imperial College London)
• Singaporeans/PRs studying in an overseas medical school (Overseas Medical School students)
• The applicant must be in the last three years of the medical school programme at the start of the funding period in one of the above-mentioned schools.

Funding Support

i. The duration of the funding support is 18 months.

ii. The quantum of each project award will be S$7,000, which comprises:

• S$2,000 merit award which will be presented to the medical student when the student submits his/her end-of-project report at the end of the Funding Period.
• S$5,000 which will be available for the duration of the Funding Period on a reimbursement basis to the ACP hosting the medical student. This money will be used to help defray project-related expenses.