Maggie-Kate will shortly begin studies at the University of New South Wales where she will be studying for a bachelor of medicine and a bachelor of surgery.

It is believed that Maggie-Kate is the first student from Harden Murumburrah High School to be accepted to study medicine since Joanne McIntosh some 15 years ago. Today Dr McIntosh is a paediatrician at the Prince of Wales Childrens’ Hospital.

Eighteen-year-old Maggie-Kate completed her Higher School Certificate at Murrumburrah High School last year.

She scored an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) of 88.05. While the cut-off number for studying medicine is 91, Maggie-Kate was accepted into the course on based on the combined results of her Higher School Certificate, an interview she did last year and the results of an undergraduate admissions test she sat for last year.

“I have always wanted to do medicine, always,” she said this week.

She that said she wanted to work in paediatrics when her studies were finished and that her long term goal was to come back to Harden Murrumburrrah to work in general practice.

Before that happened, however, as a bonded placement she would have to complete six years in a rural clinical school after her completing her university studies.

She will be the first doctor in her family.

Maggie-Kate said her parents, Kate Minogue and Sam Trabant, were very proud of her achievements and that her grandfather, Bernie Minogue, was especially proud.