Third cohort graduates at Churchill
Sixty students received their testamurs at the third graduation ceremony of the graduate entry MBBS in Churchill on 9 December last year.
Three students received prizes recognising their hard work. Jacqueline Fankhauser who received the Gippsland Medical School graduation prize for top achieving student in 2013. Jackie has lived in Warragul all her life and did most of her clinical training at the West Gippsland Health Care Group. Lisa Gilbert received the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Victoria State Committee) Gippsland Prize in Clinical Medicine, and Katherine Schelberger was awarded the Monash Medical Alumni (Gippsland) Prize.
The Deputy Chancellor, Mr Ian Pyman, presided over the ceremony. While the Deputy Dean MBBS, Professor Ben Canny, led the graduates in saying the Declaration of Geneva (Physician’s Oath). Dr Ranjana Srivastava, a published author and Monash medical graduate, gave the occasional address, speaking about being and compassionate and empathetic doctor.