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Monday, 8 April 2013

Esperance high school students will get a first-hand taste of what it's like to be a doctor or dentist when The University of Western Australia's Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences visits two local high schools this week.

UWA will hold two workshops for Year 10, 11 and 12 students on Thursday April 11 at the Esperance Anglican Community School and Esperance Senior High School.

The workshops aim to engage school students with interesting ‘hands-on' activities such as applying wet plaster casts to bandaged limbs and using real surgical instruments to stitch dummy sutures.

They will also get information and advice about how to plan and achieve a medical career through UWA's ‘choose medicine  ... choose dentistry Rural School Leaver Pathway'.

The workshops will be conducted by medical students from the Rural Clinical School of WA and hosted by UWA Winthrop Professor Geoff Riley, who is a Professor of Rural and Remote Medicine, and Head of The Rural Clinical School of Western Australia.

They will talk about their experiences at UWA and how rural high school students such as themselves can use special pathways to apply for and study medicine and dentistry at university.

The visit is part of the UWA Gives Back project in which staff and alumni are hosting activities throughout the University's 2013 Centenary Year to engage schools, industry and communities in remote and rural WA.

Media references

Sue Pougnault (UWA Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences)  (+61 8)  6488 4851  /  (+61 4) 19 174 860
Michael Sinclair-Jones (UWA Public Affairs)  (+61 8)  6488 3229  /  (+61 4) 00 700 783

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