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Woo..... this is for you Lexi. 
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http://media.uow.edu.au/news/2004/0802a/
Education minister announces go-ahead for University of Wollongong’s medical school
Aug 02, 2004
The Minister for Education, Science and Training, Dr Brendan Nelson, has today (August 2) announced the establishment of a graduate medical school for the University of Wollongong starting in 2006. The Government will provide capital funding of $10 million.
Dr Nelson told those attending the official announcement that it will involve 288 student places over a four-year period from 2006.
He said the school would be unique and would draw upon an extensive networking arrangement with universities around the world to ensure students were gaining the most up to date medical knowledge.
In fact, the graduate medical school will have not only key linkages with overseas medical institutions but an advisory board that will bring together some of the world’s leading medical practitioners.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Wollongong, Professor Gerard Sutton, said it had been a long held dream for decades to have a medical school established at UOW and finally the dream has come true.
The school will be based on an exciting new model that aims to meet the critical shortage of doctors in regional, rural and remote areas of Australia and prepare them for expected medical advances in the 21st century.
The medical school will be based at the University’s campuses in the Shoalhaven and Wollongong drawing on medical practitioners from these respective communities to help drive the teaching program.
The medical students will be selected from regional, rural and remote areas of Australia.
Professor Sutton said it was best to imagine the new medical school as a mosaic representing what has been successfully implemented elsewhere in the world and what is envisioned by others as necessary in the future in medical education.
Medical practitioners in Wollongong and Shoalhaven have strongly backed the formation of the new school.
Professor Sutton paid special tribute to the efforts of the Education Minister, Dr Nelson, and the Member for Gilmore, Joanna Gash, in helping to establish the case with their Federal Government colleagues for the establishment of the school.
:uhhuh:http://media.uow.edu.au/news/2004/0802a/
Education minister announces go-ahead for University of Wollongong’s medical school
Aug 02, 2004
The Minister for Education, Science and Training, Dr Brendan Nelson, has today (August 2) announced the establishment of a graduate medical school for the University of Wollongong starting in 2006. The Government will provide capital funding of $10 million.
Dr Nelson told those attending the official announcement that it will involve 288 student places over a four-year period from 2006.
He said the school would be unique and would draw upon an extensive networking arrangement with universities around the world to ensure students were gaining the most up to date medical knowledge.
In fact, the graduate medical school will have not only key linkages with overseas medical institutions but an advisory board that will bring together some of the world’s leading medical practitioners.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Wollongong, Professor Gerard Sutton, said it had been a long held dream for decades to have a medical school established at UOW and finally the dream has come true.
The school will be based on an exciting new model that aims to meet the critical shortage of doctors in regional, rural and remote areas of Australia and prepare them for expected medical advances in the 21st century.
The medical school will be based at the University’s campuses in the Shoalhaven and Wollongong drawing on medical practitioners from these respective communities to help drive the teaching program.
The medical students will be selected from regional, rural and remote areas of Australia.
Professor Sutton said it was best to imagine the new medical school as a mosaic representing what has been successfully implemented elsewhere in the world and what is envisioned by others as necessary in the future in medical education.
Medical practitioners in Wollongong and Shoalhaven have strongly backed the formation of the new school.
Professor Sutton paid special tribute to the efforts of the Education Minister, Dr Nelson, and the Member for Gilmore, Joanna Gash, in helping to establish the case with their Federal Government colleagues for the establishment of the school.
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