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Scholarships for Medical Students from Rural Areas:
APPLICATIONS ROUND HAS CLOSED
Applications are now open for the Rural Australia Medical Undergraduate Scholarships (RAMUS) Scheme, funded by the Australian Government and designed to encourage medical students with a rural background to pursue a medical career in rural, regional or remote Australia.
Successful applicants will receive un-bonded scholarships worth $10,000 a year while completing a standard medical degree at their chosen university. The RAMUS Scheme is open to medical students from rural and remote areas, with demonstrated financial need being one of the criteria for ranking those who apply.
“The RAMUS Scheme supports a total of 550 ongoing scholarships and up to 120 new scholarship places are available in 2010. Applications must be submitted by 5pm on 18 January 2009,” said RAMUS Manager, Susan Magnay.
The RAMUS Scheme’s support helps successful applicants overcome financial barriers to study, such as the cost of living away from home or moving away from family support structures. Under its mentorship program, RAMUS scholars are paired with experienced rural medical practitioners.
Since it began in 2000 more than 1,500 RAMUS scholarships have been awarded with more than 870 recipients having already graduated in medicine.
To access an online application form, or find further details about the RAMUS Scheme, prospective applicants should visit the National Rural Health Alliance website at www.ruralhealth.org.au
Contacts:
Susan Magnay - Manager RAMUS: (02) 6285 4660
Marshall Wilson - Media: 0419 664 155
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ADA Graduate Student Scholarships
Notices and copies of the Guidelines for the ADA Graduate Student Scholarships have been sent to the Deans of the Dental Schools nationally advising that:
* Applications are open for the 2009 Graduate Student Scholarships of $4,000.00 each, one Scholarship being available to each Dental School. The School may choose to nominate one person or several recipients to share the Scholarship.
* These Scholarships are restricted to graduate students in specialty training programmes to enable them to travel interstate to complete components of their course work. The Scholarships are not available for overseas travel.
* The graduate students must be members of the ADA Inc.
* Applications must be supported by a recommendation from the relevant Dean with details of disbursement of the funding.
* The Scholarships are available throughout the calendar year.
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Australian Defence Force – Undergraduate Sponsorship Opportunities
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) offers Undergraduate Sponsorship to selected applicants with a salary of $25,324-$39,137 for Army, Navy and Air Force as well as the Graduate Dental Scheme (GDS) for Army with a salary of $49,038-$54,456, increasing to $70,720 for all new graduates.
Defence will also pay for your:
* Remaining HECS/HELP
* Prescribed textbooks
* Rental assistance and
* Free medical and dental.
Get paid to study at the university of your choice and qualify as a Dentist leading to a guaranteed job in the Australian Defence Force as a Dental Officer for the period of sponsorship plus one year.
Successful applicants undertake a four or five year degree course at one of the Australian universities offering the graduate or undergraduate dental program. Sponsorship can start from the commencement of your degree for Air Force and Army (GDS) once you have your university offer. Navy and Army undergraduates should apply midway through second year for sponsorship from the commencement of third year.
Applications are open NOW!!!
Please contact:
NSW / WA / ACT - Major Gina Tilbrook, Email: gtilbrook@dfr.com.au Phone: (02) 8831 2253 or 0437 022 544
QLD / NT - Lieutenant Tracey Cannard, Email: tcannard@dfr.com.au Phone: (07) 3016 2387
VIC / TAS / SA - Lieutenant Commander Matt Keogh, Email: mkeogh@dfr.com.au Phone: (03) 8633 5054
For further details, please go directly to Army Dentist, Navy Dentist or Air Force Dentist or visit www.defencejobs.gov.au
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Aboriginal Study Grants
Notices have been sent to the Deans of the Dental Schools advising that :
Applications are open for the 2010 ADA Study Grants for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Dental Students of $2,000.00 each [five of which Grants are awarded each year].
Each applicant must, of course, be an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
Applications must be on the appropriate form available from ADA Inc. and/or the Deans of the Dental Schools. The closing date for applications is March 31, 2010.
Applications are considered by a panel consisting of the Federal President of the ADA [or his/her nominee], the Federal Vice President, and the Chief Executive Officer. Successful candidates will be notified by the end of May 2010.
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Study Grants for Dental Students from Rural and Remote Regions
Notices have been sent to the Deans of the Dental Schools advising that:
Applications are open for the 2010 ADA Study Grants for Dental Students from Rural and Remote Regions of $5,000.00 each. Four Grants are available this year; one each to selected students respectively residing in a rural/remote region of Victoria, NSW, South Australia and NT.
Each applicant must comply with criteria set out in the Guidelines which are available, together with appropriate Application Forms, from the ADA Inc. and/or the Deans of the Dental Schools.
The closing date for applications is March 31, 2010.
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Aborigional and Torres Strait Islander Health Scholarships - Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship Scheme
The Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship Scheme is funded by the Australian Governement Department of Health and Ageing, and administered by Royal College of Nursing, Australia (RCNA).
Scholarships will be available for the statrt of the 2010 academic year and are worth up to $7,500 per year for part time study and up to $15,000 per year for full time study. Applications will be available to download from www.rcna.org.au from 27 June 2009.
The scholarship provides financial assistance to Aborigional and Torres Strait Islandser people who are or will be studying at a TAFE (Certificate IV and above) or undergraduate level in the areas of:
- Aborigional health worker
- Alcohol and other drugs workers
- Allied health (excluding pharmacy)
- Dentistry/oral health
- Health service management
- Health promotion
- Medicine
- Mental health
- Midwifery
- Nursing
Applicants must identify as and be able to prove their Aborigional or Torres Strait Islander status.
Selection will be based on criteria including demonstrated interest and experience in Aborigional and Torres Strait Islander health, leadership qualitie and financial need. This selection is not based on academic achievement.
This scheme will open 27 June 2009 applications will be available from www.rcna.org.au
Applications close 7 August 2009.
Further information is available by contacting RCNA on free call 1800 688 628 or by email at scholarships@rcna.org.au
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Rural Allied Health Undergraduate Scholarship [RAHUS] Scheme
The Rural Allied Health Undergraduate Scholarship [RAHUS] Scheme is one component of the suite of long term initiatives by the Australian Government to increase the number of health professionals in rural and remote areas of Australia. The Scheme is specifically aimed at addressing the shortage of allied and oral health professionals in these areas.
Following their graduation, scholarship holders will be fully qualified and able to commence clinical practice. The goal of the Scheme is to increase the number of students who grew up in rural and remote areas of Australia, who enter and complete allied health or oral health undergraduate or graduate entry tertiary studies.
Scholarship holders will receive $10,000 each year during their entry level allied health or oral health professional studies. These funds assist scholars to cover the costs of moving from their homes and support structure in the country and settling to university study and living in the city.
The scholarships are not bonded. Rather, the ties to rural and remote areas of Australia are reinforced through a rural mentorship scheme as well as through membership of their university’s student rural health club or nearest affiliated rural health club.
Applications for 2009 scholarships opened on 28 July 2008 and will close on 29 September 2008.
The RAHUS Scheme is managed by Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH), in partnership with the National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA).
Please note: the new undergraduate Dentistry courses at James Cook University and Charles Sturt University and the Bachelor of Oral Health Course at Charles Sturt University commencing in 2009 are eligible courses for 2009.
Click here to view the list of available courses
Contact details:
RAHUS Administration Officer
PO Box 74
Deakin West ACT 2600
Free call: 1800 338 061
Tel: (02) 6162 0321
Fax: (02) 6162 4094
Email: rahus@sarrah.org.au
Website: http://www.sarrah.org.au/site/index.cfm
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