RAMUS Scholarships - Applying for RAMUS
Applications for 2010 are now closed.
Applications closed at 5:00pm AEDST 18 January 2010. Late applications will not be accepted.
If you are unable to use the online application form, please email ramus@ruralhealth.org.au or phone 1800 460 440 to ask for a hard copy application form to be sent to you.
To be eligible for RAMUS in 2010 you must:
- be an Australian citizen or permanent resident of Australia
- have lived in a defined Australian rural area for a minimum of five consecutive years, or eight cumulative years, from your fifth birthday up to the time you enter medical school;
The ASGC Remoteness Areas (RA) classification will be used to determine eligible rural locations for RAMUS from 2010. For the 2010 RAMUS application round, eligible rural locations will be those identified as being within RA categories 2-5. The Remoteness Area Locator provides a searchable map of RA classifications (http://www.doctorconnect.gov.au/internet/otd/Publishing.nsf/Content/RA-locator).
- be studying full-time in an accredited Australian medical degree in 2010;
You can apply for RAMUS:
- if you are enrolled in a medical degree in 2010, and in any year of your medical studies;OR
- if you have applied to study medicine, commencing in 2010, but your university place has not yet been confirmed.
Both undergraduate and graduate-entry medical degrees are eligible courses for RAMUS.
- agree to be a member of the student rural health club at or affiliated with the university at which you are, or will be, enrolled; and
- not be receiving any other scholarships, cadetships or bursaries with a combined value of more than $7,000 per year.
Selection of successful applicants
Scholarships will be awarded to the eligible applicants who rank the highest against the selection criteria of:
- rural background, based on the length of time they have lived in a defined rural area between the age of five and commencing medical studies. Having attended a rural primary school is also taken into account;
- financial need, based on income for the 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 financial years; and
- commitment to working in rural Australia in the future.
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