Medical Education Foundation Creates Scholarship To Honour Pat Darrah

SAINT JOHN – For his role in bringing a medical school to the province, the New Brunswick Medical Education Foundation will create a scholarship in honour of Pat Darrah.

It will be known as the Pat Darrah Memorial Medical Education Scholarship.

Darrah passed away on June 11.

“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 Darrah’s name.

Tamara Steele is a reporter with Country 94/97.3 The Wave, a Huddle content partner.