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Kloppo:
Jota,midfielder?

False 9 I guess....more like firmino

Before i start my story..I hope to inspire some of the medical students...Or students planning to study medicine and are having issues...

My Story So far.,

After graduating from secondary school.. I couldnt get an admission into my dream school University of Ibadan to study Medicine.. My life felt like it was gonna end.. My world kept shattering.. My family gave me no breathing space..I wasnt free to do any of my fun activities..I was grounded for months and weeks.. Until i had to sit for the next jamb... I sat for the next jamb..and still got no admission...

All thanks to God.. i gained admission into a Caribbean Medical University.To study my dream course medicine... Let me Highlight How Medical school works in the Carribean.. Its a total of 4years.. You spend a yr doing Foundation classes.. (PreMed). And then you spend 2 years doing Basic Science..Where proper medical school begins.... I scaled through every class and every course.. I finished both my foundation and my basic science classes... To start my clinicals in the States..I had to go back to Nigeria to apply for a US visa.. I got B1 visa successfully..and without much stress...thanks to my school

The moment came when my future was to be defined... I was registered for the board exam.. United State Medical Licensing Examination.. Passing this exam was gonna shape my future.. Failing it was gonna crush everything i built from my Nursery School days.. I sat for the exam after spending 4months studying..The first challenge for me was motivation. So Before the exam, I watched all Kaplan Medicine videos (also watched surgery, psych videos, a few important obgyn and peds video). Then I took a baseline NBME where I scored 191.

It showed the videos weren't enough for me to be prepared for my step 1....iI sat for the main exam.. USMLE Step 1.. And i scored 230... I was on the edge.. I thought the score was bad.. till my Dean called me directly..And congratulated me.. YH.I knew my dreams were slowly coming through.. I began my 72 weeks clinical rotations at Jackson Park Hospital Chicago.. I took my step 2 examination after my clinical rotations..And i scored 242..A pretty nice score i was proud of..
After all the reading and late night sleeps.. And constant anti depressant helps.. I got a nice hospital for my residency program..Where the money started popping in cheesy cheesy cheesy grin grin grin ...From there..I knew my life has begun..My dream has come thru.. I went back to my alma mata.. Encouraged students and gave them tips on how to pass the board examinations.. And surely..I would also want to help my fellow nairalanders that are following the same pathway...

Am a state licensed Doctor.I have been practising for 3 years now..Paediatrics Surgery is my specialized field of medicine. The only problem i have is little time... And..i guess am not just ready to build a family till my workload drops a little bit... wink wink wink wink.. And i hope the woman of my life..Walks into my life..anytime soon...hehe..
The only time i have..I spend it on nairaland wink wink..Reading all the possessed threads.. cheesy cheesy cheesy..

If u also need help following dis same pathways..i can always be available for assistance and advices.. ADIÓS

Lesson: Dont give up quickly..And never settle for less..Always aspire for the top.. If i had given up after failing to get admission twice... I would have been studying maybe Agricultural science... (Patients Are calling**** cheesy cheesy cheesy
I just hope i inspired someone..


Garner 2014

James150:
Please good evening everyone. My question is can I apply and get Direct entry to medicine with my college of nursing certificate. I finished school
nursing last year November. Even if it's a private university. Do you think is possible and acceptable.?

Bro...pls start practicing as a nurse, why do you wanna go back to medical school after a nursing degree?...why not move abroad

OsilaGama:
but y is it so?

Glitches from jamb I guess

OsilaGama:
.ohboy urgent reply.
when i login to my jamb portal and i change the exam year to 2022 i discovered that i was unable to insert my registration number,so i couldnt see if my o'level result was uploaded successfully

I'm facing same problem

Vitamin17:
Lol no be small tin boss. But online I saw one private uni at abia state and the fee was 500k so I called dia number to enquire more. I was shocked when the man told me is not 500k that is 1.6 million naira, that they want to increase it self . Omoh I just end the call. I can't rite delsu post utme I hate aptitude test die. Make I check ansu sha

The UI you choose write post utme na....abi aptitude test different?

