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“I want every single future doctor to go bush” – RDN Cadet Pip Kensit shares her inspirational story in podcast
21st July 2025
In the most recent episode of Destination Medicine’s ‘Doctors in Training’ podcast series, junior doctor at Orange Base Hospital and RDN Rural Resident Medical Officer Cadet, Pip Kensit, shares her inspiring story of what motivated her to study medicine.
Growing up on a sheep and cattle grazing property between Crookwell and Boorowa and watching her mum be treated for cancer in Sydney multiple times, Pip explained that she always had an interest in health, but developed a strong interest in social justice and the impact of service while studying in boarding school.
This interest saw Pip travel overseas to multiple countries including Cambodia and Kenya where Pip says she realised “health was definitely what I wanted to do”.
“….it was going overseas to see conditions that were worse than our own, that made me think that first of all I need to fix the issues in our backyard. Second of all, you have to have exposure to understand your role and I thought….how can I make my greatest impact here?” Pip said on the podcast.
After returning home, and doing some service projects in Indigenous communities, Pip studied to become a nurse and began practising in rural and remote NSW.
“I knew my interest was rural and remote and Indigenous,” Pip explained.
However, a year and a half later, while doing her Masters and working in Sydney as a nurse, the need to have unexpected spinal surgery saw Pip lying in the patient bed. It was here, as a patient, that Pip decided she wanted to do medicine.
“I studied my tail off while recovering from spinal surgery,” Pip explains.
During this time, Pip was also working a lot with RDN.
“I was in the Future Workforce team for the Rural Doctors Network and that experience only solidified my decision...I was working for, and with, what I now call, my tribe."
As a passionate advocate for practising rurally, Pip said “I want every single future doctor to go bush.”
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