GP Synergy Medical Student Scholarships

Explore our 2020-2021 Research and Evaluation Report

Scholarship places

Each year GP Synergy offers scholarship places at participating universities located within NSW and ACT for medical students to explore general practice and general practice research.

Successful recipients receive $2,000 to support their medical studies. In return, they are required to prepare a general practice research project in-conjunction with their university’s academic GP unit (or equivalent) and undertake a general practice community placement.

Information on how to apply, application dates and the types of projects students undertake is available at the GP Synergy website.

Scholarship information

Case studies

Jasmine De Giovanni

2017 scholarship recipient

Trends in early-career general practitioners' prescribing of hormone and non-hormone therapy for menopausal symptoms.

"My paper was about the risks and benefits of menopausal hormone therapy prescribing, it's a complex issue that many GP registrars face. After the publication of the Women's Health Initiative study in 2002, prescribing of MHT decreased markedly. Using ReCEnT we wanted to see if there was a trend in prescribing of MHT by GP registrars from 2010-2019."

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Jocelyn Ledger

2019 scholarship recipient

Specificity of Early-Career General Practitioners' Problem Formulations in Patients Presenting with Dizziness: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.

"Looking at how GP registrars managed vertiginous patients came from two sources: first, a passionate neurologist delivering a teaching session around vertigo when I was a second-year medical student, and second, through my work as a data coder on the ReCEnT research project. I wondered how could some registrars come to a diagnosis when a patient presented with dizziness for the first time and how other registrars initially managed patients symptomatically. I was curious to see if their management changed and if there were differences in the registrars making those decisions."

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Meet Jasmine and Jocelyn

Jasmine has had her research published in Menopause (the Journal of the North American Menopause Society) and her findings have been presented at RACGP GP20, Society for Academic Primary Care Annual Conference 2020, 26th WONCA Europe Conference 2021.

Jocelyn has presented her findings at GPTEC 2019 and 26th WONCA Europe Conference 2021 and her journal manuscript reporting the findings is currently under review.