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In favour of a surgical career outside the capital cities

Associate Professor Kerin Fielding discusses how country areas are uniquely rewarding for surgeons and their careers, as well as being great places to live.

Since 1992, RACS Councillor Associate Professor Kerin Fielding has lived and worked in the NSW Riverina city of Wagga Wagga. As an orthopaedic surgeon practicing in a regional part of the Australia, she's cognisant how health outcomes for people in rural areas are impacted by the lack of facilities and medical professionals. Using her own experience as an example, she'd like everyone to know how country areas are uniquely rewarding for surgeons and their careers, as well as being great places to live.

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  • Podcasts archive
  • Preparation for Practice workshops – Get set for a profitable future
  • Counting the cost of health care in rural & regional Australia
  • Strategies to build resilience, reduce stress and maintain standards of performance
  • Welcome RACS new president, Dr Tony Sparnon
  • Combating the rise of mental illness
  • RACSTA: an important support for surgical Trainees
  • Starting out in private practice – what you should know
  • Celebrating the work of surgeons during NSW Surgeons Month
  • Port Macquarie: Tale of two surgeons in a regional city
  • Benefits of surgical overseas volunteering
  • The story behind surgical separation of conjoined twins, Nima and Dawa (Re-release)
  • The effects of unconscious sexism in surgery (Re-release)
  • To treat or not to treat: the palliative care question (Re-release)
  • In favour of a surgical career outside the capital cities
  • Reflections on frontline volunteering
  • How major changes to income protection insurance might affect you
  • Opening up opportunities for women in surgery
  • Coronavirus cash flow assistance for businesses and what medical practitioners need to know about their own finances
  • Using MALT as an audit tool
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