Rotary Feros Health Student Grants

Application dates

Applications open

1 October 2025

Applications close

30 November 2025

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 dependent on your discipline) at a regional/rural 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
  • living expenses during the placement.

These funds will be transferred to your nominated bank account after commencement of the approved clinical placement.

Eligibility

How to apply

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

• your current curriculum vitae (CV)
• 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:
  • understanding of how your current studies/course content and clinical practice placement will contribute to enhancing their knowledge and skills in rural and regional communities’ practice
  • reflection on how prior life experiences, community contributions such as volunteer work/ casual employment along with current knowledge could contribute to your awareness of the needs of specific client needs especially in rural and regional area
  • awareness of the communication skills and cultural sensitivity needed to provide health care for a diverse and vulnerable population (health care recipients) especially in rural and regional areas
  • statement of how the clinical practice experience will contribute to your role as a health professional in the future
  • statement of how you perceive the support of the Feros/Rotary Grant will contribute to your learning and career advancement.

Application closing date

Applications close at 11.59pm on Sunday 30 November 2025.

Complete your application here

What happens next?

Once the selection process is complete, you will be notified in writing of the outcome of your application.

Conditions

Once you've completed your placement, you must:

• submit a two 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; 199.3 KB)

About the bursary

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 the Rotary Feros 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.