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Destination Medicine Podcast

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Opportunities for a successful medical career in rural Australia are immense. The Destination Medicine© podcast library has been created to assist anyone who has thought about a career as a rural doctor to make informed decisions and navigate a rural medical pathway with greater confidence. Each episode of this podcast series brings the story of a doctor and their journey into rural medicine. It hasn"t been a straight highway for many; there have been a few bumps, U-turns and bends along the way

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13:10

Student Series: Senuri Pinto — An outback odyssey

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2023/05/23

Senuri Pinto’s studies in medicine are an example of just how exciting remote and regional placements can be. A medical student fueled by a lifelong ambition to become a doctor, Senuri says she’s drawing inspiration from the emphasis her studies have placed on rural generalist and Aboriginal health. The highlights of Senuri's voyage have been her practical placements in some of Australia’s most remote locations, where she's had the chance to apply her knowledge and work alongside a team to create a

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Student Series: Reflections on belonging — Tristan...

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2023/04/11

What are your pillars of belonging? For Tristan Marino, they are his Aboriginal and Maori family, his connections to community and friends and now, medicine as well. Tristan started out studying music at a conservatory, doing simultaneous studies in nursing as a career fallback position. He says he surprised himself to find that nursing in emergency departments was more compelling, but he found it frustrating not to be able to answer his many questions about the patients, their maladies and

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18:55

Doctors in Training: Community Spirit in the Country...

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2023/03/28

Dr Marty Ryan has certainly found his ‘happy place.” A UNSW graduate who spent the last two years of his degree on a placement at Wagga Wagga Base Hospital, he’s now very happily working as a General Practice trainee in nearby Temora, which is known by some as the friendliest town in Australia. An avid sportsman who is as at home on a bicycle as he is on a rugby field, Dr Ryan says he’s so enamoured with supportive small-town life and his generalist medical career that he now can’t imagine wanting

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10:44

Student Series: Asha Heffernan — Following her dream...

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2023/03/14

Asha Heffernan was raised in Wagga Wagga, but after time spend at boarding school, a year travelling India and then another studying in Sydney, she was somewhat cautious about returning home. But it’s now a decision she doesn’t regret. Asha had always had an interest in pursuing medicine and was encouraged by a best friend who shared her ambition. Stumbling at the first entrance exam, she applied herself to a clinical science degree until she was accepted to medical school in the following year. Now

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17:14

Student Series: Karunya Subramaniyan — Rural medicine...

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2023/02/28

An international student who was born in India and grew up in Kuwait, Karunya Subramaniyan was well into an engineering degree in Singapore when she saw a poster that changed her life. She calls it her “eureka” moment. The advertisement was calling on engineers to consider postgraduate study in medicine, a career path Karunya had always thought was beyond her reach. With extended family in NSW, she applied to, and was accepted by, the University of Sydney. After hearing glowing reports from her

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16:23

Student Series: Suud Nahdi — An international student...

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2023/02/14

His parents were as shocked as they were pleased when an 8-year-old Suud Nahdi proclaimed that he was going to be a doctor, and the little boy from Tanzania grew to become the first in his family to attain tertiary education. It was while he was studying in Canada that he first became interested in faraway Australia, and it was “on a whim” that he looked up Sydney University medical school and put in an application. Several years down the track he says it was the greatest decision of his life, that

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13:38

Doctors in Training: The bush calls to you – Dr...

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2023/01/31

Dr Shannon Nott is emphatic in his advice for anyone considering rural GP training: he says it’s an incredibly rewarding career path where you get to choose your own adventure. And adventure is something Dr Nott is familiar with. A Churchill Fellowship scholar who has travelled to some of Earth’s most remote places to study the intersection of technology and remote medicine, he’s now working as a rural generalist, often travelling to remote outback airstrips with the Royal Flying Doctor Service

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17:02

RDN Cadet Series: Dr Nicholas Ireland — From Welder...

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2022/11/25

Dr Nicholas Ireland’s journey through life to becoming a NSW Regional Doctors Network Cadet has been a long and demanding one. Expelled from boarding school in year 11, he first became a sheet metalworker on what he describes as a subsistence wage. But it was while he was working as a FIFO welder on oil rigs off the Western Australia coast that he realised he had to do something else with his life. So he quit and applied for a university foundation course and got such good marks he was accepted into

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RDN Cadet Series: How Dr Kirbie Storrier found her...

