New undergraduate bursary to help financially needy NUS Medicine students
Published: 02 Feb 2015
A new medical undergraduate bursary will be available from the new academic year beginning August 2015. This new bursary will help pay for the studies of financially needy student at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.
The OncoCare Medical Bursary is established by the OncoCare Cancer Centre, which has pledged a sum of $750,000 over five years. Its founding director – consultant medical oncologist Dr Tay Miah Hiang, is an NUS Medicine alumnus (Class of 1992) and was also an undergraduate bursary recipient.
“We are a Singaporean medical group and we want to do something special in this 50th year of our country’s celebrations. We also want to celebrate the official opening of our third OncoCare branch at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Orchard on 7 February 2015. This bursary is a meaningful way for us to do so, and we hope the students who are helped by this will in turn be inspired and encouraged, and remember to step forward to help those less fortunate one day,” said Dr Tay.
Said Associate Professor Yeoh Khay Guan, the Dean of the School, “Our students are talented, motivated and totally committed to becoming the best doctors that they can be. While many are supported by their families, we have a number of deserving students who struggle with worries over finances. A bursary takes the load off their young shoulders and allows them to focus on their studies, and we are very grateful to OncoCare Cancer Centre and our other donors for their kindness and generosity.”
Donors who would like to make a gift may contact Dean’s Office at tel: 6772 3737 or email fundraising@nuhs.edu.sg.