CONCLUDING PART OF STRESS AND MEDICAL SCHOOL: PART III

THE WAY FORWARD

As medical students and future doctors, you have to learn how to survive and look after your emotional and psychological wellbeing. Stress is going to be your middle name. How can you possibly cope? What should be done?

Interventions have to be on two levels:

A) College-wide intervention efforts: Orientation for medical students, support in pre-clinical school including evolving the roles of Demonstrators in Anatomy for example, Seminars for Lecturers towards improving the study/work environment – and specifically eliminating emotional and verbal abuse e.t.c. The Dept of Psychiatry can also provide counselling and support mechanisms – including training and utilizing volunteer peer counsellors in every class. But this is outside your control so they remain recommendations for the College to consider and possibly implement. Professor Olayinka Banjo Omigbodun is the Head of the College Counselling Unit. Dr Adefemi Afolabi, Immediate Past CMAC has recently started co-ordinating a Mentor-Mentee training workshop for all teachers, residents and student representatives. These are positive steps in the right direction.

B) Individual efforts: I will focus more on this aspect, because these are practical things YOU CAN DO. My suggestions are by no means exhaustive, so feel free to comment and add to the list. What worked from my experience include:

1. Take control of your life and emotions: Your happiness and emotional wellbeing is in your hands. No one else owes you. It is not the responsibility of your classmates, roommates, family or teachers to make you happy and comfortable. They can lend you a helping hand, or make it easier (or more difficult as the case may be), but the onus ultimately is squarely on your shoulders. And no one else.

Eleanor Roosevelt was quoted as saying that “No one can make you feel inferior, without your permission”. Similarly, no one can make you unhappy without your permission.

You can’t control how others will treat you, but you CAN control how YOU REACT. And this is a lesson for life: In your family life, neighbourhood, work environment e.t.c.; you can only do your best but it may not be good enough. You will be unfairly criticized, humiliated or unappreciated. What will you do? Get angry, feel humiliated, stop trying, give up? Or shrug it off and keep trying to be a better you, every day of your life? Since the school environment is outside your control, the challenge is for you to keep your head above the water and make progress. How? By controlling how you react to adverse situations. Besides, tough times don’t last forever, good times will come around again. So enjoy the experience and the journey. Lament less, and learn to laugh at yourself.

2. Power of friendships: Cultivate friends who will always have your back, and invest heavily in your relationships. Enjoy every single day that you draw breath, appreciate your friends, roommates, family and so on. What helped some of us through medical school was a strong band of friends who became brothers and sisters over the years. We went through thick and thin together – marching on like soldiers. I believe in investing heavily in relationships, because you never know when you will be down and need to draw on that goodwill to help you. No one can go through life without ever needing to lean on another’s shoulder at one point or the other. The religious groupings and the former Arhema provided much needed camaraderie to many.
And when you graduate, and get married, treasure your family and invest your emotions and time on them. When your career is over, and you become a stranger on the corridors where you once held sway, you may have nothing to fall back on besides family.

3. Get a life: Have friends outside medicine, and engage in extra-curricular activities to enrich your life and distract you from work related events. Sports, social clubs and the arts, are possible outlets for de-stressing. Ibadan Medical School is particularly blessed with a wide array of student organizations where you can acquire additional all-round skills. I particularly recommend THE FORUM, which is a student organization that is focused on the acquisition of leadership and management skills. Conflict of Interest Disclosure: I was a member of THE FORUM, and it contributed immensely to my all-round learning. DOKITA, PlayHouse, Sinfonia, Press Organizations are other alternatives.

Go to UI and watch entertaining shows by students of Theatre Arts Department. Join the University of Ibadan LOM of JayCees. Participate in inter-block or inter-group activities. Join the Debating Club. Follow current affairs. Learn history and all sorts of odds and bits from individuals who have a knack for them. If you are not particularly good at sports, you can be very good as a member of the supporters’ club. Have fun and celebrate life and being alive. It is a gift. Treasure the moments and memories.

