3. Benefits

For the government & rural communities

• Provides an incentive to prospective medical students to apply for and accept bonded places
• Provides an incentive to BMP students to apply for the JFSS
• Promotion of rural medicine to student doctors who are obliged to work outside of cities anyway
• Preparing such students for future rural practice and extend their geographical comfort zone
• Boosts current BMP student morale
• More efficient use of taxpayer funds
  

For BMP students

• Demystifies rural medicine for BMP students who are often not of rural background
• Clinical experience
• Mentorship by a rural practitioner
• Development of a relationship with a community where they may work in the future
• Prestige of the scholarship
• Financial incentive