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2022/11/25

When asked what advice she’d give to anyone considering a NSW Rural Doctors Network Cadetship, Dr Kirbie Storrier is emphatic: “Do it, apply for it, 100%, right now, you should have already applied, what are you waiting for?” Dr Storrier had dreamed of becoming a doctor since childhood because her farmer father, who has a chronic disease, had found it difficult to get the treatment he needed. She says she felt incredibly supported through her RDN Cadetship, where she and her partner were treated

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17:34

RDN Cadet Series: Dr Ariah Steel — A Rural Convert

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2022/11/25

Participating on the NSW Rural Doctors Network was a “no brainer” for Dr Ariah Steel, who says she was attracted to the program because of the wide experience she’d gain as well as the financial support. Dr Steel had started out dreaming of being a presenter on a TV travel show, but after doing work experience with an orthopaedic surgeon her mind was instantly changed. Now happily ensconced in the Murrumbidgee Rural Generalist Training Pathway, Dr Steel says that, in spite of growing up in the city,

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18:50

Student Series: Edwina Fry is right where she belongs

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2022/11/15

Edwina Fry was on work experience with a country GP when she witnessed a baby being born. It was a turning point in her life. She says she developed new respect for the human body and started to consider becoming a doctor herself. Now a final-year medical student studying with Deakin University, she came to medicine via an undergraduate degree and entry via the GAMSAT, which proved a hurdle, but not an insurmountable one. Edwina is undertaking a rural placement at Warrnambool in western Victoria,

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Student Series: Pepe Mifsud — Building confidence and...

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2022/11/01

Pepe Mifsud is the first to admit that he didn’t give himself enough credit. Throughout his childhood and formative years he’d watched his GP mother take care of their community, and he’d seen the way she and her colleagues were respected. But Pepe just didn’t think he’d ever be able to get into medicine himself, so he embarked on a commerce degree. Medicine, however, kept calling him, and he decided to study and sit the GAMSAT. Raised a rural boy on WA’s Margaret River, he chose a university with a

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Dr Robin Williams — Keeping Australia moving with...

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2022/10/18

If there’s one thing Dr Robin Williams is proud of, it’s providing medical care to a rural workforce that’s crucial to national food security. Happily ensconced in Molong in the Central West of NSW, and working between the local hospital and his own practice, Dr Williams believes all people — even farmers in remote locations — deserve equity in health care. A London-trained GP who hails from Wales, he decided to move his young family to rural Australia after he and his wife fell in love with the

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Student Series: Ashlee Nichol — Living her dream to...

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2022/09/20

A local emergency doctor called her his “apprentice.” A determined young woman from a country town, who had wanted to be a doctor since early childhood, had done a first aid course so that she could help out at local football games. Many years later, Ashley is a fifth-year medical student at the University of Adelaide who says anyone can follow their dream to become a doctor so long as they have the ambition and tenacity. Now on a placement in outback Broken Hill, she’s a great advocate for working

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Student Series: Georgia Sims — Breaking new ground

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2022/09/06

Few people from Georgia Sims country town had gone to university, and she’d never heard of anyone studying medicine. But with her “anything is achievable” attitude and the support of family and friends, she’s now in her fourth year of a medicine degree, having spent time in the city and in an array of rural placements. Starting out in undergraduate paramedicine, it was while she was volunteering at a music festival that she was inspired by the leadership and the skills of a doctor supervising a

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Doctors in Training: "I want to do the best I can" –...

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2022/08/23

It was sage advice from an English teacher that saw Dr Grace Nelson achieve her aspirations. She was counselled to not only celebrate her good grades, but also work hard to shrink the margin between those good marks and a perfect score of 100 per cent next time. Since primary school Dr Nelson had dreamed of becoming a rural doctor, and, through university, she realised the profession — with its intellectual rigour, contact with people and mission to help and to cure — was a perfect fit for her

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The doctor I was meant to be — Dr Louis Christie,...

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2022/08/09

One of the first NSW Rural Doctors Network (RDN) cadets in NSW, Dr Louis Christie only intended staying in Orange in Central NSW for a couple of years, but he found it far too attractive, both personally and professionally, to leave. He’d quickly made friends in the welcoming community and fell for the regional lifestyle. After identifying the need for an emergency physician in the area, he launched into a speciality that saw him develop a wide clinical competence, as he, among other things, crossed

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Dr Lauren Bradbury — The Holistic Attractions of...

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2022/07/26

Born and trained in the UK, Dr Lauren Bradbury came to Australia to experience new things. A short visit turned into a permanent commitment when she experienced the joys of working as a rural medical oncologist in regional NSW. First thinking about becoming an emergency doctor, and then a surgeon, it was while she was doing an internship in geriatric care that she discovered the professional fulfillment of working holistically with patients. On a rotation, Dr Bradbury subsequently discovered that

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Student Series: Put yourself in the driver’s seat -...

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2022/07/12

Even though he was established in a good job as a radiographer, Will Anderson still secretly harboured what he calls a life-long ambition to be a doctor. He didn’t want to be a “passenger” in the health care system — he wanted to be in the driver’s seat. So, in spite of the fact he’d just invested in a house, he decided to leave radiography behind, and to study to become a doctor. In this episode, Will talks about the huge efforts he went to for GAMSAT, and how it has all been worth it. He’s now

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16:04

Doctors in Training: Dr James Sterrey — finding wings...

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2022/06/28

Dr James Sterrey’s path to regional medicine wasn’t a direct one. As a city boy with a science degree, it was while employed as a research scientist, on Parkinson’s Disease, that he realised working directly with patients, rather than in a laboratory, would be more fulfilling. So, he turned to medicine, and left Sydney for a regional placement in Orange. There he found a collegiate environment where junior doctors were both treated well and given broad enough experience to really find their wings

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