4. Avoid taking drugs and substances: It is very easy and often very tempting to turn to drugs and take something that would make you forget the stress and just make you feel good. The dangers include addiction and negative health impact. Some people smoke cannabis, others take alcohol or smoke cigarettes. Cannabis is particularly risky as it may be helpful initially but may cause a chronic syndrome characterized by a lack of motivation (Amotivational syndrome). Believe me, this is the last thing you want to happen to you, as a medical student – to lack motivation. Even when highly motivated, it is a struggle to make progress. If you lose the motivation and no longer care about anything, it will be an uphill task to persevere and succeed.

5. Look at the big picture and stop taking yourself so seriously. Nothing in this world is worth your happiness. The things that appear so ‘huuuge and bigly’ now, will pale into insignificance in a few years’ time. So just give it time. If you feel so terrible because you failed an exam today, do some honest introspection after the inevitable pain and disappointment subsides. Subsequently, resolve to work harder instead of feeling sorry for yourself and feeling humiliated. If you then passed the following year, would it really matter in 10 or 20 years’ time? I can assure it would not. I ‘lost’ 2 years as an Engineering student before coming back to medical school, but if I did not tell you now, would you know? And in the grand scheme of things, does it really matter who graduated before the other? I can bet you that what truly matters is whether or not you are happy and fulfilled, regardless of when you graduated or what specialty you are in.

6. Lastly, if it’s not working for you, CHANGE it: It is never too late to change. Never be afraid of change. Pursue what makes you happy, I know doctors, graduates of COMUI, who graduated MBBS and then decided that what they have always wanted was to become a pilot and have gone to aviation school afterwards. Others have gone into Banking, Health Economics – including a classmate who is now a Health Economist at the World Bank, because of his outstanding brilliance in the field of Health Economics. Some others have completed Residency in one specialty only to change their minds and pursue another specialty. Some changed mid-way during Residency. Bottom-line: whatever makes you feel alive and gives you joy, pursue it. Don’t let the looks of ‘are you crazy’? How can you abandon residency? How can you change after passing Part I? You will be seen as a failure e.t.c. hold you back. Some have left Nigeria after Residency to start all over abroad. A few others have done the reverse journey - albeit, a much fewer sample.

In conclusion, I leave you with good wishes from Tai Solarin: may your road be rough. But I hasten to add: May you come out at the end, unscathed, smiling, wiser and stronger…..and none the worse for the journey. Hopefully rejuvenated, skilled yet humble and compassionate. Dedicated to the service of humanity. And God help us all.

Jibril Abdulmalik
Consultant Psychiatrist, UCH, Ibadan.
Thanks you all... famocious copied

STRESS AND MEDICAL SCHOOL. PART II

As the stress of preclinical school builds up to a crescendo, different coping styles are deployed. Everyone studies as hard as they can, but many more turn to religion and become even more devout. Hopefully, their righteousness may earn them favour with God and Divine Grace may just be the tonic to help them overcome the examinations. Discussion groups in the mosque (CPMSS), chapel (NCCMDS) and the Catholic Group (FECAMDS) witness an upsurge in attendance, as well as dutiful religious observations. Others turn to drugs and start smoking or drinking alcohol. Eventually the exam comes and goes. Written papers: check. Practicals and steeple chase: check. Orals: check. Phew. Now the interminable wait for the results that will determine whether or not you are UCH bound (passed all three courses) or you will have to write a resit (passed two and needs to re-write one in 6 weeks’ time) or you failed and have to repeat the year (failed 2 or all three courses). The tension is palpable and eventually, D-Day arrives and the results are posted on a board at NISER park. The entire University community will soon become aware. Commotion, chaos, celebrations for the lucky ones, while for the not so lucky chaps, they simply disappear from their rooms in the hostel and go into hiding. And in my time, there was no mobile phone to contact people.

And here, ladies and gentlemen, is where the story begins to get interesting. What if you failed and now have to join a class below you and repeat a year? Or you have a Resit to write? This is particularly stressful because of the reaction of former classmates – some of whom will stop talking to you and put on airs, or outrightly mock you to your face. You may also be getting ‘attitude’ from your previous juniors who are now classmates. Most people struggle to fit in and cope and very few resilient folks achieve successful assimilation. Why is this stressful? Challenges in life would be much easier if it were not for the fact that most people would feel free to run a commentary and to rub it in. Snide comments, sniggers, looks, ‘attitude’ there are many ways of making you feel inferior and bad. But again, that is if you allow them get under your skin. So, do not hide, hold your head up and go about your business. If it becomes clear that you are unperturbed and focused on your studies and on enjoying your life, people will leave you alone.

