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Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for a scholarship, applicants must meet the following criteria:

• Be an Australian citizen or permanent resident of Australia
• Be enrolled as a student in an accredited or approved Australian allied health or oral health degree. Successful completion of such a course of study must make the scholarship holder eligible for full registration (where applicable), full membership of their professional body and qualified to commence clinical practice
• Not be in receipt of a scholarship, bursary or grant that provides financial assistance for this clinical placement
• Not be in receipt of another scholarship, bursary or grant funded by the Department of Health and Ageing
• Be able to complete a clinical placement in the same community for up to 6 weeks
• Undertake your clinical placement between 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011
• Comply with the requirements of the clinical placement organisation  

Please note:

Emphasis will be placed on students in their final year/s of study.

Nursing, pharmacy, public health or medical students are not eligible for NAHSSS: Allied Health Clinical Placement.

Nursing students and professionals should contact the Royal College of Nursing (RCNA) for information relating to nursing clinical placement scholarships.

Pharmacy students and professionals should contact the Pharmacy Guild of Australia for information relating to pharmacy clinical placement scholarships.

Medical students should contact the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) for information relating to medical clinical placement scholarships. 

The NAHSSS: Allied Health Clinical Placement is open to individuals studying a degree in: 

• Aboriginal Health Worker (Cert IV and above only) 
• Audiology 
• Chiropractic
• Dental & oral health: including Dentistry, Dental Hygiene, Dental Prosthetics
• Dietetics & Nutrition
• Exercise Physiology (AAESS approved only)
• Genetic Counselling (Post-graduate study only)
• Medical Radiation Science: Medical Imaging, Nuclear Medicine Technology, Radiation Therapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Optometry
• Orthoptics
• Osteopathy
• Physiotherapy
• Podiatry
• Prosthetics and Orthotics
• Psychology*
• Social Work (Australian Association of Social Workers approved courses only)
• Speech Pathology, and
• Sonography.  

* Psychology students must be enrolled in Honours or Postgraduate study level to be eligible.
 
NOTE: If your profession is not listed here you are NOT eligible to apply for this scholarship.