We all shall walk in the path we are destined to walk; becoming a successful and compassionate physician has always been my dream, and it is my ultimate destiny.
I was born and raised in Sudan. Growing up in a close-knit, traditional family, I was taught that people are judged by their integrity and their hard work. These values have served me well in all aspects of my life. I attended medical school at the University of Khartoum, one of the oldest and most prominent medical schools in Africa. Entry to this medical school is highly competitive: about 300,000 high school students sit for a single nationwide exam in Sudan each year. I was one of the top 100 students in 2006.
My journey in the field of medicine started in my early childhood, and one of the most important factors that has steered me on this road is being raised by a physician mother, being able to see the care she provides, the compassion she shares with her patients, the impact she makes in their lives, and the joy she feels every time she saves a life. All of these qualities have sparked the passion for medicine and learning inside of me. But, most importantly, they taught me the importance of giving back, and the difference that one person can make in society by providing quality care.
As a medical student, I had the opportunity to volunteer and organize
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Because of the paucity of the resources in Sudan, I was really intrigued by our skillful clinicians narrowing the diagnosis and management plan, and even finalizing it, using only their skills and wit. Acquiring the knowledge, processing it, and utilizing it, together with mastering the skills of interviewing patients and eliciting clinical signs, is something that I have admired so much in my tutors. All of these efforts to help ailing patients had the deepest influence on me to pick Internal Medicine as the specialty of my