Master's or Doctoral Training

Eve Gamache
(514) 873-2114
Ext. 282

Christiane Jeannotte
(514) 873-2114
Ext. 238

Eligible applicants

-Applicants with a university undergraduate or Master's degree

Health professionals with a valid licence to practise in Québec must apply to one or other of the following award programs:

Master's and Doctoral Training for Applicants With a Professional Degree Professional Postgraduate Training (Fellowship)

-Canadian citizens or permanent residents domiciled in Québec (as defined in the Common Rules and Regulations, art. 1.1), on the date the award becomes effective, or by June 30, 2008

Terms and conditions

-Must be enrolled in a full-time Master's or doctoral program as of September 30, 2008.

-Master's training awards: At the time of applying, the applicant must have earned a grade point average of B+, or the equivalent, in university undergraduate studies.

-Must submit a health research project and be supervised by an independent investigator (as defined in the Common Rules and Regulations, art. 1.2).

Master's or Doctoral Training

e-documents

Please make sure to transmit your e-documents to the FRSQ.

Applicant

-Application form entitled Bourses de formation

Research supervisor (and co-supervisor, if applicable)

-Canadian Common CV (full CV)

-Form entitled Section du directeur ou codirecteur / Annexe aux bourses de formation

Paper documents

The post office stamp or fax transmission date is proof of the document filing date.

Mailing address

FRSQ
500, Sherbrooke St. West
Suite 800
Montreal (Québec)
H3A 3C6

Applicant

-Form entitled Calcul de l'admissibilité aux programmes de bourses (available in the electronic application form entitled Bourses de formation)

-Official academic transcripts from the registrar's office for all university courses taken, whether completed or not

-Copies of award notices received, other than FRSQ awards, during the past four years

-Confirmations from publishers regarding manuscripts submitted and agreement to publish

-Certified copy of permanent resident card, if applicable

Application update

Articles in journals with peer-review committees may be updated until November 30, 2007.

Confirmation

Applicant will receive e-mail confirmation of receipt of application, including notice of eligibility, by latest December.

Master's or Doctoral Training

Choice of training location

Applicants must be enrolled full-time in a Master's or doctoral program in a recognized Canadian or foreign university.

Change of training location

Awardees wishing to change their training location must send the FRSQ a written request detailing the reasons for the change and describing the new research project.

The new research supervisor must

-provide the FRSQ with a written agreement to supervise the awardee

-send the FRSQ a paper copy of his/her Canadian Common CV

Master's or Doctoral Training

Effective starting date

Between April 1, 2008 and September 30, 2008

Master's award

2 years or until completion of Master's studies, whichever comes first

Applicants continuing on to doctoral studies may use any remaining portion of their Master's award towards those studies.

Doctoral award

3 years or upon termination of doctoral studies, the shorter of the two, if the candidate was registered in the doctoral program for 2 years or less on April 30, 2008

2 years or upon termination of doctoral studies, the shorter of the two, if the candidate was registered in the doctoral program for 3 years or less on April 30, 2008

Applicants undertaking doctoral studies immediately following a bachelor's degree must first apply to the Master's Training competition, provided they are eligible.

Parental leave

Awardees are entitled to a maximum of 6 months of paid parental leave (maternity, paternity or adoption), in which case the duration of the award will be extended by a maximum of 6 months. If both parents are awardees, only one of them is entitled to paid parental leave.

An applicant who wishes to take parental leave must have held the award for at least 4 months, unless he or she is already receiving an award from the FRSQ.

Awardees must give the FRSQ written notice of their intention to take parental leave, accompanied by a statement from their research director confirming that their training is being suspended for parental leave.

The paternity leave cannot begin before the first week of the child’s birth. The awardee must attach a copy of the birth certificate to his application.

Sick leave

The awardee may defer the award in case of serious illness (his or her own or the illness of a close family member) upon presentation of a medical certificate that includes the precise length of leave prescribed by the physician. Payments will be suspended during that period.

Master's or Doctoral Training

Master's award

$ 15 000/year

Awardees who continue on to doctoral studies without having used all the instalments of their Master's award may transfer the remaining instalments to their doctoral studies.

