Master's or Doctoral Training for Applicants with a Professional Degree

Julie Ross, B.Sc.
(514) 873-2114
Ext. 282

Lyse Bourbonnais
(514) 873-2114
Ext. 224

Eligible applicants

-Applicants with a professional university degree in a health sciences discipline and a valid licence to practise in Québec

-Resident physicians (recognized by Quebec’s Collège des Médecins) wishing to interrupt clinical training to undertake research training

-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

Not eligible: Those who hold an academic position, unless they take unpaid leave for the duration of the training award. An official letter confirming their employment status for the period and stating that they will resume their position once the training is completed should be provided by the employer.

Terms and conditions

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

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

-Must devote at least 75% of his/her time to research and training activities

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 and Doctoral Training for Applicants with a Professional Degree

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 the FRSQ awards, during the past four years

-Proof of membership in a professional corporation and of licence to practise in Québec, submitted by June 30, 2010, and each subsequent year, for the duration of the award

-Confirmations from publishers regarding manuscripts submitted and agreement to publish

-Certified copy of permanent resident card, if applicable, submitted by June 30, 2010

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 and Doctoral Training for Applicants with a Professional Degree

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 written agreement to supervise the awardee

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

Master's and Doctoral Training for Applicants with a Professional Degree

Effective starting date

Between April 1 and September 30, 2010

Master's award

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

Awardees continuing on to doctoral studies may use any remaining portion of their Master's award toward 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.

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 and Doctoral Training for Applicants with a Professional Degree

Amount

$25,024 - $39,323/year, depending on the year the professional degree was earned

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 and Doctoral Training for Applicants with a Professional Degree

Authorized paid work

The awardee may supplement his/her income through professional activities, provided that he/she devotes at least 75% of his/her time to research or research training and that the source of the income is not a FRSQ grant.

Insitution or supervisor

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

Concurrent funding

See Common Rules and Regulations, art. 6.13

Master's and Doctoral Training for Applicants with a Professional Degree

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 internship 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 and Doctoral Training for Applicants with a Professional Degree

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 and Doctoral Training for Applicants with a Professional Degree

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 and Doctoral Training for Applicants with a Professional Degree

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

-requirement regarding basic training in research ethics

Master's and Doctoral Training for Applicants with a Professional Degree

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).

Child health
(Ph.D. only)

Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Program (CCHCSP)
(Applicant must submit also an application to the CCHCSP.)

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

Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada (CCFC)

Hypertension
(Ph.D. only)

Société québécoise d’hypertension artérielle (SQHA)

Infectious diseases and AIDS

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

Kidney health
(Ph.D. only)

The Kidney Foundation of Canada - KRESCENT Research Program
(Kidney Research Scientist Core Education and National Training)

(The applicant must also submit an application to the KRESCENT Program.)

Canadian Society of Nephrology

Nursing
(Ph.D. only)

FERASI Centre

Optimal drug use

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

Trauma

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)