Irene Eckersall Bursary Fund for Women in Medicine

Award created thanks to the generosity of Irene Eckersall

Award Overview

Value of the award:
$1,000
Number of awards:
1
Award frequency:
Annual
Level or program of study:
MD
Application Type:
Online Scholarship and Bursaries portal, accessible via uoZone.
Application Deadline:
November 2
Renewable:
No

Purpose of this Award

Financially support women students in the MD program at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ottawa.

Eligibility Criteria

The candidate must:

  1. be a woman
  2. be a Canadian citizen, a permanent resident, a person with the protected/refugee status or an international student
  3. be registered as a full-time undergraduate student in the MD program at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ottawa
  4. demonstrate financial need, as determined by the Financial Aid and Awards Service of the University of Ottawa

How to Apply

Multiple Awards Program

To be considered for this award, candidates must apply to Multiple Financial Need Bursaries - MD Program (99931).

Applications must be submitted in the Online Scholarship and Bursaries portal, accessible via uoZone, and must include:

  1. the Financial Questionnaire

About this Award

Irene was born in London in 1931. She survived polio and a wartime childhood and went on to lead a colorful life in England and in Canada, where she passed away in 2014. Irene herself had not had access to a university education, but had a keen intelligence and believed very strongly in education for women. This was something which could not be taken for granted in her lifetime, and even now is denied to many women in other parts of the world and even here in Canada, at times.

Most urgently, Irene felt a desire to enable at least some few more women in Canada to achieve high educational goals in the face of financial hardship. She chose the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Medicine for this bursary for several reasons, but especially because her life was quite happy during her time in Ottawa and because she felt proud of her daughter, Dr Clarissa Wallace, having qualified in Medicine in 1983.