BWT Ritchie Scholarship
Applications for a fellowship starting in 2026 are open
​The BWT Ritchie Scholarship is a financial contribution that intends to assist a New Zealand based anaesthesia trainee in undertaking an international fellowship or projects that will also benefit anaesthesia in New Zealand, at either a local or national scale.
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Recipients, at the time the scholarship is awarded, must be eligible to proceed to training year 5 to undertake a further year of study overseas and must return to New Zealand following the fellowship for a minimum of three years.
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Apply now for a fellowship starting in 2026.
Applications close September 30 2025.
The BWT Ritchie Anaesthesia Scholarship is administered by the ANZAEC who may award one or more (or no) scholarships each year.
Anaesthesia trainees who, at the time the scholarship is awarded, are eligible to proceed to training year 5 are invited to apply for this scholarship.
The history of the scholarship
The scholarship is named for Dr B W T Ritchie, a New Zealand-born, UK-qualified anaesthetist who set up the BWT Ritchie Scholarship in 1991, with a gift to a trust for that purpose – for the capital to be retained with the net income used to fund the scholarships. The trust deed establishing the scholarship stipulates that the grant is intended to enable overseas experience but with the scholar expected to return to New Zealand for at least three years to work in anaesthesia or intensive care (which was not then a separate College). This now also applies to pain medicine.