Easing costs for medical students

Indigenous Medical Study 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 Study Resources program is easing these costs for first year Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.

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 as well as purchasing textbooks and equipment such as a stethoscope. I was slowly saving to be able to purchase these items, so this funding has taken the pressure off.”

The Indigenous Medical Study 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 said, “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 Study 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's generosity and donate today.

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 December 2024. Author: Lynda Allen.}