Life beyond Radford

I moved to Melbourne after taking a position to continue my specialty training at Alfred Health in 2017. The move was worthwhile because the training I've received here has been great. I'm due to complete my specialist training in psychiatry in 2020/2021 and will continue to do some research in the field. I've become really interested in the intersections between physical and mental health, and how these two are heavily intertwined. Psychedelics in psychotherapy is one special interest, and so is working with people transitioning to parenthood (separately!).

I have to admit, learning about the eye with Ms Van Strien (sorry, spelling) in year 9 got me interested in human biology and eventually medicine, and Peter Crossing helped me discover that I enjoyed chemistry.

I knew that I was interested in helping people in some way, but I didn't honestly know how I might do this until several years after uni. Even now I'm still thinking of ways I might go about it (outside of clinical medicine and mental health).

I've reflected on my time at Radford, on the values it instilled in me and many of my friends from back then. Radford's values of truth, compassion and wisdom were and continue to be important core values to me personally. I believe that Radford has an important ongoing mission to espouse these values through formal and informal education, and to produce morally conscious citizens of the world who are interested in helping others for its own sake.

Don't be in a rush to work out what you are going to do after school. If you're unsure and still want to go to uni, do a basic degree that will increase your knowledge of the world and the people and things in it. There's time.