Dr Allan Bennie Wilson Memorial Fund [F8049]

A gift of $5000 having been made to The University of Western Australia for the establishment of a fund to be called the Dr Allan Bennie Wilson Memorial Fund for the support of research in general practice and to encourage medical undergraduates to undertake research in this area, the fund is established and is administered in accordance with the following regulations.

1. The fund is called the Dr Allan Bennie Wilson Memorial Fund.

2. The income from the fund after capitalisation, in accordance with Senate policy, is used to provide annually a grant-in-aid to a student for a general practice research project undertaken either as part of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Medical Science or as a discrete project during a long vacation.

3. Only projects proposed by undergraduate medical students who have successfully completed the Level 4 units of the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery course are considered for the grant-in-aid.

4. The grant-in-aid is awarded by the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences on the recommendation of the Professor of General Practice or nominee(s).

5. Both the nature of the projects proposed and the ability of their proposers to complete them successfully are the major consideration in deciding which is to be awarded a grant-in-aid.

6. The availability of the grant-in-aid is advertised to Western Australian medical students each year and applications must be received by a date set in the year preceding that for which the award is sought.

7. Any thesis or publication resulting from research under a grant-in-aid must acknowledge the assistance of the fund.

8. If in any year there is no project judged worthy of a grant- in-aid, the money available is capitalised, provided that, at the discretion of the Professor of General Practice, it may be used together with the sum available in a following year.