Rotary Feros Health Student Grants

Application dates

Applications close

7 November 2023

What you'll receive

Rotary Feros Student Health Grants are supported by various Rotary clubs in Brisbane. With this grant, you will receive:

• a clinical placement (placement length dependant on your discipline) at a regional/rural/remote hospital or health service
• $1,650 in funds provided by Rotary to be solely used for:
  • transport to, from and during the clinical placement (this may include airfares, ferries, airport transfers and/or petrol)
  • accommodation and
  • living expenses during the placement.

These funds will be transferred during the second week of the placement.

Eligibility

How to apply

Applications are now closed for grants supporting 2024 placements.

To apply, complete the application form before the close date, including:

1. Your current curriculum vitae (CV)
2. A copy of your academic record indicating satisfactory progress in the program and your expected date of completion
3. A self-written response (1,000 words maximum) about yourself and your intended learning outcomes for your regional/rural clinical placement. Assessment of the written statement will be based on the following criteria:
   • Communication skills, including the quality of writing, presentation and information provided
   • Knowledge of cultural safety and health issues encountered in rural, remote and Indigenous populations
   • Clarity of expectations and potential benefits from this clinical placement, and how the experience may be applied to your future practice
   • Evidence of current and previous volunteering work done for charities or community service.

What happens next?

We will email you to let you know if you have been shortlisted. It is anticipated that interviews will be held approximately two weeks after applications close.

Grant recipients will be awarded following the examination period/results reslease to ensure only eligible students are selected.  This is anticipated to occur in December 2023 - January 2024.

Conditions

Once you've completed your placement, you must:

• submit a 2-3 page summary of your experience within two weeks of completing your placement
• be available to visit and present at a selected Rotary Club to report on your experience (template for presentation to be provided).

Terms and conditions for Rotary Feros Health Student Grants (PDF file; 230.8 KB)

About the prize

In 2004, the Rotary Club of Toowong was approached by a final year medical student who requested financial assistance to undertake an elective in Papua New Guinea.  The Rotary Club of Toowong Medical Students’ Grant evolved from this request and then became the Rotary Club of Toowong Feros Medical Students’ Grant in honour of club members John and Judy Feros, whose dedication and input helped establish the program and set the foundation for its ongoing success.

In 2015, Rotary extended the program, creating the Rotary Feros Nursing Students’ Grants, to fund nursing students from QUT to undertake a clinical practice experience in a remote or Indigenous clinic or hospital in Queensland for six weeks. Most recently, in 2022, Rotary extended the program, to include Allied Health Student Grants, and additionally support students studying a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics, and/or Bachelor of Paramedic Science, and/or Bachelor of Radiation Therapy from QUT to undertake student clinical practice in remote or Indigenous healthcare environments. The aim of the Rotary Feros Student Health Grants is to enable students to learn firsthand, the range of health conditions that healthcare workers and clinicians in remote areas routinely manage.