Scholarships

Australian Orthopaedic Association Prize ($100)
Awarded to the most outstanding second-year Bachelor of Prosthetics and Orthotics student who achieves the highest aggregate score for all prosthetics and orthotics core subjects offered in that year.  

Australian Orthotic Prosthetic Association Inc. (Victorian Section) Prize
($75 La Trobe University Bookshop Voucher and student membership to AOPA)
Awarded to the most outstanding first-year Bachelor of Health Sciences and Master of Clinical Prosthetics and Orthotics student who achieves the highest weighted average for all first-year subjects. The prize consists of a $75 La Trobe University bookshop voucher and student membership to the Australian Orthotic Prosthetic Association until the completion of the student’s degree (including Honours if applicable).

EH Armstrong Prize for Services to Lower-Limb Amputees Prize
($250 La Trobe University Bookshop Voucher)
Awarded to either a Prosthetics and Orthotics postgraduate student or undergraduate student in recognition of contributions to the care and management of lower-limb amputees.  

International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO) Prize
($250 La Trobe University Bookshop Voucher and student membership to ISPO)
Awarded to the most outstanding third year student as judged by the results of third year prosthetics and orthotics subjects.

Robert Gardner Memorial Prize
(Text book to the value of $350)
Awarded to the student or students who achieve the best results in the third year subject, POR3ISP Independent Study Project.  The prize consists of a Text book ‘Atlas of Orthoses and Assistive Devices’ to the value of $350.

Otto Bock Clinical Excellence Award
(Travel and accommodation to Duderstadt, Germany)
Awarded to the most outstanding third year student in the Bachelor of Prosthetics and Orthotics who achieves the highest grade average across all second and third year clinical subjects.  The prize consists of travel to, and accommodation at the Otto Black Academy in Duderstadt, Germany to undertake a two week workshop in Prosthetics and/or Orthotics including two days at the Otto Bock Science Center for Medical Technology in Berlin. 

For enquiries on the above prizes please contact (03) 9479 5815 or email: ncpo@latrobe.edu.au