Congratulations to Dylan Mayer of UNSW, winner of the 2022 ANZAHPE Pre-registration Student Prize (Sponsored by Australian Medicines Handbook)

"It has been a privilege and honour to be a part of the 2022 ANZAHPE Conference, and to have been awarded this year’s Pre-Registration Student Prize for my submission ‘Tossing Away the Too Hard Basket: Faculty-Student Partnership in Advocacy, Design and Implementation of a Gendered Violence Curriculum in Medical School’. This work represents an 18 month long (and ongoing!) collaboration of faculty and students committed to integrating an interdisciplinary, intersectional and trauma-informed curriculum covering sexual assault, domestic and family violence across our six year degree.  

I would highly encourage all students to be a part of the unique opportunities ANZAHPE presents. As medical students, we are not often able to see ‘behind the curtain’ to appreciate the extraordinary innovation and passion that goes into our education.  

In the final year of my course, the ANZAHPE Conference presented a meaningful birds-eye perspective on the learning, and community, that defined the last six years of my life. The role models I have met within the UNSW Medical Faculty will stay with me as continued examples of who I hope to become during my career. Seeing this mirrored across Australia and New Zealand was truly inspiring, and I only wish I had have become involved sooner!"

- Dylan Mayer, UNSW