Student Series: Reflections on belonging — Tristan Marino’s journey from music to medicine

What are your pillars of belonging? For Tristan Marino, they are
his Aboriginal and Maori family, his connections to community and
friends and now, medicine as well.


Tristan started out studying music at a conservatory, doing
simultaneous studies in nursing as a career fallback position. He
says he surprised himself to find that nursing in emergency
departments was more compelling, but he found it frustrating not
to be able to answer his many questions about the patients, their
maladies and treatments. The only answer was to become a doctor.
Tristan is now happily working at the rural clinical school in
the regional NSW city of Orange, in a strong and supportive team,
surrounded by the sort of inclusive community for which he has
always longed.


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