The RDAA Podcast Lounge

Relax with RDAA's latest podcasts, including interviews with our Annual Excellence Awards recipients, as well as our latest MDA National and RDAA #DestinationRural Bursary recipients. New podcasts are uploaded regularly, so stay tuned in to ensure you don't miss out!

The RDAA Podcast Lounge is a health podcast hosted by Rural Doctors Association of Australia, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Rural Doctors Association of Australia hosts The RDAA Podcast Lounge, a health show with 16 episodes published.

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  Dr Cheryl McIntyre - RDAA Rural Doctor of the Year 2025

  Dec 7, 202532 minS0

  <p>Cheryl has served the people of Inverell and region as a Rural Generalist Obstetrician for more than 25 years. With a deep commitment to medical education, she is a Senior Lecturer in General Practice at the University of New England and plays a pivotal role in training and supervising medical students, junior doctors and GP registrars at her practice and the local hospital. This has included being one of the key drivers behind an innovative program bringing medical students to Inverell and nearby towns for six month placements, as well as being a strong local facilitator of a NSW Rural...

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  Dr Jean Littlewood - RDAA Rural Doctor in Training of the Year 2025

  Nov 12, 202542 minS0

  <p>Jean is an absolute dynamo of Rural Medicine, and the phrase she coined – ‘Guilt is not a rural recruitment strategy’ – has taken on a life of its own! Now in her final year of Rural Generalist training with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM), she’s already contributed to the work of numerous organisations, including serving for 3 years on the Rural Doctors Association of NSW’s Management Committee. One of her most impactful contributions while on that Committee was the part she played in gaining a fairer deal for NSW’s rurally-based Junior Medical Officers (JMOs) when they unde...

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  Eiryn Twidale - RDAA Medical Student of the Year 2025

  Nov 5, 202547 minS0

  <p>Eiryn is a final year medical student from Griffith University who sought out the opportunity two years ago to relocate to Kingaroy, in rural Queensland, to undertake her training as part of RuralMedEd’s LongLook program. She’s also been working as a nurse at the local hospital. As you’ll hear, she and her fiancé Luke jumped boots and all into local community life from their first week in town…and they’ve made an enormous impact.</p>

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  Dr Arron Veltre - RDAA Rural Doctor of the Year 2024

  Dec 9, 202457 minS0

  <p>Arron is the first ever permanent Palliative Care Specialist at Taree, in the beautiful Manning Valley region on the NSW Mid North Coast. Raised in outer suburban Melbourne, his passion for Rural Medicine began with a six week medical student placement he undertook 25 years ago – also in Taree! After working for six years as a GP, Arron took a new career path into Palliative Care – a field of Medicine that, in his own words, had petrified him as a student, as he’d felt powerless in the face of the dying process – but he hasn’t looked back, learning what reall...

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  Dr Jessica Paynter - RDAA Rural Doctor in Training of the Year 2024

  Dec 2, 202430 minS0

  <p>Raised in rural Victoria, Jessica’s training to be a Rural General Surgeon…and she’s a real dynamo! A strong advocate for increasing access to rural healthcare and expanding rurally-based training, she has led the way in training and working rurally during her own medical career, and in doing so has encouraged numerous junior doctors and medical students to follow suit. She’s also driven the development of quality research on rural medicine – particularly rural surgery – knowing how important this is in both fighting against the centralisation of care, and advocating for better investment in rural health services.</p>

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