Podcasts

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You can have it all, just not all at once – Dr Christopher Hayward and Dr Sonja Kauffman

Partners Series
Sep 30, 2026

Dr Sonja Kauffman and Dr Chris Hayward hadn’t planned to build their lives in rural Australia. After meeting at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, what began as a six-month rural placement...

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Know Your Limits. Self-Care in Rural Emergency Medicine - Associate Professor Andrew Dean

Destination Medicine Series Five
Sep 16, 2026

Associate Professor Andrew Dean has built a career around emergency medicine, education and a passion for regional healthcare. Based in Ballarat, his work has taken him into communities across...

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Finding Your Tribe as an Infectious Diseases Physician in Regional Australia – Dr Aiveen Bannan

Destination Medicine Series Five
Aug 5, 2026

Infectious Diseases Physician Dr Aiveen Bannan has spent almost two decades building a career in infectious diseases at Port Macquarie Base Hospital in New South Wales, proving that highly...

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Hooves, Health and Higher Degrees – Natalie Vear

Student Series
May 20, 2026

From suburban Queensland to clinical training in Wagga Wagga — fourth-year medical student Natalie Vear has wholly embraced rural medicine. A former exercise physiologist and postdoctoral...

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Heart of the Red Centre: focus on what you love - Dr Angus Baumann

Destination Medicine Series Five
Apr 29, 2026

Dr Angus Baumann took a long, non-linear journey into medicine, that eventually led him to specialise in cardiology. Now based in Alice Springs with his family, and deeply entrenched in the...

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The Magic of Rural Medicine – Laura Sliskovic

Student Series
Apr 15, 2026

Laura Sliskovic put aside her desire to become an actress and pursue her passion to become a doctor, supporting remote communities with limited access to healthcare. It was through her mother’s...

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Painting your own picture - Dr Pippa Kensit

Doctors in Training Series
Jul 9, 2025

For Pippa Kensit, medicine always beckoned, especially because public health is where her heart is. A passion confirmed early on as she travelled abroad, and then through rural and reginal...

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"Get yourself out there!” – Dr Liam Halford’s advice for going rural

Student Series
Jun 25, 2025

From playing gigs in pubs to delivering babies in the Outback, Liam Halford’s journey to medicine was anything but typical. Growing up in Gawler, South Australia, with no family history in...

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Dr Stefanie Pidcock — a courageous change from climate to clinic

Doctors in Training Series
May 14, 2025

After two decades working to heal the planet, Dr Stefanie Pidcock made a huge change, pivoting to a career of healing individuals in a rural setting. And this ecologist-turned-medic hasn’t looked...

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From crisis to calling — Jack Howard's journey to medicine

Student Series
Apr 4, 2025

A frightening experience at the age of 16 prompted Jack Howard to study medicine. He was on a country road when his grandfather experienced chest pains, and Jack didn’t know how to help except to...

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Rescue missions and rural emergencies — Dr Jessica Martyn

Destination Medicine Series Five
Mar 5, 2025

Soaring to the heights of rural and remote medicine — and not just in RFDS planes — Dr Jessica Martyn has enjoyed an extremely varied and exciting career. Dr Martyn, who is now the Head of Unit at...

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Dr Isaac Taylor – surf and service in South Australia

Doctors in Training Series
Nov 27, 2024

The pristine beaches, the effortless rural lifestyle and participating in a welcoming community. It was all too much for Dr Isaac Taylor to resist. So he’s returned to the place he grew up in to...

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Dr Andrew Moreton – The only limit is your imagination

Destination Medicine Series Five
Nov 13, 2024

It’s hard to beat the regional doctor lifestyle. That’s according to veteran Dubbo GP Dr Andrew Moreton, who has dedicated his career to lifetime care in regional NSW. He’s had the opportunity to...

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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...

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Dr John Floridis — Top End adventures in remote medicine

Destination Medicine Series Five
Oct 16, 2024

There is so much to be learned from the vastly experienced Dr John Floridis, a pharmacist-turned rural generalist and advanced emergency medicine trainee. As well as being a rural and remote...

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A Tiny Town Triumph – Dr Emmy Hennell

Destination Medicine Series Five
Sep 18, 2024

Running her own practice in a “top ten” tiny town, Dr Emmy Hennell is a rural GP in a position to sit back and survey her great achievements, wrapped in the arms of a supportive community. From her...

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“A huge blessing” – Shray Sinha’s well mentored medical journey

Student Series
Aug 7, 2024

Studying in regional Australia is a “huge blessing” according to Shray Sinha, who is undertaking his qualifications in Dubbo, NSW. Shray swapped engineering for medicine to follow his family’s...

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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...

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Dr Ian Carey – being part of the bigger picture in Broken Hill

Doctors in Training Series
Sep 27, 2023

Broken Hill, with its wide-open spaces and desert sunsets, is certainly Dr Ian Carey’s ‘happy place’. Dr Carey's journey to medicine was influenced by his parents, both doctors, and his early...

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Prof Tara Mackenzie — Breathing life into rural medicine

Destination Medicine Series Five
Sep 13, 2023

Professor Tara Mackenzie is an important, and influential, figure in the rural health ecosystem. As Associate Dean of Rural Health at UNSW, and a consultant respiratory physician with 17 years of...

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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...

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I want to do the best I can – Dr Grace Nelson, rural intern and life-long learner

Doctors in Training Series
Aug 24, 2022

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...

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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...

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It’s never too late! Dr Rosie Ross’s unstoppable journey to medicine

Destination Medicine Series Three
Jul 28, 2021

Dr Rosie Ross’s passion to become a doctor started early, but thwarted by circumstances beyond her control, she waited many years before taking the plunge. At the age of 42, she returned to high...

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From the Amazon to Arnhem Land and a commitment to rural health

Destination Medicine Series Three
Jun 30, 2021

A couple of “short stints” in two continents is all it took for Associate Professor Marco to realise his medical calling. Working in the Amazon early in his career left a deep impression, as did...

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Full circle to Broken Hill: rural generalist GP Dr Joshua Crase returns to his childhood town

Destination Medicine Series Three
Jun 2, 2021

Realising that he preferred talking to people than to machines, Josh Crase relinquished his first passion for computing and switched to a medical career. The GAMSAT was a big challenge, but he got...

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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...

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A late starter to medicine finds all-round fulfilment as a Lismore GP

Destination Medicine Series Two
Dec 16, 2020

It wasn’t until Dr David Glendinning was well into his first career as an engineer that he had a change of heart. He decided to try medicine. By that time married life had taken hold, but a stint...

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From Blighty to Broken Hill – and Dr Sarah Wenham has never been busier

Destination Medicine Series Two
Nov 4, 2020

Whoever said a rural life would be quieter? Dr Sarah Wenham started her medical career in the city of Manchester in the UK. After qualifying in palliative care, she moved to Blackpool with a...

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Sally takes Surgical Career off the Beaten Track

Destination Medicine Series One
Dec 18, 2019

General Surgeon, Sally Butchers, based in Lismore, has proved that you can achieve a distinguished career in surgery by working in rural Australia. Sally’s also very happy with a less than 15...

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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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