2024-25 ACT Health Vacation Study Program - Student Application Form

Submissions closed at 5:00PM 9 September 2024 (AEST).

Welcome to the 2024-25 ACT Health Vacation Study Program Student Application Form

IMPORTANT: Please read the information below to assist you in completing your submission online.

KEY DATES:

Student Applications opens 9am Monday 19 August

Student Applications close 5pm Monday 9 September

Notification of application outcome COB Tuesday 17 September

To submit a student application to any of the approved projects listed below, select the “start a submission’ icon at the top of the screen to start your application.

No.	Supervisor	Project Title
1	Toni Ashmore	End of life care in acute hospital settings
2	Anna Brichacek	Evaluation of the Eating Disorders Residential Treatment Centre
3	Nicola Irwin	The impact of Nirsevimab on the burden of RSV infection in children under 2 years of age in the ACT
4	Rebecca Brown	Incidents and Mechanisms of Geriatric Trauma treated at the Canberra hospital
5	Rachel Wei Li	Preclinical Trial Using Sheep Model - 3B Materials for Future Orthopaedic Implants
6	Paul Craft	Outcomes from treatment of Sarcoma in Canberra Health Services
7	Margaret Broom	Going home from NICU; how can we prepare parent confidence in preparation for discharge
8	C.J. Cabilan	What do we know about behaviour support plans to reduce the likelihood of occupational violence in acute care settings? A scoping review
9	Joanna Mills	Rethinking the medical vocation: balancing professional and personal priorities for junior doctors in Canberra
10	Amanda Dyson	Reducing Jargon use in medical staff in Neonatology
11	Georgina Chelberg	Feasibility of local parkrun events as inclusive community spaces for people living with dementia: A scoping review
12	Clare Stephenson	Development of an at home rehabilitation intervention for people with dementia using co-design: a qualitative analysis
13	Jay Chen	Analysing the Impact of Influenza Vaccination Rates on Respiratory Disease Spread in the ACT
14	Drew Richardson	Impact of the National IV Fluid Shortage on Emergency Medicine
15	Walter Abhayaratna	Modelling Different Approaches to Integrated Care for the Clinical Management of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) Disease using System Dynamics
16	Alison Lally	Management of Neonatal Sepsis in Canberra Hospital ED
17	Michelle Fisher	Falls Prevention: Identifying best practice falls prevention approaches to reduce the number of preventable falls in the ACT.
18	George McNamara	ACT Health: How to train your Natural Language Program (or Dragon).
19	Amy Clark	Health promotion and prevention evidence-based strategies to curtail alcohol-related harmful behaviours

Please note:

If you haven’t used this platform before, you will be asked to register.
Students may apply for up to 4 projects, but can only complete one placement.
This placement is based in Canberra and successful students will be required to attend the face-to-face components.

You may begin anywhere in this application form. Please ensure you save as you go.

If you require any assistance completing this form, please send an email to VSP@act.gov.au.

NAVIGATING (MOVING THROUGH) THE APPLICATION FORM

On every screen (page of the form) you will find a Form Navigation contents box, this links directly to every page of the application. Click the link to jump directly to the page you want.

You can also click 'next page' or 'previous page' on the top or bottom of each page to move forward or backward through the application.

SAVING YOUR DRAFT APPLICATION

If you wish to leave a partially completed application, press 'save and close' and log out. When you log back in and click on the 'My Submissions' link at the top of the screen, you will find a list of any applications you have started or submitted. You can reopen your draft application and start where you left off.

You can also download any application, whether draft or completed, as a PDF. Click on the 'Download PDF' button located at the bottom of the last page of the application form.

SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION

You will find a Review and Submit button at the bottom of the Navigation Panel. You need to review your application before you can submit it.

Once you have reviewed your application you can submit it by clicking on 'Submit' at the top or bottom of the screen or on the navigation panel. You will not be able to submit your application until all the compulsory questions are completed and there are no validation errors.

Once you have submitted your application, no further editing or uploading of support materials is possible.

When you submit your application, you will receive a confirmation email with a copy of your submitted application attached. This will be sent to the email you used to register.

If you do not receive a confirmation of submission email then you should presume that your submission has NOT been submitted.

Hint: also check the email hasn't landed in your spam or junk email folder.

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