Easing costs for medical students

Indigenous Medical Student Resources

The Murchland family’s Christmas-time generosity supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical students at Flinders University.

Study materials, online resources and textbooks can be a costly outlay for students, but donor support through the Indigenous Medical Student Resources fund is easing these costs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medicine students at Flinders University.

Medical student Sarah Logan says the support has been a great help to her studies.

“This support has assisted me to purchase an anatomy atlas to help me study anatomy, as well as purchasing textbooks and equipment such as a stethoscope. I was slowly saving to be able to purchase the items required so this funding has taken the pressure off.”

The Indigenous Medical Student Resources support is an initiative of the Murchland family who have a Christmas tradition of pooling together the money they would normally spend on presents for each other, to instead assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education at Flinders University.

In 2021 the Murchland family provided an additional funding boost to all year levels of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medicine students at Flinders University campuses, across South Australia and the Northern Territory.

The added support was a welcome surprise for the 19 students, including fourth year Medicine student Amy Hughes who says, “I am in the final year of my degree and have been looking to get one book in particular, Kumar and Clark Clinical Medicine. I will now be able to purchase this book and have online access as well. Thank you.”

Contributing to the Indigenous Medical Student Resources program is a practical way to ease study costs and provide encouragement to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.

Please join the Murchland family and donate today to help students through the Indigenous Medical Student Resources program.

100% of your tax-deductible donation will support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical students at Flinders University.

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^{Published 2020, updated September 2023. Author: Lynda Allen.}