High School Students
The Rural Doctors Workforce Agency provides a range of services to assist rural origin high school students interested in medicine including:
Entry into Medicine: Year 12 UMAT Workshop
What is it?
Provides applicants with an overview of the Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test (UMAT), tips on how to approach multiple choice tests, how to sit interviews as well as time management strategies.
Where is it?
Education Development Centre
Milner Street, Hindmarsh, Adelaide
When is it?
One workshop will be held in June and one in July, 2010.
Who can attend?
Year 12 rural origin high school students applying for medicine in 2010 who are registered with the Australian Council of Educational Research (ACER) to sit the UMAT, to be held in July 2010.
Limited places available for applicants to other health science courses.
How to register?
Registrations open in mid April
How much?
This workshop is funded by the Rural Doctors Workforce Agency
Program?
To view the program for the Year 12 UMAT Workshop, please click here
For more information please contact:
Barbara Wright or Monika Marzec
P: +61 8 8234 8277
E: studentservices@ruraldoc.com.au
medSPACE: What you need to know about Medical School
What is it?
A three day residential workshop in Adelaide for rural high school students interested in studying medicine.
The workshop aims to:
• orient students to the university campuses
• give students the opportunity to talk to medical students and medical practitioners
• provide information and support to rural students who want to do medicine.
• provide practical experience through clinical skills stations
Click here to download the information brochure
Where is it?
Immanuel College, Novar Gardens
The University of Adelaide
Flinders University of South Australia
When?
6 - 8 July 2010
3 days, 2 nights
Who can attend?
Students must have a demonstrated interest in medicine.
To be eligible students must:
• be in year 10 or 11
• be a rural or remote high school student in South Australia
• have lived in a rural location for at least four years*
*The University of Adelaide requires applicants to have lived in a rural location for at least five years to be eligible for the rural background entry pathway.
Applications will be available from rural/remote SA high schools and from the RDWA.
How to Register?
To apply students must:
• complete and return the application form (Click to download)
• return the consent form signed by a parent or guardian (Click to download)
All applications must be received in full by COB Friday 9 April 2010.
Program
The proposed program is available in the information brochure (click to download)
For more information please contact:
Barbara Wright or Monika Marzec
P: +61 8 8234 8277
E: studentservices@ruraldoc.com.au
