This $8000 scholarship was established from funds donated by the Victorian Medical Insurance Agency and introduced to encourage and attract students to pursue an undergraduate honours degree in medical sciences.
The scholarship will assist financially disadvantaged students, who may not have had the opportunity to complete their degree without the scholarship, to gain a greater understanding of academic medicine whilst making their own contribution to the advancement of knowledge.
Applications for this scholarship (for 2025 commencement) are currently open and close on December 5th 2025, 4:30pm AEDT.
More information about the scholarship and eligibility is available here.
The application form is available here.
We are proud to be able to offer students from disadvantaged backgrounds this scholarship so they can intermit medicine to undertake the Bachelor of Medical Science (Honours) degree.
To be eligible, you need to be:
More information about the scholarship and eligibility is available here, while you can find the application form here.
Prof Harry Garlick was one of the founding fathers of the Monash University Medical School and an eminent physician.
His bequest sponsors a $1000 prize each year for the incoming BMedSc Honours student with the highest academic marks for entry into the program whose Main Supervisor is employed by, or has their Adjunct Appointment through, the Department of Medicine, in the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health.
Eligible recipients need to have completed at least Year 4/C of the Monash BMedSc/MD degree prior to starting BMedSc Honours.
You can find out more here.
In addition to the above medicine-focused honours scholarships, Monash offers a wide array of honours scholarships aimed to help you take the next step in your academic journey.
You can find out more about these scholarships by searching using the link below: https://www.study.monash/fees-scholarships/scholarships/find/honours-year-scholarships
More broadly, Monash maintains scholarships across a wide variety of categories to help attract the best, brightest, and diverse minds to help us meet the challenges of our age.
Find your scholarship by visiting the link below:
https://www.study.monash/fees-scholarships/scholarships/find
The Alfred Research Alliance Honours Scholarship is for students studying an Honours program on the Alfred campus, through the School of Translational Medicine, the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, or the Baker or Burnet institutes. Each scholarship is worth $6000: two are for any student enrolled full time in the Bachelor of Biomedical Science or the Bachelor Science Honours program, while the third is reserved for a Bachelor of Medical Science Honours student.
More information is available here.
Sir John Monash Scholarship for Achievement
The Monash Interdisciplinary Research Academy of Medical AI (MIRAMA) is a collaborative Honours initiative that brings together expertise from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (FMNHS), the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT), and the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FPPS). Designed for high-achieving students, MIRAMA provides a unique opportunity to undertake interdisciplinary research at the intersection of health, medicine, and artificial intelligence.
Through this initiative, Honours students will engage in innovative research projects that combine biomedical science, clinical and health research, artificial intelligence, data science, and digital technologies to address some of the most pressing challenges in healthcare. Projects may explore areas such as disease mechanisms, diagnostics, therapeutics, precision medicine, healthcare delivery, and emerging digital health solutions.
Working within multidisciplinary research teams, students will gain valuable experience applying advanced computational and analytical methods to real-world health challenges. The program is designed to foster both deep disciplinary knowledge and the cross-disciplinary skills needed to lead the next generation of AI-enabled health research and innovation.