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Transcript of Wagga newsletter October 2013
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Newsletter October 2013
It seems hard to believe the 2013 academic year is drawing to a close. Our Sixth year students have
completed their final examinations. Everything seemed to go well, fingers crossed for when the results
are announced in a few weeks time. I’m sure everyone is busy as it’s the end of the year and we cer-
tainly have a number of events coming up. Everyone associated with the Wagga Wagga campus will
be invited to our End of Year Celebration and Awards Evening on Thursday 14th November. On 8th
November, our Sixth years will host a Graduation Dinner at the Magpies Nest restaurant. This is particular-
ly important since most of graduates will not be able to attend the Graduation Ball in Sydney.
Congratulations to Dr Alex Lim and his wife, Feng, on the arrival of their new son Gabriel on the 26th
September. Fingers crossed that the stars align and Alex and his family move to Wagga Wagga next
year as a fulltime Adolescent Psychiatrist and Academic Tutor at the Wagga Wagga campus.
Many of you will be following the debate here with respect to the Regional Medical School, I refer you
to an excellent article written by Benjamin Veness, president of the Medical Students’ Association, who
outlines the arguments against increasing Undergraduate medical places extremely well and writes
very convincingly that the way forward is to support the current Rural Clinical School model and ex-
pand Postgraduate training places in rural and regional Australia. To read this article please right click
on the link: New medical schools don’t stack up for rural Australia. Hopefully a common sense solution
will be negotiated.
Again, my thanks to everyone involved in the great success of UNSW Medicine in Wagga Wagga and
I hope to see you at our End of Year Celebration on the 14th November. John Preddy
STOP PRESS:
There will be a change of venue for the End of Year Celebration and Awards Evening due to the ongo-
ing WWBH building works in the grounds of Harvey House. It will now be held at the International Hotel
on the corner of the Sturt Highway and Lake Albert Road.
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Year VI Exams 2013
Year VI students have temporarily dispersed to all parts of the world before re-
turning to the RCS to complete the 4 week UNSW PRINT program (Pre Internship)
starting Monday 28 October and finally completing the last of their UNSW Medicine
course requirements on Friday 22 November. We wish all students the best of luck
for their exam results.
The examinations went very well and the RCS is grateful to the examiners who
gave so much of their time and expertise.
We would like to sincerely thank:
Drs’ Michael Payne, Louis Baggio, Mike McCready, Steve Jancewicz,
Shane Curran, Nicole Ring, Mohamed Foda, Joe Suttie, Rakesh Seth, Adriaan Venter, Martin Jude, Kate Gupta,
Ed Darby, Chris Johnson, Steve Wood, Len Bruce, James Masson, Prof Tony O’Sullivan and Cindy Patterson from
WWBH Pharmacy.
Over the recent long weekend, around 100 medicine, nursing and allied health students from around the state in-
cluding Queensland, attended the 7th annual Rural Appreciation Weekend (RAW). This is a premier event on the
Rural Allied Health and Medicine Society (RAHMS) calendar. RAHMS is an organisation for students studying health
related courses at various universities.
RAW aims to expose students from all health-related backgrounds to a rural lifestyle through a weekend away in re-
gional NSW and is packed with speakers, workshops and networking activities. Students gain an insight into health
practise and workforce issues in rural areas.
Included in the program were camping at Wagga Wagga Beach camp site; a visit to the farm of the very hospita-
ble Dr Tom Heaney with a bonfire and dinner, workshops; a good ol’ fashion bush dance, disaster scenarios, and triv-
ia at the pub.
