AMSA Rural Electives Bursary

Rural and Indigenous health provides a fantastic opportunity for health practitioners to experience challenging, holistic and hands-on medicine in areas of definite need. AMSA believes that positive, supported rural placements will enable students to experience rural medicine and hopefully result in students returning to the country to practice later in their careers.

AMSA provides an annual Rural Elective Bursaries for medical students. This bursary is valued at $1000, and is designed to help with the cost of planning and undertaking the elective.

In order to judge the recipient of the essay, AMSA is inviting students to write an essay of no more than 750 words and submit it with their application form.  The topic of this essay is:

Given the long term problem of recruiting and retaining doctors in rural Australia, what new suggestions would you have for improving rural doctor recruitment and retention?

Please download a copy of the Rural Health Electives Bursary application form and guidelines for applications below

Applications are now open.  Applications will close 5pm Monday June 20th 2011.

For more information please contact the AMSA Rural and Indigenous Officer at rural@amsa.org.au.  Please send applications and essays to the same address.