The DMAA has established a vested interest in deserving students:
Dr. F. Murray Fraser Studentship
To honour Dr. F. Murray Fraser by providing summer research projects in the
Department of Family Medicine or for students in the Bachelor of Medical Science
Programme.
Blauvelt Bursary Fund
Barbara L. Blauvelt was employed at Dalhousie University for 45 years having
worked with all but one of the Deans of Medicine. She was Senior Administrative
Officer in the Faculty of Medicine's Dean's Office until 1981 when she became
Executive Secretary of the Dalhousie Medical Alumni Association and Assistant
to the Dean of Medicine. She retired as Executive Secretary of the DMAA and
Assistant to the Dean of Medicine on August 31, 1992. An Entrance Bursary for
the Faculty of Medicine was established in honour of her.
The DMAA Entrance Scholarship
The purpose of this fund is to provide an entrance scholarship in the
Faculty of Medicine for an excellent student. The Scholarship Fund
again this year has provided scholarships to three students who will
enter medical school in 2008.
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L.B. MacPherson Award
A memorial fund was set up to honour the memory of Dr. L.B. McPherson by providing
funds to support the Lloyd B. McPherson Prize in Medical Biochemistry, as well
as the Lloyd B. McPherson Memorial Lecture.
Mary Koncovy Trust Fund
This fund was established to support a Book Fund to honour the late Mary Koncovy.
H.R. McKean Award
Dr. Harold Ross McKean was born in Toney Mills, Pictou County in 1910. He graduated
from Dalhousie University in 1934 with his M.D., C.M. and was the Gold Medal
Winner. Following postgraduate training in opthalmology and otolaryngology
in Edinburgh and service in the Canadian and British Armed Forces, he returned
to Truro where he practiced until 1984. To honour Dr. McKean this award was
established to provide an annual award for a fourth year medical student at
Dalhousie University.
Annie Hamilton Scholarship
Annie Hamilton was born on March 17, 1866 in Brookfield, Colchester County,
N.S. Prior to entering medical school she graduated from the Normal School
in Truro, and Pictou Academy where she received a gold medal. In 1894, she
graduated from Dalhousie College as a Doctor of Medicine and a Master of surgery,
the first woman graduate in Medicine in Nova Scotia. She set up a practice
among the poor and working classes in north end Halifax. In 1903 she went to
China to work as a teacher and medical missionary. She spent the rest of her
life in china, leaving only once in 1936 to visit her family. Dr. Annie Hamilton
died in Shanghai on December 21, 1941 at the age of seventy-five. To the end
of her life she was passionate about her medical work. In honour of her memory
an annual scholarship is provided to a second year medical student at Dalhousie
University.
The Weld-Kernohan Fund
This fund was established in memory of Elizabeth Weld and Mary Kernohan, graduates
of the Dalhousie Medical School class of '81 who served as travelling physicians
for the Grenfell Mission in Labrador and died tragically early in their careers.
The purpose of this fund is to provide financial support for a lecture in the
Mid Week Medicine Lecture Series offered by Continuing Medical Education and
the Dalhousie Medical Students Society.
The Gilchrist-Dickson Bursary
Dr. Annie Almira Anderson Dickson received her M.D. from Dalhousie University
in 1920. For many years she was prominent in public health work. She was provincial
convener for health in the Women's Institute, and the Home and School Federation
of Nova Scotia. She was associated with the Victorian Order of Nurses and the
Truro Hospital Auxiliary. She was Dean of Women and taught physiology at Mount
Allison University from 1949 - 1959 and on her retirement she was given an
honourary degree by the University. This bursary fund provides financial assistance
to a third year medical student.
The Wickwire Award
The Wickwire Award was established to honour the memory of Dr. J. C. Wickwire
by awarding an annual prize to a student in the final year of study towards
the degree of doctor of medicine.
H.Ralph Phillips Scholarship
Dr. H. Ralph Phillips graduated from Dalhousie University with the degree of
M.D., C.M. in 1950. Since that time he has been a family physician in Halifax
and a pioneer in the practice of Hypnosis in this city. The purpose of the
award is to establish a Scholarship for a Family Medicine Resident or a resident
in another related specialty which utilizes Hypnosis.
Alan Tarshis Scholarship
Dr. Alan Tarshis graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University
in 1976. He began an endowment fund to establish an Entrance Scholarship in
the Faculty of Medicine for an excellent student.
The Beth Rafuse Research Studentship
To honour the late Beth Rafuse family, friends and classmates provided funding
for a summer research scholarship in the Faculty of Medicine.
The Dr. Harold Barnett Prize in Physiology
A scholarship will be awarded annually to the student who has attained the
highest standing in Physiology.
The Class of '71 Memorial Bursary
This fund was begun by the MD Class of 1971, friends and family of deceased
classmates in order to honour all deceased members of the MD Class of 1971.
The purpose of the bursary is to provide financial assistance for a first or
second year medical student.
Campbell Memorial Fund
The purpose of this fund is to provide an entrance and continuing scholarship
to a student in the Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University
Embil Award for Clinical Research
This award was established by the Embil family in memory of Dr. Jaun A. Embil.
Dr. Embil was a member of the Dalhousie University Medical School for many
years. He was a Medical Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases consultant.
During his tenure at Dalhousie University he strove to encourage research in
Medicine and particularly in Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology amongst
the Medical Students. The goal of this award is to stimulate and encourage
interest and excellence in Infectious Diseases and Medical Research.
Roy Gold Award for Medical Journalism
Dr. Isadore Roy Gold was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia in 1915. He entered
Dalhousie University in 1931 where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in
1934 and his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1938. While at Dalhousie he suggested
that the students produce a medical journal. He felt that it was important
to produce an official publication of the Student Medical Society to promote
an interesting extra-curricular medical learning, to publish articles of regional
interest and value both to medical students and alumni, and to serve as a communications
link between Dalhousie medical students and the medical faculty. The Journal
was established in 1936 using Dalhousie Medical Students' Society money and
advertisement revenue as funding and with Isadore Roy Gold as editor. It was
the beginning of a journal that became the voice of undergraduate medical students
and the physicians of Nova Scotia. A fund was established to provide annual
support for the Dalhousie Medical Journal in memory of Dr. Isadore Roy Gold
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The Creighton Family Endowment
A rural summer studentship has been established through a generous bequest
from the estate of Edith M. Creighton BA '15. The studentship recognizes the
long and illustrious association of the Creighton family with Dalhousie. The
Creighton Fund will provide a stipend for a student selected for the Rural
Summer Preceptorship Program.
The Lourdes Embil Cardiology Prize
To stimulate and encourage interest in and excellence in Cardiovascular Diseases
and Medical Research by providing an annual prize to the student graduating
with a Doctor of Medicine Degree who has completed the best research project
in Cardiovascular Disease during his/her years in the degree program. '
Contact Info
For further information on these and other DMAA fundraising initiatives please
contact the DMAA Office.