Master's or Doctoral Training

Julie Ross, B.Sc.
(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, 2010

Terms and conditions

-Must be enrolled in a full-time Master's or doctoral program as of September 30, 2010.

-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).

Basic training in research ethics

Basic training in research ethics is compulsory for all FRSQ awardees when their research project involves human subjects.

The term "research project involving human subjects" applies when the research project involves:

-living human subjects

-cadavers, human remains, tissues, biological fluids, gametes, embryos or fetuses, cells or genetic materials

-personal information on file. Personal information is defined as information that enables a person to be identified.

This basic training consists of successful completion of Levels 1 and 3 of the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux On-line Tutorial in Research Ethics.

Awardees must complete this basic training within a year of receipt of a positive response concerning the FRSQ award.

FRSQ encourages awardees to obtain, when possible, one-credit research ethics training in addition to the compulsory basic training in research ethics.

Master's or Doctoral Training

e-documents

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

Applicant

-Canadian Common CV (full CV)

-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 all award notices received, including 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

The post office stamp, fax or e-mail transmission date is proof of the document filing date.

Articles in journals with peer-review committees may be updated until November 30, 2009.

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, 2010 and September 30, 2010

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, 2010

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, 2010

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.

Parental leave

See Duration of award

Master's or Doctoral Training

Authorized paid work

Awardees may accept a teaching load of 45 hours per session or a job that does not represent more than 150 hours of remunerated work per session, provided their director is in agreement and that this work does not interfere with their 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

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

-Distinctions

Aptitudes and experience

-Lectures and presentations

-Publications

-Research projects and research training programs

Research project

-Clear, concise background for research problem

-Clarity and agreement between hypotheses and objectives

-Relevant methods and analysis

-Feasibility

-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 related to student training record

Master's or Doctoral Training

In accepting this award, the awardee agrees to observe the Common Rules and Regulations, the Policy regarding open access to published research outputs 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

-Required documents - Applicant: Canadian Common CV (full CV)

-requirement regarding basic training in research ethics

Master's or Doctoral Training

FRSQ offers a certain number of awards in collaboration with its partners. The portion of financing from the FRSQ and the partner respectively, as well as other funding features such as the duration of the award and renewal options, if any, may vary according to the agreement entered into with each partner.

FRSQ and the partner jointly select the applicants eligible for FRSQ-partner sourced funding from among the applicants:

1) involved in research in the fields targeted by the partnership agreement; and

2) who obtain a passing score further to the review by a committee of experts or peers.

Selection of the applicants on the basis of their field of research occurs using the keywords indicated in the application form under the following sections: “titre” (title), “mots clés” (keywords), “domaines de recherche” (fields of research), and “objets de recherche” (research subjects).

Alzheimer's disease (Ph.D. only)

Alzheimer Society of Canada
(Applicant must alos submit an application to the Alzheimer Society of Canada.)

Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health (Ph.D. only)

Fondation des maladies du cœur du Québec

Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
(Ph.D. only)

Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada (CCFC)

Environmental, cultural and social factors to prevent obesity-related chronic diseases
(Ph.D. only)

Centre de recherche en prévention de l'obésité (CRPO)

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

Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec (MSSS)

Hypertension
(Ph.D. only)

Société québécoise d’hypertension artérielle (SQHA)

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)

Nursing
(Ph.D. only)

FERASI Centre

Optimal drug use

Conseil du médicament

Social and psychosocial aspects of sexually transmitted infections and blood-borne infections

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

Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux

Transfusion medicine and biovigilance

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

Trauma
(Ph.D. only)

Consortium pour le développement de la recherche en traumatologie

-Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (MSSS)

-Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ)

-Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST)

-Provincial Rehabilitation Research Network (REPAR)

-Association québécoise d’établissements de santé et des services sociaux (AQESSS)

-Quebec Association of Rehabilitation Establishments for the Physically Impaired (AERDPQ)