Meet the Frontier! Editorial Team
Bridget Marshall
Throughout the six years of my UNSW medical degree, I have spent 50% of the time in Port Macquarie, at one of the five rural campuses my university has to offer. I have gained so much experience doing my clinical placements in a smaller hospital – a place where everyone knows each other, and every set of hands is needed. Having grown up in the country and now having studied in a rural area, I am passionate about sharing with others the wonderful life people can lead living and working in the country. I have always enjoyed art and writing as hobbies outside of medicine, and so I saw being a member of the Frontier
team as a way to engage in my hobbies whilst simultaneously promoting the rural lifestyle that I love. It has been wonderful working with the team to produce two excellent editions of Frontier!
Having constantly moved around Australia during my childhood, the decision for my family to have eventually settled in Wagga Wagga said it all: there’s nothing quite like country life! However, of course, the challenges of being rural become all the more evident when it comes to healthcare, as I saw the list of issues from our public health lectures have very real impacts upon my own family, friends and community – it impressed on me the importance and the privilege of becoming a doctor and an advocate in this tight knit community.
Nipuni Hapangama
Being an avid consumer of Frontier! myself, it was inspiring to read the stories from the people facing those very issues head on, while also portraying the overlooked raw beauty of rural medicine, especially from our own student community. The opportunity to join the editing team for Frontier!, to celebrate the mix of science and humanity in a rural context with this amazing team of authors and editors, was one I couldn’t possibly forgo. I hope you find something inspiring within these pages too, just as I have!
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