Vascular Surgery Scholarship Opportunities

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Dear Medical Students,

 

The UofT Vascular Surgery Interest Group would like to notify you about some exciting scholarship opportunities that are coming up!

 

1) Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Annual Meeting (Application Due: Feb 24)

 

This is a really exciting opportunity to go to the largest international vascular surgery conference in National Harbour (by Washington DC). Not only do you get funding to attend, you will get to participate in exclusive scholarship events including:

 

- Surgical simulation training where you learn how to do vascular anastomoses/EVARs/ultrasound guided access procedures and you're taught one-on-one with the top staff vascular surgeons/program directors in North America

- Information sessions on how to prepare for residency interviews, build a great CV, and plan for a surgical career

- Attend amazing dinners/wine&cheeses with your assigned vascular mentor

- Meet with medical students/general surgery residents/vascular residents from across North America

 

For more information: http://www.vascularweb.org/educationandmeetings/2012%20Vascular%20Annual%20Meeting/Pages/StudentActivities.aspx

 

2) Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery National Student Award (Application Due: March 15)

 

Receive $2000 for conducting a vascular surgery research project in any area related to vascular surgery (basic science, clinical outcomes, ethics, education, etc.)

 

For more information: http://canadianvascular.ca/index.php?m=32&page=241

 

 

To learn about more opportunities like this or if you have attended/plan to attend any V-SIG events please sign up to be a member. Note: signing up as a member requires no time commitment what-so-ever. It's just helpful for us to know how many people are actually interested in receiving these kinds of updates instead of spamming all the classes.

 

SIGN UP HERE: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2TZDHDK

 

 

If you have any questions, would like to know more about these scholarship programs, or need help with contacting a supervisor for the research award, please do not hesitate to contact me here (pm) or at vsig[dot]toronto[at]gmail[dot]com