Issue 18. 17 November 2008 - UWA Staff - The University of Western ...

Rural specialist heads for Cambridge
But the former Bunbury student is a
country boy at heart and will be
investigating the factors which
contribute to poorer survival rates for
rural cancer patients, compared with
their urban counterparts.
Andrew, who like many medical
students, is taking a year off from his
MBBS for a year of research, has been
promoting medicine in the bush since
he began his medical studies.
A traditional seat of learning,
embedded in conventional
Western culture, is the unlikely
destination for a medical student
who has been named Rural
Medical Student of the Year.
Andrew Webster has just completed
fourth year and is off to Cambridge
Andrew Webster working with Indigenous children in the Northern Territory
Work-out for
your work-day
University for six months to work on his
Bachelor of Medical Science, under the
supervision of Professor Jon Emery,
Head of the School of Primary,
Aboriginal and Rural Health Care and
chair of General Practice in UWA’s
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and
Health Sciences.
“The Rural High School Visit program
was instrumental in me choosing to
study medicine and I wanted to
contribute to the program, so I’ve been
going back to Bunbury, Mandurah and
Narrogin each year to talk to high
school kids, to tell them all about a
career in medicine,” Andrew said.
He has also visited schools in the
Northern Territory, where he has
worked with medical practitioners in the
remote Aboriginal community of
Bathurst Island, under a John Flynn
Placement Program scholarship. Next
year he will go to another community
on the Gove Peninsula. But Cambridge
also has its place in Andrew’s plan.
Would you like to improve your fitness but don’t
want the students you deal with every day to see
you when you are most vulnerable (and sweaty)?
UWA Corporate Fitness is for you.
The UWA Sport and Recreation Association has set up a
studio exclusively for UWA staff, in the Watersports Complex,
so you can exercise overlooking Matilda Bay.
“UWA Corporate Fitness is all about synergy,” said Jay-Lee
Longbottom, a Graduate Officer at the Sport and Recreation
Association. “It’s about aligning your work-out with your workday.”
UWA Corporate Fitness classes run between 7am and
8.45am and 5.15pm and 6.45pm.
Flex and Flow (a combination of yoga, pilates and tai chi) and
Zone and Tone (low impact aerobics, core strength training,
yoga and pilates) are two classes offered exclusively to staff.
Total Conditioning incorporates cardio interval training using
equipment, and dynamic resistance exercises using free
weights. It is aimed at burning fat, sculpting lean muscle and
improving overall fitness.
The Fitness Unlimited program includes one personal training
session a week, access to UWA Corporate Fitness classes as
The new corporate fitness program will help you
find a better way of combining work and exercise
well as unlimited access to the UWA Fitness Centre for just $20
a week before salary packaging.
And to make you feel even better, the UWA Corporate Fitness
packages can be salary packaged, which will bring the final cost
down even more.
To get fit, at a convenient time and place, and at a competitive
price, contact Jay-Lee Longbottom on 6488 3077 or check out
the UWA Corporate Fitness site at www.sport.uwa.edu.au
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