Sam Hall Bachelor Of Medicine/surgery, University Of Western Sydney
Sydney Morning Herald
Monday January 5, 2009
SAM HALL, who scored a UAI of 99.15, wouldn't have thought his passion for sport at school would help him get into medicine.
"I had a lot of experience with sport, particularly representative hockey, that related to teamwork," says Hall, who has just finished his second year of medicine at the University of Western Sydney. He revealed this information during the interview phase of his selection process for the medical degree at UWS. "[The interviewers] were very responsive to the fact that I'd been doing other things and not just schoolwork," he says. "The importance of having been part of teams made sense with how the hospitals work." Hall, pictured, is one of seven children and he has always tried to maintain connections with his local community."What attracted me to medicine was the variety and the opportunity to give something back," adds Hall, who was the recipient of a Rotary scholarship."This is a course that tries to relieve the workforce shortage in the greater western Sydney area. And because I'm 'home-grown', I have an attachment to it."The one day a week spent in hospital by second-year students is a case in point. "You get to see the patients and realise why you are doing medicine," Hall says.
© 2009 Sydney Morning Herald
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