My Rural Story

As a result of working in a remote area, what are your future plans? My plans are to be involved in remote health for the rest of my career at varying levels. After studying public health, I definitely have a strong interest in that side and I really do hope to go on to become a specialist. I hope to participate in specialist outreach, similar to the outreach model that the Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon I’ve worked with does. I don’t want to be an Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon, so it will be something different. But I definitely hope to be able to do that and I wouldn’t mind doing some time even before that as a Registrar or as a

Training Doctor, doing some remote work and maybe some work with the Royal Flying Doctors in the future as well. I would also like to get involved with health policy, particularly in terms of remote and Indigenous health. I think I do have a reasonable understanding of what it feels like to be on the ground and not many people have that experience of actually beinginthosecommunities,beingadoctor and then also having the policy aspect of it. So, that’s all a bit of a dream. I don’t know how much of that I’ll actually get to be involved in but, definitely, I would absolutely love to continue going on with the specialist outreach and really can’t wait until it’s me there in the Doctor position.

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