Why an Internal Medicine Residency Is Right for Me

Growing up in a rural Sudanese district, I saw many of my people facing huge struggles in accessing basic health services and getting tested for various diseases. There is also the medication shortage and lack of clear public health policies due to governmental disputes amid massive economic crises and civil war. These unfortunate circumstances refined and fostered my drive to pursue a career in medicine to help in bridging the gaps in health services while promoting awareness about significant health issues.

My decision to choose medicine as a career is an outcome of many factors. I have always admired the noble job that the physicians are doing, and I consider this as the primary reason for intending to venture career in medicine. Additionally, the unpretentious veracity of the enormous amount of knowledge, incessant progress in inventing treatment, and their fascinating capability to cure diseases: never stopped to mesmerize me. During medical school, my preference for medicine is rooted further while studying different aspects of human physiology, anatomy, pathology, and clinical medicine.

having the opportunity to see patients during undergraduate clerkships helped me to explore different practical aspects of medicine besides academia.

I started my postgraduate life by doing 1-year of an internship program in Ministry of health (SUDAN). I have seen a lot of patients during this period, each one of them had a different background, stemming from the broad cultural, economic and social diversity that is considered the main theme in my country. This had created an environment featuring diverse conditions in medicine, surgery, pediatrics, and obstetrics.

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Internal medicine appealed to me the most and each patient I encountered helped me refine my history-taking skills and honing my physical examination skills.

I energetically involved myself in creating and reviewing plans for patients using updated guidelines, advancing my clinical reasoning abilities, and performing a variety of diagnostic procedures to grasp hand-on experience, all under the supervision of very knowledgeable and skillful specialists and residents. I also went extra-mile and volunteered to work additional duties with my colleagues as we spent a lot of time discussing different and interesting pathological conditions while following up on the patient’s status.

I have always believed that building a healthy community is the backbone for the progress of every nation, this belief led me to actively participate in raising awareness about important health issues through community outreach programs, where we provide different health services including health education sessions at schools and places of community gathering, free testing for common diseases and providing free medications to disadvantaged rural areas. Those programs were funded by charitable organizations and the medical student’s association at the faculty of medicine-University of Khartoum. Aiding the less fortunate societies have an incontrovertible affirmative impact on the quality of life and it fetches smiles to their faces, which I found to be extremely rewarding and motivating.

Knowing that medical education is a crucial requirement to advance the clinical career to its highest, I decided to seek a position of teaching assistant in the department of microbiology at my Alma mater – faculty of medicine, the University of Khartoum which is considered the oldest and the top-ranked medical school in Sudan. This part of my career has helped me a lot in gaining confidence, enhancing communication skills, and integrating my clinical and academic pursuits.

Joining St. George’s University as a clinical tutor has a tremendous influence on shaping my communication skills due to the cosmopolitan nature of staff and students. My main duties are to facilitate high-quality student-based tutoring during small groups and interactive team instructions organized by the departments of pathophysiology, pharmacology, and clinical skills, besides providing constructive feedback on student performance. Organizing and participating in clinical assessments and examinations including OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination), which follows the same format of USMLE Step 2 CS for the 2nd year medical students is a great opportunity to assess communication skills and integrated clinical knowledge that they have learned.

Completing the postgraduate certificate of medical education (PGCME) program provided a great opportunity to learn about interesting topics in medical education such as professionalism, principles of small and large group teaching, basics of assessment, evaluation and feedback, exam, and item analysis, research ethics and methodology. PGCME also helped me to get accepted in the Massachusetts general hospital certificate course in foundations of teaching, learning, and assessment (MGH HPEd), which is a one-year program sponsored by St. George’s University to handful candidates each year.

I want to get the full benefit of the high-quality training in internal medicine during the residency program and to make use of all skills and knowledge that I will be acquiring to help in building a healthy community and foster training for medical personnel interested in the domain. I am very determined, resilient, compassionate and I believe I am going to be a good asset to the medical team, all under the faculty’s constructive guidance and successful training.