Wagga campus students, Julia Fattore, Francesca Garnett, Sofia Mason, Annalise Bagust and Sally Newton were all
RAW Crew members who had an enormous job putting the program in place. Thanks must go to the many organisa-
tions such as Coast City Country GP Training, HealthWorkforce Australia, National Rural Health Students Network,
RAHMS. University of Sydney, University of New South Wales and the Rural Clinical School for their support.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Dr Chris Mumme, Registrar, WWBH
In 2006, Chris arrived as a keen young Year IV student from Sydney campus. Sydney
was his home town. He stayed on at RCS Wagga Wagga completing his studies
here in 2008 and had settled in so easily that he completed his Internship and Resi-
dency at Wagga Wagga Base Hospital. Following that, Chris took 12 months away
from Wagga to work in Albury Wodonga doing a mixed year of part time emergen-
cy work and… spending some quality time with a special girl based at the Albury
RCS campus.
2012 was a significant year, Chris was back at WWBH as an Anaesthetic Registrar,
an area in which he is pursuing a career. He completed his primary exam that year,
married that special girl, Trudi Beck (then an intern at WWBH) and competed in the Hawaiian Iron-
man event following a heavy training program. The event involved a 3.8km swim (no big deal as
Chris was a national champion swimmer in his teens) a 180km bike ride (he is also a very accomplished cyclist) con-
cluding with a 42.2 km run—an Olympic marathon. Chris finished with a time of 10 hours 22 minutes. To build towards
this peak, Chris had trained and competed in events at Port Macquarie in 2009, 2010 and 2011 as well as Lake Tau-
po, New Zealand in 2010 and 2011 As a student, Chris coached and played water polo with a local Wagga team
while also competing now and then in road cycling.
In April 2013, Chris and Trudi welcomed baby Eloise to their world, perhaps their greatest achievement. They’ve all
settled very well into family life, Eloise is a gentle, inquisitive baby who delights everyone she meets.
For both Trudi and Chris, the future is busy; they will soon move on to Canberra. Chris will undertake Anaesthetic
training at Canberra’s Calvary Hospital and the Canberra Hospital while Trudi will be busy with completing an O&G
diploma for 12 months then GP training in Canberra.
It’s always nice to have a happy ending, so here it is—Chris and Trudi hope to return to Wagga to settle permanent-
ly in just over 3 years time. Everyone at the Rural Clinical School campuses of Sydney, Wagga and Albury and all
those who have subsequently worked alongside them are thrilled by their successes so far and will be very happy to
see them return to Wagga in the future.
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Trudi and Chris with baby Eloise
RAW 2013 wagga wagga
# 2 UNSW RCS PMQ October 2013
# 2 UNSW RCS PMQ October 2013
Year VI RCS Grad Dinner: Friday, 8 November 2013 6.30pm
Magpies Nest, Old Narrandera Road
WAGGA WAGGA
Year VI RCS Awards Evening: Thursday, 14 November 2013 6.00pm
The International Hotel
Cnr Sturt Hwy and Lake Albert Road
WAGGA WAGGA
PLEASE NOTE: The International Hotel is offering a discounted priceof $119 for a King Premium room. For anyone
attending the Awards Evening and wanting to stay overnight, this is a great deal (room only).
Please mention UNSW when booking to receive this rate.
Update: Wednesday, 20 November 2013, RCS Harvey House,
Docker Street, Wagga Wagga
This Update will feature a medico-legal presentation delivered by:
Julie Brooke-Cowden
Claims & Advisory Services (East)
MDA National Insurance Pty Ltd
Student Exams 2013:
Year V Biomed 14 November 2013
Year IV MCQ 25 November 2013
ICE 26 November 2103
Dr Carl Henman is once again taking on the
mountains with his bike to help raise funds for
HeartKids NSW and Childhood Heart Disease.
From the 20th to the 24th November,
20 Riders will take up the challenge and ride the
NSW Snowy Mountains to help raise awareness
of CHD.
The goal is to raise awareness as well as much
needed funds to help Heartkids NSW. This non
government funded organisation works to pro-
vide family support, create awareness, lobby the
government and also fund research into the
causes of CHD. The riders will cover 680km with
9,000 metres of climbing.
Heartkids is a registered charity so if anyone
would like to help support this enthusiastic
doctor on his adventure, your donation would
be greatly appreciated—just check the website.