CLINICAL TRAINING
Finally, you have passed the MB examinations and you arrive in UCH with your shining white ward coats, ties and with a stethoscope dangling over your shoulders. You have arrived in the hospital, finally. Doctor in the house. Where are all the patients, so you can display your expertise in Anatomy, Biochemistry and Physiology? You start Clinical rotations in small units and you are attached to your consultants and their teams. On Day 1, you are asked to grade finger clubbing and provide 20 differentials. And you are completely befuddled. The word ‘Differentials’ will soon become a particularly dreaded one at ward rounds, and no matter how hard you study, you always seem to end up getting questions about the areas you did not read. Hardly any ward round ends without you feeling like a completely ignorant fool.

Some of the Consultants and Teachers were super amazing. Wonderful and inspiring teachers. Some Senior Registrars also stamped their authority and left their imprints firmly on our memories. I would’nt want to mention Consultants who were nice and those who were not, but I can mention the Senior Registrars (at that time oo, now distinguished and very senior colleagues all around the world) who were outstanding in their cool, down to earth but stuffy manner. Notable mention: Dr Olubowale (don’t think I ever knew his first name, but he was SR to Prof Adebamowo in Gen Surgery Unit III). Then there were Dr Yomi Salawu of Orthopaedic Surgery; The epitome of cool – Dr Ibrahim Imam of Neurology; Dr Chris Aimakhu (Obs & Gyn); Dr Femi Omololu (Obs & Gyn) and Dr Adamson of Paediatrics – to mention but a few. My classmates will relate very well. They simplified and truly helped you understand. They inspired and encouraged us. But a significant proportion of teachers also specialized in epic put-downs and humiliations – as they tell you every day that you will never make a good doctor, because you are not intelligent enough, unbelievably stupid and you are too clumsy.

You struggle to cope with the rotations. Just when you were becoming comfortable with Medicine I posting and getting to grips with the expectations, the end of posting test is upon you and then you are off to Surgery. And then Paediatrics, ENT, Psychiatry, on and on until you are dizzy. By now, you have completely forgotten about how semesters work, as Clinical studies do not include holidays or breaks - save for public holidays. You also begin to understand that you will be writing examinations (End of Posting Tests) every 8 weeks for the next 4 years of your life. Deal with it. And to compound the pressure, you also have to deal with death and patients that you can see irreversibly going down and the entire team is helpless – especially when they have terminal conditions. Or a woman with infertility challenges who finally attain pregnancy after 10 years but suffers a still birth at 35 weeks of gestation. You clerked and had become her friend and so she grabs your ward coat amidst tears, and demands answers from you: “But Dr why?” But you have no answers. You return to your hostel and struggle to hold back tears and to clear your mind but you are sad and helpless. You dread going back to the ward to witness any more of her devastation and misery. These are generic clinical experiences.

How about when you have other problems and challenges?
You may have financial worries, background family problems, emotional burnout, depression, or turn to substances to help you cope and no one will even notice that anything is amiss. If you stop coming to class, or turn to drugs, chances are that your fellow classmates who are obsessional and finicky about always doing the right things will start turning up their noses at you. You may see the look of scorn and condescension in some of their eyes: “look at this never-do-well who also wants to become a doctor. How did he/she even gain admission?” Very few, will offer you emotional support without judging you. These select few are the stand-out angels who appreciate early on what our collective humanity means. They will seek to understand and help you out. They exhibit a high emotional IQ and they go on to become brilliant and compassionate doctors – who go beyond understanding the pathology of the illness of their patients but also offer support to the human being you were (with a life and a story, hopes and aspirations e.t.c.) before the onset of the illness. The illness does not define who their patients are, so they know better than to focus exclusively on the illness. They would rather try to establish a rapport with the human being in front of them and build on that relationship in trying to organize treatment for the illness. But then I digress.

