Medicine and Health

The Arrow Energy Indigenous Scholarship Program will support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to gain qualifications at JCU and provide employment pathways. It comprises two scholarship types, The Arrow Energy Resource Sector Indigenous Scholarship and The Arrow Energy Indigenous Scholarship. Information Sheet

Open to: Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students enrolling at JCU.

Value: $10,000 each

Closing Date: 31 January 2013 - Application Form

Open to: students who identify as Australian South Sea Islanders as defined in the 2000 Queensland Government Recognition Statement of the Australian South Sea islander Community.

Value: $5,000 per year (full-time students) or $2,500 per year (part-time students)

Closing Date: Early February 2013.

The application form is available from the Multicultural Affairs of Queensland website.

Open to: commencing students who have attended Cape York College and enrolled in the Bachelor of Pharmacy at James Cook University.

Value: $5,000 per year.

Closing Date: 31 January, 2013. Application Form

Open to: students enrolled in their first year of any undergraduate human health sciences course at James Cook University.

Value: $3,000.

Closing Date: 30 June, 2013. Application Form

Open to: Indigenous students who undertake an undergraduate course of study or a Tertiary Access Course at JCU. The Commonwealth Scholarships (CS) Program aims to assist Indigenous students have better access to and increased participation in higher education. Students need to apply to JCU directly.
Value: In 2013 from $1,234 up to $12,067.

Closing Date: 2013 Early Offer Round - 30 November 2012.

Open to: students with a physical disability or other impairment who are full-time undergraduate students whose normal domicile is to the North of the 22nd degree of South latitude in the State of Queensland (above a line from St. Lawrence through Muttaburra)

Open to: students currently enrolled full-time or part-time at the University; and undertaking second, third or honours year subjects in chemistry, and by students undertaking postgraduate studies in chemistry.

Open to: students who have been residents at George Roberts Hall for at least one full academic year, and who have achieved (at least) a credit average in their first year undergraduate subjects.

Value: payment towards full board accommodation expenses for one academic year at George Roberts Hall.

Global Voices is now calling for applications to be part of its funded youth delegations to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, as well as its Nairobi Study Tour on Sustainable Development.

Open to: Students aged between 18 and 30.

Value: Cost of all flights, accommodation, visas, transfers, insurance, registration fees and most meals.

Closing Date: 3 March 2013

Open to: full-time domestic Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander students of the University.

Value: $5,000 in money, books, equipment or payment for residential accommodation.

Closing Date: 31 December each year Application Form

JCU Access Scholarships and JCU Access Bursaries

Open to: full-time students who are in their first year of study.

Value: $5,000 or $1,500 for one year.

JCU Support Grants

Open to: full-time students who are in their second year of study.

Value: $500 JCU Bookshop credit.

Closing Dates:

Round 2 - 26 July 2013

Open to: Papua New Guinean citizens and holders of a student visa, who are enrolled as a full-time student within the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Molecular Sciences for an Award of the University.

Value: $3,000 or such amount as the Selection Committee determine from time to time in the form of money, books, equipment, or payment for residential accommodation.

Open to: students who are enrolled full-time in the second year of MBBS, demonstrate an internest in rural medicine and are able to undertake an international rural elective.

Open to: candidates who are enrolled in a BSc (Honours) degree or a doctorate underdaking research in animal or human immunology.

Open to: full-time domestic nursing students undertaking the third year of a Bachelor of Nursing Science (pre-registration) at James Cook University.

Value: $3,000 for the year.

Closing Date: 21 December, 2012. Application Form

Open to: students who are enrolled in year 5 of the MBBS programme and who intend to undertake the year 6 elective in the developing world.

Value: $2,500 or such amount as the Selection Committee determines from time to time.

Open to: students who have been ordinarily resident within a local government area forming part of the Mount Isa - Townsville Economic Zone (MITEZ) and are enrolled (or will be enrolled)full-time in an undergraduate degree in a discipline likely to contribute to improved management in the mining, metallurgical or maritime transport and logistics industries in north or northwest Queensland.

Value: $5,000 for one year.

Further information is available on the LearnJCU Medicine Course Site.

Open to: students enrolled in a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, completing their final year, at James Cook University who wish to attend a Medical Conference (to be attended during the final year or just after graduation).

Value: $2,500.

Closing Date: 10 September 2012.

Open to: honours and postgraduate students in Biochemistry.

Value: determined by the Selection Committee from time to time, to a total not exceeding $4,000 in one year.

Open to: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, studying medicine or allied health at James Cook University.

Value: up to $25,000 per annum to be paid quarterly in advance or such amount as the Selection Committee determine from time to time.

Open to: first year students who reside in the area bounded by Innisfail in the North, Bowen in the South and Mount Isa in the West.

Value: $5,000.

Closing Date: 30 September each year. Application Form