The New Brunswick Medical Education Foundation has created the Pat Darrah Memorial Medical Education Scholarship. (photo submitted)
For his role in bringing a medical school to the province, the New Brunswick Medical Education Foundation will create scholarships in honour of Pat Darrah.
It will be known as the Pat Darrah Memorial Medical Education Scholarship.
Darrah passed away on June 11th.
“Mr. Darrah was a driving force behind the formation of a medical school in the province and served on the steering committee with me to make it happen,” said Dr. Donald Craig, a senior advisor to the foundation.
The scholarships are for provincial students accepted into programs at Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick.
For every year of the $5,000 scholarship, a student will pledge to work in the province for one year as a physician.
“I could not think of a more fitting way to recognize his incredible legacy to this province then to create scholarships for a school he helped create and, in his name,” said Darren McLeod, Executive Director of the foundation.
The endowment fund intends to support these scholarships in perpetuity with two bursaries for a total of $10,000 a year.
The goal of the foundation is to raise $250,000 to sustain it and any other support will be directed to additional scholarships in Pat’s name.
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