Scholarships and Prizes

The Faculty of Medicine's role in preparing the next generation of medical professionals is greatly assisted through the ongoing support and generosity of our alumni and patrons. Their bequests and heartfelt donations toward over 70 scholarships and prizes for UQ Faculty of Medicine students rewards and supports our brightest and most deserving students.

For further information please contact the Scholarship and Awards Coordinator at med.prizes@uq.edu.au.

Visit the UQ Scholarships site.

Award name	Eligible cohort	Basis for award
Alan Van Tran and Min Ha Tran Indigenous Health Education Bursary	All Faculty	To support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to gain access to opportunities that enhance their education in health disciplines.
Randall Silcock Grant	MD 1-4	To support students studying Medicine by providing funding for students to present their research at a scientific conference.
Royal College of Pathologists Australia (RCPA) Scholarships	MD 1-4	Two scholarships are available: the first for an MD student and the second for an Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander or Maori Medical Student who submit the best application outlining a project in pathology.
Siggins Miller Scholarship	MD 1	Awarded to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander student based on financial need in the second semester of the year of award.
Pomfrey Medical Trust Scholarship	MD 1-4	Awarded to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander student based on financial need in the second semester of the year of award.
Medical Student Indigenous Scholarship	MD 1-4	Awarded to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander student based on financial need in the second semester of the year of award.
William Ivers Memorial Scholarship	MD 1-4	To support medical students who can demonstrate financial need.
Dr Helen Row-Zonta Rural Health Scholarship in Medicine	Female MD4 student undertaking placements at a health site in a Rural Area for a second consecutive year	To support equality of representation in both GPs and rural practitioners, as well as, to support and provide encouragement to women on this pathway.
Professor Frank Monsour Scholarship	MD 1-4	To support medical students who can demonstrate financial need.

Medical Students Financial Aid Scholarships

The Financial Aid Scholarships were established in 2020 and are comprised of named Scholarships, which aim to provide financial support to students studying at the Faculty of Medicine.

Named Scholarship	Eligible cohort	Basis for award
Dr David Perel Medical Scholarship	MD 1	To support medical students who can demonstrate financial need.
Professor Bryan Emmerson Medical Scholarship	MD 1	To support medical students who can demonstrate financial need.
Emmerson Family Medical Scholarship	MD 1	To support medical students who can demonstrate financial need.
T.V. Stubbs- Brown Medical Student Scholarship	MD 1-4	To support medical students who demonstrate an interest in surgery, in particular orthopaedic surgery, and who can demonstrate financial need.
Gough Family Scholarship for Medical Education	MD 1-4	To support domestic medical students who can demonstrate financial need.
Faculty of Medicine Medical Endowment Scholarship	MD 1-4	To support medical students who can demonstrate financial need and are in good academic standing.
Professor Victoria Atkinson Medical Student Scholarship	MD 1-4	To support medical students who can demonstrate financial need, with a preference for the scholarship to be awarded to a female applicant.
Joan Lawrence AM Scholarship	MD 1-4	To support medical students who can demonstrate financial need.
Frazer Family Foundation Scholarship in Medicine	MD 1-4	To support domestic medical students who can demonstrate financial need.
Drs Donald and Isobel Perry-Keene Family Scholarship	MD 1-4	To support domestic medical students who can demonstrate financial need, with a preference for the scholarship to be awarded to an applicant from the Bundaberg/Wide Bay area.
Otto and Joan Hirschfeld Scholarship in Medicine	MD 1-4	To support medical students who can demonstrate financial need through low socio-economic status.
Dr Charles Thelander Medicine Scholarship	MD 1-4	To support domestic medical students who can demonstrate financial need, with a preference for the scholarship to be awarded to an applicant from a Regional, Rural or Remote Area.
Clifford and Susan Crittenden Medical Scholarship	MD 1-4	To support domestic medical students who can demonstrate financial need.
Dr Nichola Davis Scholarship	MD 1-4	To support domestic medical students who can demonstrate financial need, with a preference for the scholarship to be awarded to an applicant from a Regional, Rural or Remote Area.
Manoharan Family Medical Scholarship	MD 1-4	To support medical students who can demonstrate financial need.
McColl Family Rural Medical Scholarship	MD 1-4	To support domestic medical students who can demonstrate financial need, with a preference for the scholarship to be awarded to an applicant from a Regional, Rural or Remote Area.
Crawford Family Medical Scholarship	MD 1-4	To support domestic medical students who can demonstrate financial need, with a preference for the scholarship to be awarded to an applicant from a Regional, Rural or Remote Area.
Randall Silcock Scholarship	MD 1-4	To support medical students who can demonstrate financial need.
Toowoomba Rural Health Scholarship	MD 2-4	To support Doctor of Medicine students to undertake studies at the Toowoomba Regional Clinical Unit for more than one year.
Rockhampton Rural Health Scholarship	MD 2-4	To support Doctor of Medicine students to undertake studies at the Rockhampton Regional Clinical Unit for more than one year.
Bundaberg Rural Health Scholarship	MD 2-4	To support Doctor of Medicine students to undertake studies at the Bundaberg Regional Clinical Unit for more than one year.

