Obstetrics and Gynaecology Graduate Scholarships (OGGS)

The scholarships are for registered Western University full-time students entering any year of their graduate training (i.e. MSc or PhD) during the typical residency period for their degree (i.e. 2 years MSc; 4 years PhD). You are eligible to apply for the scholarship if you are accepted for Masters or PhD studies supervised by a faculty member primarily or cross-appointed to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Western University; preference will be given to those who are supervised by faculty members primarily appointed to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Western University.

You are not eligible if you already have held:
• an OGGS award
• if you hold external competitive personal awards, or
• are successful in obtaining an external competitive award during the tenure of the OGGS scholarship (for
example: OGS, NSERC, CIHR, CCSRI, Genesis Foundation, Heart and Stroke, Lung Association, March of Dimes, etc.).

All scholarship holders must maintain a minimum of an 80% average on all course work to be eligible for the scholarship and to maintain the scholarship funding once awarded.

If you receive an Obstetrics and Gynaecology Graduate Scholarship (OGGS), you must comply with the following conditions:

1) You must maintain full-time registration in your graduate program during the tenure of the scholarship. If you withdraw from the approved program, transfer to part-time, fail to complete the year or graduate during the tenure of the scholarship, the Research and Finance Committees in the Department must be notified immediately.

2) You must apply for external awards for which you are eligible. Should you receive an offer of an external scholarship or studentship, you are required to notify the Departmental Research and Finance Committees before taking any action on the offer.

3) An acknowledgement of funding support from this program must be included in any publications directly resulting from the candidates work during the funding period.

4) It is the intent of this program to enrich the research activities throughout the department. It is therefore expected that more than one scholarship awarded in a single laboratory, or that scholarships being awarded to the same laboratory in subsequent years will be unusual occurrences. These will represent important factors affecting the review process and would only be supported due to unusual circumstances such as limited applications in each year or due to an unusually high level of excellence displayed by the candidates or the proposed research programs.

5) It is an expectation that the recipient of this award will also present at our Annual Paul Harding Research Awards Day.

6) The department reserves the right not to award scholarships in any given year.

To be considered for the OGGS scholarship, the application must be submitted to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology on or before the deadline.

Applicant must provide the supervisor:


The full Trainee CV outlining; meeting presentations, abstracts, posters, publications, additional awards received, and relevant significant extracurricular, community, and leadership activities.

Ensure full citations (i.e. list all authors, conference/meeting name, location, date).

If you have a paper submitted but not accepted, or submitted and in press, a letter of receipt or acceptance of the manuscript from the publisher must be provided.

Do not include manuscripts in preparation.

Official transcripts of all grades obtained at any post-secondary institution.

Supervisor must email the following as one document:

Application document
Application CV and official transcripts
Supervisor Letter of Support
Referee Letter of Support
Brief Supervisor CV highlighting your research productivity and trainee supervision (max 5 pages)
 

**Please do not send documentation other than that required**

OGGS applications will be reviewed and ranked by the Dept Research Committee. The decision to fund will be made by the Dept Finance Committee.

Supervisors of applicants that sit on the Research Committee will not participate in the review process for that year.

Results will be communicated to all applicants (successful and unsuccessful) and their supervisors.

All applications will be assessed based on the following criteria. The weighting for each component will vary between MSc, and PhD students due to the differences in experience and productivity between these groups of trainees as follows:

Each application will be assigned a numerical score based upon the above criteria and weightings and the applicants ranked based upon their scores.