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Meet Ashleigh
Born in Melbourne, Ashleigh spent the majority of her childhood and teenage years in Canada before returning to Australia for her university studies.
“I think a lot of who I am came from me navigating these two different cultures simultaneously and learning to take the best aspects of both with me,” she says.
Majoring in neuroscience during her Bachelor of Biomedicine, Ashleigh planned to pursue a pathway in neurosurgery or emergency & crisis care.
I enjoy high-stress situations where each patient has different presentations, so I thought ED/crisis care would be interesting – but I’m keeping my options open.
Ashleigh explains that it was also her experience of her mother's illness with cancer that played a significant role in her decision to pursue studies in Biomedicine and Medicine.
“We were living in a rural town in Canada at the time – it exposed me to the limitations of rural medicine in an entirely public system. Since then, I always had medicine in the back of my mind, and it was a natural thing for me to apply to medicine once I came back to Australia.”