Professional Studies/Training Loans
A Study Loan is a private loan to cover fees, living costs or specific expenses (e.g. funding an elective). Repayments are deferred or reduce until after you graduate, and include…
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Planning your elective
For many students, an elective takes place in the final year of their medical degree. With the heavy workload that the final year entails, planning an elective should begin early…
Medical student loans
Student loans are government sponsored loans administered by the Student Loans Company (SLC). If you have to borrow money you should always take out the maximum student loan that you…
Borrowing money as a student
Unless you are particularly wealthy you’ll need to borrow money – twice as much money as students on non medical courses. That’s because you’re studying for more years and more…
List of charitable trusts
This page contains a list of charitable trusts that assist medical students. These are all independent of the RMBF, so please contact the relevant organisation directly for more information via…
Applying to charitable trusts
There are thousands of charitable trusts, or funders, that offer financial help to people, based on eligibility criteria including age, gender, religion or ethnicity, place of birth or residence or parental…
Essay competitions, awards and prizes
If you have a flair for essay writing, then look out for competitions run by the Royal Colleges and many other professional medical associations, usually to encourage interest in their…
Armed forces medical bursaries
The UK armed forces offer generous bursaries/cadetships for undergraduate medics during their studies. In exchange for this financial support, you are required to serve a minimum period in the forces…
Access Agreement Bursaries
An Access Agreement is a document setting out how a university or college charging higher fees intends to safeguard and promote fair access to higher education through its outreach work,…
Grants, bursaries and awards
NHS Bursaries are probably the most widely known, readily available and one of the most useful sources of financial support. However, there are a range of other types of bursaries,…