Scholarships for meetings on simulation in medicine

The medical school is offering scholarships to health-care professionals and researchers interested in attending meetings on simulation in medicine.

The Center for Immersive and Simulation-based Learning will award as many as 10 scholarships of up to $1,000 to medical school and associated faculty to attend one of several conferences. Scholarship may be used for Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (http://www.nextmed.com) Feb. 6-9 in Long Beach; the International Meeting on Medical Simulation (http://ssih.org), Jan. 14-17 in Orlando, Fla., or any of the Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technology workshops (http://simworkshops.stanford.edu), held four times a year in cities in the West.

Scholarship applications are available from Isabel Costa at 498-4081 or icosta@stanford.edu and are due by 6 p.m. on Dec. 1. Applicants must also include a letter from their department chair or their clinical chief. The scholarships will cover meeting costs, travel and lodging.