Key scholarship details
Application status
Open for automatic consideration
Benefit amount
Up to $400
Eligible study level
Graduate coursework
Eligible student type
Domestic and international students
Eligible study stage
Current study
Benefit duration
One-off
Summary
The Peter Disler Award for Rehabilitation Medicine is named after Peter Disler, Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Melbourne from 1993. In his time at Melbourne he was a pioneer in developing a rehabilitation curriculum for medical students, and was a charismatic, enthusiastic and inspiring mentor and teacher. Sponsored by the RMSANZ Rehabilitation Society.
(Previously sponsored by the Rehab Specialists at Melbourne Health. Formerly known as the Rehabilitation Medicine Prize.)
Benefits
$400
Amount:
Up to $400
Duration:
One-off
Eligibility and selection criteria
Eligibility
Awarded to the student who is regarded by all the members of the viva examining panel as having given the best answer to the Rehabilitation Medicine Prize question in the Aged Care Prize viva exam.
Selection criteria
This prize is awarded as part of the Aged Care Prize viva exam.
Eligible Doctor of Medicine students will be invited to participate in their fourth year based on their Aged Care term results from Principles of Clinical Practice 3.
Conditions
The annual Aged Care Prize viva exam comprises of -
- The Katharine Woodruff Prize in Palliative Medicine
- The Herbert Bower Memorial Prize In Psychiatry of Old Age
- Peter Disler Award for Rehabilitation Medicine
- Derek Prinsley Prize for Geriatric Medicine
Study level:
Graduate coursework
Student type:
Domestic and international students
Study stage type:
Current study
Study area:
Health
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Status:
Open for automatic consideration
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2022 - Caitlin Cole
2020 - George He, Subhashaan Sreedharan
2019 - Justin Verrocchi
2018 - Michelle Vicenzino
2017 - Lucy McPhate
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