Scholarships
There are a wide variety of scholarships on offer to encourage aspiring health professionals to undertake a career in rural health as well as those already working in the field and interested in further professional development.
An overview of each program is listed below. If a particular scholarship is of interest to you, visit the external link provided for more information on availability and eligibility criteria.
Doctors
- Rural Australia Medical Undergraduate Scholarships - National Rural Health Alliance
RAMUS provides financial support of $10,000 a year to assist selected students from country areas to meet accommodation, living and travel costs. - John Flynn Scholarship - Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
Scholarship holders undertake a placement in the same country community for a minimum of two weeks per year – over 4 years. Food and living expenses are covered up to $500 per week, travel and accommodation is organised and paid for by the college. - NSW Rural Doctors Network - Scholarship search function
The Rural Doctors Network (RDN) is an excellent resource on the scholarships available to students studying medicine. Rural experience scholarships include: - Bush Bursaries & Country Women’s Association Scholarships
These provide medical students with the opportunity to spend two weeks in a rural area. Valued at approximately $3,000. - Cotton Industry Medical Scholarship
Provides financial assistance of $15,000 for three years. In return the student is required to spend a minimum of two weeks of their holidays each year on a rural placement in a NSW cotton growing region. - Working HUGS
The scheme offers medical students the opportunity to experience rural medical life and covers travel costs for students to travel to a rural area during their holidays. - Medical Rural Bonded Scholarship – Department of Health and Ageing
Students agree to practice in rural areas of Australia for six continuous years upon completion of basic medical and postgraduate training as a specialist (including General Practice). The Scholarship amount for 2007 is $22,744, indexed annually. - Rural Scholarship Fund - contact Institute of Medical Education and Training
Specialist trainees may be eligible for a rural scholarship which provides financial assistance of up to $2,000 for completing more than the minimum required terms in one year in a rural hospital.
Nurses & Midwives
- Scholarship index page - Nursing and Midwifery Office
An excellent resource on the scholarships available to nursing and midwifery students and practitioners.
Oral Health
- NSW Rural Allied Health Scholarships and Clinical Placement Grants – NSW Health
As part of its ongoing commitment to maintain and improve the health status of country communities, NSW Health provides financial assistance to eligible oral health students (excluding dentists) via the following schemes: - NSW Rural Allied Health Undergraduate Scholarships
Scholarships valued at $10,000 are offered to students who are from a country background and are undertaking allied health courses. - Undergraduate Rural Clinical Placement Grants
Grants of up to $650 (or up to $1,000 for placements in Broken Hill) are available to assist both country and urban allied health students. The grant is to assist with expenses associated with clinical placements in country areas. - NSW Rural Allied Health Post-Graduate Scholarships
Scholarships valued at up to $9,000 are available for allied health staff who are undertaking post-graduate tertiary studies. - NSW Health Rural Dental Scholarships - contact USYD Faculty of Dentistry
This scholarship offers students $7,500 a year to University of Sydney dental students who intend to pursue a career in the public sector oral health services of country Area Health Services in NSW. - The Rural Allied Health Undergraduate Scholarship Scheme - SARRAHServices for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health - nationally recognised as a peak body representing rural and remote allied health professionals
Scholarship holders will receive $10,000 each year during their undergraduate or graduate entry dentistry or oral health. - The Australian Rural and Remote Health Professional Scholarship Scheme - SARRAHServices for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health - nationally recognised as a peak body representing rural and remote allied health professionals
This scholarship supports qualified allied health professionals living and working in country Australia to enable them to undertake continuing professional development activities.
Allied Health
- NSW Rural Allied Health Scholarships and Clinical Placement Grants – NSW Health
As part of its ongoing commitment to maintain and improve the health status of country communities, NSW Health provides financial assistance to eligible allied health students via the following schemes: - NSW Rural Allied Health Undergraduate Scholarships
Scholarships valued at $10,000 are offered to students who are from a country background and are undertaking allied health courses. - Undergraduate Rural Clinical Placement Grants
Grants of up to $650 (or up to $1,000 for placements in Broken Hill) are available to assist both country and urban allied health students. The grant is to assist with expenses associated with clinical placements in country areas. - NSW Rural Allied Health Post-Graduate Scholarships
Scholarships valued at up to $9,000 are available for allied health staff who are undertaking post-graduate tertiary studies. - Radiation Oncology Medical Physicists post-graduate Scholarship – contact AHSArea Health Service
These scholarships are available to medical physicists who are currently employed in radiation oncology within a NSW Area Health Service (AHS) and are undertaking (or who will be undertaking) postgraduate studies. Contact the relevant AHS for more information. - Ian Collier Memorial Scholarship – NSW Physiotherapists Registration Board
The scholarship offers up to $10,000 of funding and includes a category for distance learning for non-metropolitan physiotherapists. - The Rural Allied Health Undergraduate Scholarship Scheme - SARRAHServices for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health - nationally recognised as a peak body representing rural and remote allied health professionals
Scholarship holders will receive $10,000 each year during their undergraduate or graduate entry allied health professional studies. - The Australian Rural and Remote Health Professional Scholarship Scheme - SARRAHServices for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health - nationally recognised as a peak body representing rural and remote allied health professionals
This scholarship supports qualified allied health professionals living and working in country Australia to enable them to undertake continuing professional development activities. - Rural and Remote Pharmacy Undergraduate Scholarships - Australian Pharmacy Guild
From 2007, up to 30 scholarships will be offered annually to students from country areas. Each scholarship is valued at $10,000 per annum, per student. - Rural and Remote Placement (Internship) Allowance – Australian Pharmacy Guild
The Allowance provides assistance to students for travel and accommodation costs associated with undertaking a placement in a country area.