Placement

Find out about recent Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) graduate Zain Langah's rural placement in regional Queensland.

UQ Master of Dietetics Studies Student, Bronte Young, shares her top ten tips for making the most out of your rural placement.

Rolling into school on my first day of my 12-week professional teaching placement I felt flooded with emotions … excitement, fear, anticipation, panic. Will the other teachers like me? Will I get along with the students? Will I cope? … and on and on went the questions in my mind.

Indian novelist Anita Desai once said “wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow". This rung true for me after spending a month in India for my midwifery placement. It is such a culturally rich and diverse part of the world, with a multitude of sights, smells, tastes, faces and places.

I have always wanted to work in other countries, and I love learning about different cultures and  ways of doing and being, so the decision to apply for an international placement was a no-brainer for me.

Clinical exercise physiology student, Fraser, shares with us his experience on professional placement at the UQ Centre for Exercise and Healthy Brain Ageing (UQ CEHBA).

I am a city girl who enjoys the hustle and bustle. I was comfortable where I was – in the city. But I wanted to do something out of my comfort zone. So, for my one month pharmacy placement, I decided to make use of the Rural Pharmacy Placement Allowance and head out to Lucy Walker Pharmacy TerryWhite Chemart in Goondiwindi.