Last Friday I presented our Club’s Dr John McDonald Medical Scholarship to Madeline Burrell, a 6th year Medical student from the University of NSW who is at their Rural Clinic at the Base Hospital.  It was great that Margaret McDonald also came and spoke.   It was a great privilege to present Madeline with the scholarship on behalf of our club. She is a truly deserving recipient. She comes from Gilgandra where her family are farmers and have been in drought for a number of years. Madeline decided she wanted to be an obstetrician when she was 14 !! She did all her schooling at Gilgandra.  She is very keen to work in the regional areas and the scholarship funds will definitely help her in her studies.  There were about 30 medical students at the presentation and Margaret spoke to them about John and really engaged with them so they got a sense of who John was and how he spent the majority of his career in a regional area.  Madeline will come and speak to us at one of our meetings. Thanks again to Vicki and Roger S for organising the scholarship for 2016.