July 23rd, 2017

Barts Guild is delighted to announce the establishment of the ‘Barts Guild Elective Grants’ to support medical students from Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.

These grants are intended to support a medical student, who would be unable to financially support it by other means, undertake a ‘medical elective’. An elective is time allocated in the medical degree for students to explore an area of interest, commonly an experience in a healthcare system abroad.

The ‘Barts Guild Elective Grants’ were made possible by the generous donation of the Wainwright family, in memory of Dr Laurence Cartledge. Dr Cartledge was house-surgeon in the Ophthalmology department at Barts until his untimely death in 1956, aged 43. The Wainwrights report how Dr Cartledge himself would not have been able to study medicine if it was not for similar grants and support.