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Flying high — Dr Scott Lewis’ journey home to regional SA

Destination Medicine Series Five
Oct 30, 2024

If you are planning to practice in an area the size of South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula, it helps if you buy a plane and learn to fly. That’s how Dr Scott Lewis brings crucial GP and anaesthetist...

Training a new generation in rural anaesthetics – Dr Robert Easther

Destination Medicine Series Five
Aug 21, 2024

An ambition to find a challenging position in life, where close teamwork and hands-on experience go together, has led Dr Robert Easter to an incredibly interesting and varied specialist career. In...

Dr Rebecca Irwin — Growing roots and doing rounds in Central West Queensland

Doctors in Training Series
Mar 20, 2024

Dr Rebecca Irwin has planted her flag in the town of Barcaldine in Queensland’s Central West, and it’s here she intends staying. As a rural generalist based at Barcaldine Hospital, she can’t...

The Accidental Generalist: Dr Kayla Mizzi, Manjimup WA

Destination Medicine Series Five
Nov 22, 2023

Born and bred a city kid, Dr Kayla Mizzi has transformed into a passionate rural generalist working in the tiny town of Manjimup in Western Australia’s far southwest. In this episode, we follow...

Dr Kerrie Stewart — The best of both worlds

Western NSW Local Health District Series
Jul 5, 2023

A country girl with a passion for caring for both people and animals, Dr Kerrie Stewart says being a rural GP affords her the best of both worlds. Not only is she raising her young family on a...

Community Spirit in the Country – why Dr Marty Ryan chose Rural Generalism

Doctors in Training Series
Mar 29, 2023

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...

Dr Ariah Steel — A Rural Convert

RDN Cadet Series
Nov 26, 2022

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...

Dr Danielle Winch — Sold on Psychiatry

Destination Medicine Series Four
Jun 17, 2022

Fascinated by what she calls the “mad” characters in children’s’ books, Dr Danielle Winch knew that she wanted to be a Psychiatrist when she was just eight years old. Her initial ambition was to...

Dr Jeremy Curtin - The Ophthalmologist who’s always had eyes for the country

Destination Medicine Series Four
May 4, 2022

Dr Jeremy Curtin is living his life-long dream: raising a large family in a regional city just minutes away from a specialist practice. He says he is enjoying the best of two worlds by...

Dr Dominic Horne - Mentors Matter

Doctors in Training Series
Apr 20, 2022

A country boy from the boots up, Dr Dominic Horne was brought up on a cattle station near Wee Waa in northern NSW. Now part way through training to be an anaesthetist, he dreams of one day...

Dr Patrick Dwyer — Transforming Regional Training

Destination Medicine Series Four
Feb 23, 2022

Taking the skills he learned in the city to a new environment, Dr Patrick Dwyer is a prime example of how one individual doctor can make a huge impression in a regional setting. He’s dreamed of...

From birth to death, and in between - Dr Madeleine Kelly has come home to care for her community

Doctors in Training Series
Jan 26, 2022

Dr Maddie Kelly knows what she wants, and she goes and gets it - even if it takes longer than expected, and especially when she's told she can't do it. What has helped in achieving her goals is...

Rural or city? For Georgia Cunningham, rural is more rewarding

Doctors in Training Series
Dec 1, 2021

When Georgia Cunningham was studying medicine at The University of Sydney, she applied for all the rural rotations it offered. It led her to the central NSW town of Dubbo, where she felt welcomed...

Medicine is not a race – Dr Joe Duncan: Winemaker, Teacher, Physician

Destination Medicine Series Four
Nov 18, 2021

Dr Joe Duncan’s path to medicine was more unusual than most. He was a winemaker working for leading labels in both Australia and overseas, including Alsace and Chablis in France. He swapped the...

The slow percolation of a medical career: Dr Rachel James’ journey to GP Obstetrician

Destination Medicine Series Three
Apr 21, 2021

At the start of her career, Rachel James wasn’t at all sure about medicine. Arts Management seemed more likely and that’s where she headed. But the passion wasn’t there and the idea of medicine,...

Dr Alice Henschke’s perfect career as rural Intensive Care Specialist

Destination Medicine Series Three
Mar 24, 2021

Medicine was in her genes, so was her plan for a regional destination. But specialising in intensive care? That wasn’t part of the plan for Alice Henschke – until she tried it, loved it, and then...

Travelling full circle – from birth to geriatric specialist at Shoalhaven Hospital

Destination Medicine Series Three
Feb 10, 2021

Dr Katie French was born in Shoalhaven Hospital, in Nowra, New South Wales. Now she’s back at the very same place, working as a specialist in geriatrics and committed to serving the community where...

Talking SKIN – and the demand for dermatologists in rural Australia

Destination Medicine Series Two
Mar 4, 2020

Australia may have one of the highest skin cancer rates in the world, but where are the dermatologists? It's a big issue in rural and remote areas where demand for skin specialists is high and the...

From championship rowing to emergency medicine – Dr Daniel Stewart's circuitous journey to Dubbo

Destination Medicine Series Two
Feb 20, 2020

In retrospect it was the perfect vocational choice. But Dr Daniel Stewart just didn't know it as he rowed hard and fast for Australia, chopping and changing university courses before finally giving...

The conversion of a sceptic - Dr Sean Hogan's road to rural practice

Destination Medicine Series Two
Feb 5, 2020

When Dr Sean Hogan was seeking a placement for the last two years of his degree, Wagga Wagga was right at the bottom of his preference list. Reluctantly he took the placement. That was in 2010....

Lights, action, and far reaching places – a mega-directional career in medicine

Destination Medicine Series One
Oct 25, 2019

Tim is an aeromedical retrieval specialist, a GP Anaesthetist and a film maker. Only two years after graduating from medicine, Tim felt disconnected from who he really was and took a break from...

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