Scholarships Overview

Welcome to the CAWC Scholarship section!

The Canadian Association of Wound Care is dedicated to the advancement of wound care in Canada by co-coordinating a collaborative, interdisciplinary effort among individuals and organizations involved with wound caring. The CAWC offers educational and research scholarships worth up to $2500 each, which will serve to support educational and research initiatives to promote best practice and improve patient care within the wound care community.

The CAWC defines a scholarship as an amount of money that is given to an individual to support him/her while pursuing further education.  A grant is an amount of money given to an individual to support a project (Education or Research).

With the exception of applicants for the International Award, all applicants must be Canadian citizens and CAWC members in good standing for at least one year at the time of application.  If you are not currently a member and wish to apply in the future for a scholarship or grant please follow the link to the membership page.

The three different categories of scholarships offered by the CAWC are:

1. Educational Scholarships available to CAWC members resident in Canada: 

• The Dr. Warren L. Rottman Education Scholarship sponsored by 3M Canada Inc.

Applicants for this scholarship should be novices in wound care seeking to increase knowledge through attending a conference or a course.

• The Mölnlycke Health Care Educational Scholarship sponsored by Mölnlycke Health Care

Applicants for this scholarship should be health-care professionals pursuing studies at the doctorate level at a recognized Canadian university. Preference will be given to applicants pursuing work in a nursing discipline.

• The Cathy Harley Educational Grant in Memory of Aldora Harder and Cathy Foster sponsored by CAWC

Applicants for this scholarship should have some experience in wound care and be looking for educational settings that will provide opportunities to develop themselves as wound-care enablers/knowledge brokers in their work environment.

• The Elise Sørensen RN Memorial Scholarship sponsored by Coloplast

Applicants for this scholarship should have some experience in wound care and be looking for educational settings that will provide opportunities to develop themselves as wound-care enablers/knowledge brokers in their work environment.

• Heather L. Orsted Scholarship for Team Development sponsored by the CAWC

This scholarship is for an interdisciplinary team of wound care providers (e.g, RN & PT; PT and RD) to apply to attend the IIWCC.

• The T.J. Smith Global Wound Academy Award, sponsored by Smith & Nephew

This scholarship is for an individual who is interested in attending a wound-care conference or course with a focus on disseminating wound-care education to his/her practice environment.

• ConvaTec Scholarship for Advancing Wound-care Education sponsored by ConvaTec

This scholarship is awarded to a health-care professional dedicated to furthering wound-care education.

• Dr. Louis C. Argenta Research Scholarship sponsored by KCI Medical Canada, Inc. is dedicated to advancing advancing wound-care knowledge and practice in Canada through a team approach.

2. Educational Scholarships available to residents of countries other than Canada:

• R. Gary Sibbald International Scholarship sponsored by the CAWC

This scholarship provides support for a health-care professional from outside Canada to attend the CAWC conference or the IIWCC program.

3. Research Scholarships:

• CAWC Research Scholarship

This scholarship is intended to be used to develop/continue a research project that is focused on advancing wound-care practices across the continuum of care.

• The Healthpoint Research Scholarship sponsored by Healthpoint Canada

This scholarship will provide the researcher with the opportunity to develop/continue a project evaluating the effectiveness of advanced wound-care practices within the clinical environment.

To continue on to the application page, you will first need to read the description and terms and conditions pages.

Please contact us at: info@cawc.net.

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Last modified: March 3, 2008