UNSW is helping to address the lack of Indigenous doctors in Australia, with a record intake of Aboriginal students enrolled in the undergraduate medicine program this year.

Six Indigenous students have enrolled in first-year undergraduate medicine at UNSW. This takes to 13 the number of Indigenous people in medical training across the six years of undergraduate study.

There are an estimated 90 doctors in Australia who are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, with a similar number in training.

"I'm really excited," said 18-year-old Brendan Phillips, of Coffs Harbour. "I'm really passionate about Indigenous health and making a difference to my people.

"I want to work in rural communities as a GP," said Brendan, who is the first of his immediate family to go to university.

All six of the students were accepted through the Indigenous students' medicine entry program, run by the Sydney campus of the Rural Clinical School and were welcomed by the Dean of Medicine, Professor Peter Smith.

The program is run in conjunction with Nura Gili.

For more information on the program, go to the website