Travelling  Fellowships

A sum of £1,000 is allocated each year by the British Nuclear Medicine Society for the provision of Travelling Fellowships. The aim is to promote the development of nuclear medicine by allowing individuals to visit, and to experience aspects of clinical nuclear medicine in departments of nuclear medicine in the United Kingdom or overseas. These awards are open to ‘junior’ staff only from all disciplines within nuclear medicine, provided they are currently Full Members of the British Nuclear Medicine Society. Particular consideration will be given to those applicants who can demonstrate an established interest in the chosen subject. The Fellowships will be awarded by the Council of the British Nuclear Medicine Society and will be announced at the Annual General Meeting.

Definition of junior staff:

a) Medical, etc.- not holding a consultant or equivalent appointment;

b) Clinical scientists - below (NHS) Principal (B17) or C grade, or equivalent;

c) Academic staff - below Senior Lecturer or equivalent research staff grade;

d) Pharmacist - below (NHS) grade F or equivalent;

e) Technologists, Radiographers, Nurses - any grade

Membership of the Society must have been held for at least one complete year before the application is made.  The advertisement for the year’s Fellowships is normally made towards the end of the preceding year.  For eligibility, members should have paid the subscriptions due in the October of that year, and of the year before, as a minimum.  Thus, for the 2000 awards, subscriptions due in October 1998 and 1999 should have been paid.

Details required from the applicant are:

a)  One page detailing the proposed visit, its purpose and a description of what the individual expects to gain from it;

b) Details and justification of the expenses sought;

c)  A letter of support from the Head or a senior member of the employment department;

d) Confirmation from the department to which the visit is intended, that this is acceptable or agreed.

Applications should be made in writing before 31st December to the Secretary, British Nuclear Medicine Society, Regent House, 291, Kirkdale, London SE26 4QD.