Queensland health students – applications to Grow Rural close 7th April
The Grow Rural program has opened an opportunity to taste how life is as a health professional in rural Queensland. By joining the 2017 cohort, you will visit Central Queensland and experience a farm stay, see a cattle property, attend a community trivia night, as well as undertake clinical skills training sessions.
This is one of a kind program for thirty-five undergraduate medical, nursing and allied health students from any Queensland university, and will take place from Friday 28 to Sunday 30 July, 2017. Applications opened on 1 February, 2017 and will be closed on Friday 7 April, 2017
If you are interested to work in rural setting or are wondering if life in a rural area will suit you, take a look at this itinerary:
- Friday 28 July, 2017
Depart from Rockhampton 11am, and by 2pm arrived in Woorabinda for Indigenous Health Workshop and continue to visit Baralaba Hospital. Students will stay the night at Myella Farm Stay and enjoy a networking dinner with invited guests. - Saturday 29 July, 2017
Students will start the day with whip cracking, cow milking, feeding horses and feeding chickens. By 10am, they go on tour of Moura Dawson Medical Practice and
Hospital in Moura. In the afternoon students will go to Theodore and visit the Theodore Medical Centre and Hospital. Students will close the night with some free time, dinner, and a trivia night. - Sunday 30 July, 2017
At 7am, students will go to the Biloela Civic Centre for clinical rotations until lunch time. After a Q&A panel and wrap-up, it will be time to go back to Rockhampton.
The application form can be accessed in GROW Rural website.
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