Rachel Farrelly is no stranger to working hard, growing up she would spend two hours travelling by bus to get to school each morning. indigenousaustralian medicine
Growing up in a remote part of central west NSW, Rachel Farrelly would spend two hours travelling by bus to get to school each morning.
After sitting her fellowship exam later this year, Dr Farrelly, a Gunu woman who was raised on Wiradjuri country, is set to become Australia’s first Indigenous female surgeon. There are just four operating surgeons in Australia who identify as Indigenous, according to figures from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and another eight surgical trainees in the pipeline. All are men.
“For so many students at med school they have been thinking about medicine since high school, or their parents are doctors. They have spent years preparing for it. That was just so foreign to me.” After graduating from the University of Western Sydney, Dr Farrelly spent her intern and registrar years at Royal Prince Alfred and Dubbo hospitals, then as a doctor at Bankstown, Hornsby, Wollongong, Norwest Private, Wollongong and Sydney Children’s hospitals. She will finish her training at Prince of Wales public hospital in Randwick and plans to specialise in hand and upper limb surgery.
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons NSW chair Dr Payal Mukherjee said the College is “on a mission” to address both the gender gap and workforce inequities faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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