RDN Cadet Series: Dr Nicholas Ireland — From Welder to Rural Cadet

Dr Nicholas Ireland’s journey through life to becoming a NSW
Regional Doctors Network Cadet has been a long and demanding one.
Expelled from boarding school in year 11, he first became a sheet
metalworker on what he describes as a subsistence wage. But it
was while he was working as a FIFO welder on oil rigs off the
Western Australia coast that he realised he had to do something
else with his life. So he quit and applied for a university
foundation course and got such good marks he was accepted into
medicine via a rural pathway. This boy from the bush, supported
professionally and financially by the cadetship program, is now
well on the way to achieving his childhood dream of becoming a
rural generalist doctor, planning to settle with his wife in
Dubbo.


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