Doctoral award

$20 000/year

Administration

The awards are paid in instalments at the applicant's training location.

Income Tax

The awardee is responsible for paying the income tax due on amounts received from the FRSQ. No taxes are withheld at source by the FRSQ on amounts disbursed during the tax year in question.

The date the amount is granted determines the year in which the awardee must declare the amounts received as income for personal tax calculations.

Revenue Canada's T4A form and Revenue Québec's form 1 are sent to the awardee's mailing address (the one shown in the candidate’s module /module du candidat) in February of the following year of taxation.

The details provided in this form are for information purposes only. The FRSQ is not responsible for the validity of the information given about income tax.

Revenue Québec
These awards are not taxable.

Revenue Canada
These awards are taxable. However, when a study program entitles the individual to claim the education tax credit, the award is no longer taxable.

Parental leave

See Duration of award

Master's or Doctoral Training

Authorized paid work

Maximum of 150 hours/session (considered equivalent to 45 hours of teaching)

Requires the research supervisor's permission and the work must not interfere with the awardees’ research activities

Institution or supervisor

The awardee may accept additional funds from the institution or his/her research supervisor.

Concurrent funding

See Common Rules and Regulations, art. 6.13

Training period abroad (PhD)

FRSQ Doctoral Training awardees who are studying in a Québec university and who wish to do research training in a scientific environment outside Quebec may apply to the FRSQ for additional funding. This period of training abroad must be approved by the applicant’s research supervisor and complement his/her research program.

Application deadlines

January 15, May 15 and September 15, 2008
for decisions to be announced in March, July and November 2008

Required documents

-Application form, accompanied by a letter of support from the Québec research supervisor

-Attestation from the host institution that it accepts the applicant, with a description of the his/her research activities and the supervision to be provided

Review criteria

-Quality of project proposal and its relevance to the applicant’s training program

-Quality of training environment

-Feasibility of achieving the training objectives within the proposed time frame

Master's or Doctoral Training

Process

All applications are reviewed by committees of experts representing various disciplines and institutions.

Criteria

Academic record

-Excellence of academic record

-Awards

-Honours and distinctions

Aptitudes and experience

-Lectures and poster presentations

-Publications

-Research training programs and experience in research

Research project

-Clear, concise background for research problem

-Clarity and agreement between hypotheses and objectives

-Relevant methods and analysis

-Originality of project and contribution to the advancement of knowledge

Training environment

-Justification of the choice of the candidate

-Quality of supervisor's publication record

-Quality of supervisor's student training record

Master's or Doctoral Training

In accepting this award, the awardee agrees to observe the Common Rules and Regulations, as well as the terms and conditions stipulated in this Program Description.

The award will be revoked if the awardee fails to observe these rules.

The awardee must notify the FRSQ of his/her acceptance of the award within 30 days of receiving the offer.

Failure to give notice of acceptance will be regarded as refusal of the award.

The awardee agrees to provide official proof of enrolment from the Registrar's Office at the start of each academic year.

Master's or Doctoral Training

The research supervisor agrees to oversee the awardee’s work and to provide the material and financial resources required for the research project.

Master's or Doctoral Training

-New criteria for determining eligibility

Master's or Doctoral Training

Developmental disabilities and pervasive developmental disorders
(Ph.D. only)

Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC)

Infectious diseases and AIDS

Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (MSSS) – Service de lutte contre les infections transmissibles sexuellement et par le sang (SLITSS)

Pharmacoeconomics

Conseil du médicament

Transfusion medicine and biovigilance

Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (MSSS) - Direction de la prévention clinique et de la biovigilance

Prevention of chronic diseases

Fondation Lucie et André Chagnon

Traumatology

Association des établissements de réadaptation en déficiences physiques (AÉRDPQ)

Association des hôpitaux du Québec (AHQ)

Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ)

Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health (Ph.D. only)

Fondation des maladies du cœur du Québec

Alzheimer's disease (Ph.D. only)

Alzheimer Society of Canada