Doctors in Training: The bush calls to you – Dr Shannon Nott and the adventure of Rural Generalism

Dr Shannon Nott is emphatic in his advice for anyone considering
rural GP training: he says it’s an incredibly rewarding career
path where you get to choose your own adventure. And adventure is
something Dr Nott is familiar with. A Churchill Fellowship
scholar who has travelled to some of Earth’s most remote places
to study the intersection of technology and remote medicine, he’s
now working as a rural generalist, often travelling to remote
outback airstrips with the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Training
in the city, he met and was influenced by “incredible” mentors
due to his involvement in the Rural Health Club at the University
of NSW, and then the National Rural Health Student Network. But
he also gets to quench his desire to work on policy and big
projects through his role as a Director of Medical Services. He
says the bush has always called to him, and he is happier in a
rural environment. He now lives with his family on a property
just outside of his base in Dubbo.


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