Scholarships awarded to students for rural health education

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6 November 2013

Scholarships awarded to medical students Aspiring to a career in rural health

The 2013 Pat Farry Rural Health Education Trust Travelling Scholarship has been awarded to two University of Otago School of Medicine students who will travel to India, Nepal, Gibraltar and The Falkland Islands to further their rural health education.

John Farry, chairman of the Pat Farry Rural Health Education Trust, has announced that David Neynens from Glenorchy and Rebecca Craw from Tauranga will both receive NZ$5,000 to assist their elective travel in the first term of 2014.

“The Pat Farry Rural Health Education Trust Travelling Scholarship assists young people to spend valuable time in innovative and challenging overseas situations, to return, and to become the next generation of idea generators here in New Zealand,” said Mr Farry.

The Pat Farry Rural Health Education Trust was established in 2010 to support the sustainability and quality of health services to rural communities.

The medical students have spent the past year in Balclutha (David Neynens) and Greymouth (Rebecca Craw) as part of the University of Otago School of Medicine's Rural Medical Immersion Programme established by Dr Pat Farry in 2007.

“By supporting the learning experiences of medical students like David Neynens and Rebecca Craw, the Pat Farry Rural Health Education Trust continues Dr Pat Farry’s instinct for finding and mentoring rural General Practitioners of the future,” said John Farry.
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