Students and Alumni

General Practice Students Network (GSPN) (opens in a new window)

GP Student Research

Enhancing student research capacity beyond the opportunities afforded within the curriculum is an important goal for the Department. Students researching with us consider the experience rewarding and important both in developing their research skills and their capacity for critical thinking. They also benefit by broadening their research and clinical networks within and beyond Western Sydney University. Student research is sometimes published in highly ranked peer-reviewed journals. Read about some of the General Practice research projects and publications   (opens in a new window) conducted by Western Sydney University medical students.

GP Synergy Medical Student Scholarships

Each year GP Synergy offers two scholarship (opens in a new window) places at participating universities located within our boundaries for students to explore general practice and general practice research.

Our Alumni

We regularly hear from WSU alumni who have chosen general practice as a career and in 2020 collated responses of our alumni to a short survey (PDF, 749.73 KB). Please let us know if you are training or have graduated in general practice and we will add you to our communication database.

GP Organisations

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

• RACGP – What is General Practice (opens in a new window)
• RACGP – What is rural general practice (opens in a new window)
  • RACGP - become a GP - real stories of GPs across Australia (opens in a new window)
• Student membership (opens in a new window) – free or for a low fee with access to the AFP magazine (follow the prompts including "Working towards general practice" and "student"

Australian College of Rural & Remote Medicine

• ACRRM – About the college (opens in a new window)
• ACRRM – Student membership (opens in a new window)
• ACRRM – Steps to becoming a GP (opens in a new window)

GP Synergy

• For those interested in considering a GP pathway (opens in a new window)
• Who we are?: GP Synergy (opens in a new window)

Maintaining your own personal health

• Health and wellbeing of medical students – 2014 AMSA 'Keeping Your Grass Greener guide'
• University student support structure / student health