My Rural Story | Week Three | Amani Savi

Amani Savi

My name is Amani Savi. My background is that I’m a registered nurse. I worked in Mackay for five years as a registered nurse and it was there that I decided that I wanted to go back and do medicine. I’ve been at Bond University for five years, this is my final year as a medical student. Since I’ve been here, I’ve been contributing to my passion with rural and remote medicine by being part of the Rural Health Club. I’ve served as the Vice President, President and Treasurer. The Rural Health Club, here at Bond University, is reallyjust tohelptrytoengage students inwhat ruralmedicine isall about. Trying to get them to go out and network with doctors that live rurally, getting them to see a different type of medicine.

When I was a nurse working in Mackay, there was not one qualified Australian trained doctor in the entire hospital and I thought that was pretty poor. Considering Mackay is not even really that rural, it’s more regional and I thought, if we don’t even have Australian qualified doctors in regional areas, what have we got rurally? So, that was my big drive to come back and do medicine so that I could give back to the bush and help close the gap which is something I’m very passionate about. I’ve decided to spend my last year as a medical student in a town called Inglewood, which is a town three hours west, which for a lot of people seems a long way away. I think of it as just a bit of a stones throw away. It’s a town of 1,200 people, it’s a two

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