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John Snow Anaesthesia Intercalated Awards 2024

Applications are open for the 2024 John Snow Awards for intercalating medical students studying on Bachelors or Masters degree programmes

The deadline for the 2024 round is 5pm on Tuesday 30 April 2024

Awards of £2,000 per student are available from each of these NIAA partners

  • Association of Anaesthetists/Anaesthesia

  • British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA)/Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA)

  • Anaesthetic Research Society (ARS)

  • Neuro Anaesthesia & Critical Care Society (NACCS)

Full submission details are included in the application form below.

We do accept applications for projects which may have already started - providing this was during the current academic year - and continue to encourage applications from students at institutions in Wales and Ireland (both RoI and NI).

Once the deadline has passed all received applications will be sent for peer review, and we will endeavour to contact all applicants and their supervisors with a decision by the end of June 2024.

Background and information

  • The scheme has been designed to encourage medical student interest in anaesthesia and its related disciplines

  • Each partner is offering awards of £2,000 to each successful student

  • An institution can submit a maximum of four applications in any given year, so we encourage some coordination between supervisors

  • Awards go to the student and not the supervisor/institution, and are meant to contribute to student’s personal/living costs. Project running costs are to be funded by the supervisor/institution

  • The awards are intended for students who are studying as part of a programme of work leading towards a registered medical qualification. Therefore, students of intercalated Bachelors or Masters degrees are eligible to apply. Applications from students undertaking either programme of study will be reviewed in parallel.

  • Assessment criteria: (1) quality of the student, (2) quality of the research project, and (3) supervisor and teaching environment. We do not typically provide detailed feedback to applicants.

  • Applications can be submitted for projects that have already commenced during the current academic year. In these cases, the project information required on the application form should focus only on the research proposal rather than the results.

  • Funding should be acknowledged in any resulting publications (i.e. “funded by the Association of Anaesthetists/Anaesthesia, ARS, BJA/RCoA, NACCS [as appropriate] via the NIAA,” as indicated in the award letter), and a final report will be required at the end of the project/within a year of the award (whichever is sooner).

  • Depending on uptake, students that are successfully awarded may be asked to present their work at a meeting of any of the funding partners.

These awards are annual, so if your department misses the deadline for this year please do consider applying in the following year.

Closing date for applications: 5pm, Tuesday 30 April 2024