{"id":2239,"date":"2019-11-28T15:52:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T05:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2019-11-28T15:52:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T05:22:19","slug":"nt-medical-program-student-wins-national-bursary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/2019\/11\/28\/nt-medical-program-student-wins-national-bursary\/","title":{"rendered":"NT Medical Program student wins national bursary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Pepperill, a third-year student in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/medicine\/courses\/medical-course\/nt-medical-program\/nt-medical-program.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flinders Northern Territory Medical Program<\/a> (NTMP) has won the MDA National and Rural Doctors Association health bursary of $7,000, which she will put to good use supporting her clinical placements in remote Northern Territory locations next year.<\/p>\n<p>Jean spent this year training at Alice Springs Hospital and the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress primary healthcare service and plans to work as a doctor in Alice Springs following graduation.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Pepperill received her award at the gala dinner of the Rural Medicine Australia 2019 annual conference held on the Gold Coast in October.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020 she plans to spend around seven months on placement in Nhulunbuy in East Arnhem Land, Tennant Creek and Alice Springs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a student in the Flinders NT medical program I am lucky to be able to pursue my passion for medicine in a program that focuses on rural\/remote and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, close to my family and Community,\u201d Ms Pepperill says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Pepperill, a third-year student in the Flinders Northern Territory Medical Program (NTMP) has won the MDA National and Rural Doctors Association health bursary of $7,000, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flinders-nt","category-flinders-nt-medical-program"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}