Doctor of Medicine research scholarships

William Nathaniel Robertson Scholarship	HDR intermitting/concurrent	To enable a student to undertake a research project as part of the requirements for the MD-MPhil or MD-PhD programs.
Douglas H.K. Lee Family Scholarships	HDR intermitting/concurrent	To enable a student to undertake a research project toward the degrees of MD-MPhil or MD-PhD.

Award name	Eligible cohort	Basis for award
Rural Doctors Association of Queensland Prize	MD 4	Best applicant interested in a career in rural medicine.
Ralph Doherty Prize	MD 4	Best applicant on the basis of demonstrated significant all-round contribution to the community, achievement in academic research contribution and personal qualities, including leadership potential.
Catherine Thorp-Cramb Prize in Doctors' Mental Health	MD 3-4	Best essay on the topic of Doctors’ mental health.
Eric W Peet Memorial Prize in Medical Ethics	MD 4	Best essay on medical ethics.
Charles Ferdinand Marks and Elizabeth Gray Marks Prize	HDR intermitting/concurrent	Best applicant on the basis of academic record, feasibility and expected benefits of research project.
The Pfizer Prize	MD 3	Best critical appraisal of published material on a topic in the field of pharmacology and therapeutics.
Harold Plant Memorial Prize	MD 4	Best applicant on the basis of academic, sporting, and character attributes.
Dr Paul Stuart McCarthy Prize	MD 4	Best applicant on the basis of integrity, UQMS participation, community service, and sport or adventure.
Karl Kessler Memorial Prize	MD 1-4	Best essay outlining experience while undertaking an elective in infectious diseases.
Sum, Wing and Leong Fong Prize in Radiology	MD 3-4	Highest scoring radiology-related research presentation

Award name	Eligible cohort	Basis for award
John Wienholt Memorial Prize	MD 1	Highest aggregated mark in the first attempt of MEDI7111 and MEDI7112
Dr Konrad Hirschfeld CBE Prize	MD 1	Highest aggregated results in Clinical Practice 1 and 2
Alumni Friends of UQ Indigenous Medicine Prize	MD 1	Highest aggregated results for first year MD courses who are of Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent
Emeritus Professor Dr Mary Mahoney AO Medicine Prize	MD 1	Highest aggregated results for first year MD courses
McGraw-Hill Book Prize	MD 2	Highest scores in the second year examinations
Alexander and Elizabeth Raff Memorial Scholarship	MD 2	Highest score in year 2 exams
Jean and Joyce Stobo Memorial Prize	MD 2	Highest Year 2 marks in the examinations for female student
Charles Mitford Lilley Memorial Prize	MD 3	Greatest merit in the surgery rotation. (Not in receipt of another Surgery prize)
H.J Windsor Prize	MD 3	Best perfomance in Year 3 surgery examinations
Herbert John Wilkinson Memorial Prize in Anatomy	MD 3	Best perfomance in Year 3 surgery rotation
The John Bostock Prize in Psychiatry	MD 3	Best perfomance in Year 3 mental health rotation
Neville G Sutton Prize in Surgery	MD 3	Best perfomance in Year 3 surgery rotation
RACGP Ben Adsett Memorial Prize	MD 3	Best perfomance in GP rotation
Raymond James Memorial Prize	MD 3	Best perfomance in Year 3 mental health rotation
Dr Mark Skinner Prize	MD 3	Highest GPA in Year 3 for a student who has undertaken a rotation at Greenslopes Clinical school
David AF Morgan Prize for Academic Improvement	MD 3	Most significant improvement between end of year GPA in year 1 to year 3
Dr Magdalene Brodie Memorial Prize	MD 3-4	The top two students in the Paediatrics & Child Health clinical rotation, based on academic achievement
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists Prize	MD 4	Best performance in anaesthetics
Australian Medical Association Memorial Prize	MD 4	Highest GPA in Years 3 and 4 of the program
Dr Elaine Katte Prize in Medicine	MD 4	Highest overall marks for the 4 years of the program
Elsie Butler Wilkinson Memorial Prize in Child Health	MD 4	Highest mark in the paediatrics and child health rotation.
Elsie Butler Wilkinson Memorial Prize in Obstetrics and Gynaecology	MD 4	Highest mark in the obstetrics and gynaecology rotation.
John F Dunkley Memorial Prize	MD 4	Best results in obstetrics, gynaecology and neonatology
John Rendle-Short Prize in Child Health	MD 4	Best results in paediatrics & child health
Lilian Cooper Prize	MD 4	Highest overall achievement (GPA) for the 4 years of the program.
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Women’s Health Prize	MD 4	Highest mark in the obstetrics and gynaecology rotation (not in receipt of another O&G prize)
Royal Australian and New Zealand college of Ophthalmologists Prize	MD 4	Best perfomanace in Y4 ophthalmology
William Nathaniel Robertson Prize	MD 4	Highest mark in year 4 OSCE
Dr Michael Reading Memorial Prize	MD 4	Highest mark in the paediatrics and child health rotation
Dr Morris Lewin Prize	MD4	Best performing student in the Obstetrics/Gynaecology course who comes from a rural/regional area and has completed their Obstetrics/Gynaecology placement in a rural/regional area.
Peters Family Medical Prize	MD4	Students from a rural background with the highest achievement in the MD program.