Canada/Provincial Student Loans Documents

Documents requiring the Educational Institution's (University of Manitoba) completion may be brought to P 122, the Student Affairs - Medicine office for:

• confirmation of enrolment
• official's signature
• correction of expired date (stale dated)

Note: The Student Affairs - Medicine office has a limited number of Provincial and Schedule 2 forms to keep your student loan in interest free status. This document is only required if a student is continuing in full time studies but has not applied for a student loan in that academic calendar year; or at the request of the government agency.

Bursaries 

There are a number of bursary opportunities available to our students, each having set criteria and procesing requirements.

There are two main Bursary opportunities available for qualifying MD students offered annually in September:

• University of Manitoba General Bursary Application*(PAEP & MD students)
• Faculty of Medicine Bursary Application* (MD students only)

*Beginning in 2011/12 The University of Manitoba General Bursary applicaiton and the Faculty of Medicine Bursary applications will be combined and accessible through an online process ONLY.  NEW online application available late August annually

Bursary Application Deadline: 1st business day in OCTOBER annually

Other Special Bursary opportunities:

• University of Manitoba - Special Bursaries (Undergrad/Graduate/Aboriginal students)
         - A complete list of all University of Manitoba bursary opportunities through the main campus Financial Aid & Awards office
• External
         - Student Affairs (Medicine) currently sends e-mail notices of external bursary opportunities as we become aware of them. 

Aboriginal students may also be able to access bursary funding through the following organizations:

• Centre for Aborigial Health Education
         - Please contact Amanda Penzick  at penzick@cc.umanitoba.ca or 789-3511 for further details on bursary opportunites for Aboriginal students
• Centre for Aboriginal Health Research
  Phone: (204) 789-3250
  Fax: (204) 975-7783
  E-Mail: CAHR@umanitoba.ca 

Elective Travel Bursaries

Med III students have an opportunity to apply for additional elective travel support in June the year they will enter into Med IV in the fall. The support be request may be for specific or generalized funding to supplement elective travel expenses during the upcoming academic session. The number of bursaries granted is limited to the amount of funding available and the number of applications received. If there is a surplus of applications, priority for funding will be given to students who have previously demonstrated financial need through their Faculty Bursary application.

Elective Travel Bursary Application deadline: June 15 annually

Elective Travel Application Fund Request form

Conference/Travel Bursaries

Undergraduate Medical Education students planning to attend a National or International conference may be eligible to receive funding towards this experience once during their four years of medical school training to a maximum of $750. Applicants may be attending the confernce to present a paper, poster or simply for enrichment purposes. The Conference/Travel Bursary support is allocated on a first come first serve basis, as long as financial resources remain available, with a February 20 cut off each academic year to allow processing prior to the March 31 fiscal year end. Priority is given to: (1) students who are presenting a paper/poster; (2) those who have demonstrated financial need; (3) are attending for enrichment purposes only.

NOTE: Each application year begins April 1 and ends on March 31 of the following year. Applications received on/before the Februay 20 deadline for conferences that occur within this timeframe will be considered for funding within that timeframe.

(i.e) April 1, 2011 - March 31, 2012 is one application year.
Applications for attendance at a conference in April 1, 2012 or later do not fall into the example application inake period. Funding for conferences April 1, 2012 or later will be given consideration in the following intake period of April 1, 2012 - March 31, 2013, as long as the application is received on/before February 20, 2013 for this example.

Conference/Travel Bursary application

Emergency Loan/Bursary Support

There are potentially three sources of emergency support to students in sudden, unforseen financial crisis: (1) Main campus offers an Emergency Loan  program;  (2) candidates eligible for the Emergency Loan may receive an emergency bursary award, in addition to the loan, at the discretion of the Awards office (no application required); (3) while the Faculy of Medicine offers modest bursary support as a secondary source.

Students are encouraged to contact the Student Affairs - Medicine office 789-3213 for additional information on accessing emergency funds, should the need arise. All requests striclty confidential.

_{Revised April 10, 2012}