Are you a student in the Medical field? Do you believe you are deserving of a scholarship? The QBMA invites you to apply for its 2025 Excellence Scholarship competition. These scholarships are awarded to students who have distinguished themselves through their outstanding academic and community achievements.
Please refer to the scholarship application form for eligibility criteria.
You are cordially invited to the QBMA Excellence Scholarship Gala – 2025 Edition on Friday, October 3, 2025, starting at 5 p.m.
Join us at the Université de Montréal, MIL Campus Atrium (1375 Avenue Thérèse-Lavoie-Rioux, Montréal, QC, H2V 0B3), located near Métro Outremont, with paid parking accessible via rue Picard.
Event Highlights:
Invited guest speaker: “Well-being of Black Communities in Montréal: Issues, Needs, and Perspectives of Public Health Professionals”
— presented by Larissa Ouédraogo, Planning, Programming, and Research Agent, CIUSSS Centre-Sud de Montréal
– Awarding of Excellence Scholarships to students
– Student poster presentations
– Cocktail reception
– Closing ceremony
Please confirm your attendance before September 27, 2025, by completing the following Google form
We look forward to seeing many of you at this GALA evening, which promises to be full of wonderful surprises!
We are sorry to announce that the event of QBMA Annual Gala and Scholarship Awards has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control. We regret any inconvenience this change may have caused.
A new deadline for scholarship application will be posted as soon as possible. We thank you in advance for your understanding.
This scholarship is awarded annually to outstanding students for their academic and community efforts.
The winners will be announced at the QBMA’s annual Gala-Symposium on October 18, 2024.
If you have any questions, please email us at qbma.president@gmail.com.
On the 21st of October 2022 the QBMA held its annual Gala and Banquet. This year’s gala marked 30 years of the association, a spectacular legacy indeed.
The event was held at the University of Montreal’s Jean Coutu Pavilion. Guests arrived as scholarship applicants presented their research on a healthcare topic relevant to the black community. Topics included but were not limited to:
Guests settled into their seats to listen to three wonderful panelists, Dr. Nicolas Cadet, Kate Hooton and Dr. Jean-Michel Leduc, lead a conversation about the recent efforts made by major Montreal universities, McGill and University of Montreal, to combat underrepresentation of black students in their cohorts.
The award ceremony followed after a series of talks and presentations. QBMA scholarship recipients, pictured below, were honored for their outstanding achievements academically as well as in the black community in Quebec.
Pictured below are our wonderful keynote speakers
The atmosphere was joyful as as the president of the QBMA, Dr. Edouard Kouassi, cut the special made cake to kick-off the cocktail portion of the evening. It was truly a night to remember.
As part of Black History Month, the Alumni and Donor Network, in collaboration with the faculties of Medicine, Pharmacy and Nursing Sciences of the Université de Montréal, presents “Rendez-vous inspirants”.
8th February 2023 at 12:00pm
Discover, during this virtual event, the inspiring journeys of three graduates working in the field of health.
🔹 Nadine Belony (Nursing Science 2016)
🔹 Edouard Kouassi (Pharmacy 1979, Pharmacology 1981 and 1985)
🔹 Agathe Tupula Kabola (Speech Therapy 2010)
Registration free, but compulsory: https://umontreal.zoom.us/…/WN_vIjfU_XJSNqRtUa_-wIrtw
Read the article here!
The Gala and Award ceremony will be held at the University of Montreal from 5PM-10PM.
Address: Université de Montréal, Pavillon Jean Coutu, 2940 Chemin de Polytechnique,
Montréal, QC H3T 1J4
QBMA will present scholarship recipients with awards based on their academic achievements and their community outreach.
This year’s Gala will be one for the books as it coincides with the 30th anniversary of the QBMA.
Awarded yearly to outstanding students for their academic and community efforts.
Winners to be announced at the annual QBMA Gala on the 21st October 2022.
Deadline of submission extended to Monday, September 26, 2022.
Black student underrepresentation is well described within medical schools and other health professions. Evidence from multiple contexts has shown that increasing diversity of the health care workforce improves patient care, including both access to and efficacy of care. From the learner perspective, diversity can improve healthcare training by enriching the learning environment, providing role models and, in some situations, promote better understanding of patient realities. For these reasons, healthcare education programs are deploying many efforts to increase diversity in their cohorts.
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