The last major stressor is having an emotional breakdown and having to receive treatment for depression, psychosis or substance use. Or suffering from a chronic condition such as sickle cell disease or epilepsy. Upon your return, back to school and the hostel, many students may be afraid and unsure about how to relate with you and so stay away…. especially if it was an emotional breakdown. This can be very painful, to experience stigma and discrimination from your own peers and those you hitherto called your friends. But the key to survival is again not to hide, and become reclusive – that only reinforces the stereotype. The best cure for stigma is social exposure and interaction. If they interact with you regularly for a week and there is no problem, they are more likely to drop their guards and become relaxed than if you hide away and avoid all contact with classmates. Of course, classmates can also play a role to help them re-integrate better. And this is what I would like to encourage us all to do: treat others, the way we would like to be treated if we were the affected ones.

Why is it so easy to fall through the cracks?
Because you don’t really belong in any particular department. Rather, up until you pass your Pathology and Pharmacology (Path & Pharm) Exams, you are still SHARED by two Faculties: Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences (FBMS) and the Faculty of Clinical Sciences (FCS). Once you scale Path & Pharm, you then become the sole responsibility of the FCS. However, you don’t stay in any Department for long enough to establish any roots per se. Eight weeks and then you are off to another unit. Thus, if you go missing in between postings, or your behavior changes, the new unit would assume you have always been like that. Thus, it takes the Class Rep following up and notifying the Sub Dean before anyone realizes that you are missing. The Department will probably flag your name only if you don’t appear at all for the posting and also fail to appear for the End of Posting Test.

Unfortunately, the vicious pressure circle only gets worse after graduation. Indeed, the higher you go, the greater the pressure and responsibilities on your shoulders. From your Housejob, through Clinical Practice as a GP or during Residency and Specialist practice. The consistent features are those of immense pressure, emotional stress, hard work, little sleep, and feelings of inadequacy. You will have no weekends or festivities sometimes, due to emergencies. But postgraduate clinical practice and its challenges is a story for another day.
Your family will become accustomed to your frequent absences. And yet, you will never be among the richest people in the community – even though you should get by. You are well-advised to jettison any fantasies of stupendous wealth from the practice of medicine.

So, brace up and be prepared for a life and career that will take its toll on you and your family. But is it all doom and gloom? Do I regret for instance, my choice of becoming a medical doctor? Absolutely not. The joy and thrill of helping a human being in need, of making a correct diagnosis and helping them achieve a solution, the transforming power to be an agent of healing, the job fulfillment and satisfaction is huge. The humility of having other people confide in you and express their innermost fears, trust you implicitly by agreeing to strip and allow you conduct a physical examination, listen to you with rapt attention and knowing that your words and conclusion about what is wrong with them and the way forward are very weighty indeed. This responsibility and the thrills (when everything goes well…) is best experienced than imagined. But the converse is also true - no matter how much we keep a straight face, we become emotionally invested in the well-being and recovery of our patients. We suffer with them and their families when things don’t go well. (Credits for job satisfaction as a Dr: Dr Femi Omololu, who wrote something along these lines some time ago and it resonated very well with me).

The concluding part III covers what you can and should be doing to reduce stress and help you overcome and enjoy the journey through medical school.
copied ..... famocious

STRESS AND MEDICAL SCHOOL: PART I

I was privileged to be invited by THE FORUM, alongside one of my teachers, Dr Achiaka Irabor, to have an interactive session with Clinical Medical Students of the Alexander Brown Hall of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, yesterday, 25th March 2017. I was to address specifically, how to cope with stress in Medical School, while Dr Irabor spoke about looking after their physical health and well-being. My talk was in two parts: What are the causes of stress in medical school (Pre-clinicals and then Clinicals), and then how best can we cope with the situation? Happy reading.

Every year, several young, fresh, overly eager and brilliant minds gain admission into the available medical schools in the country. Each and every one of them, confident and self-assured, and about to commence the biggest journey of their life…. towards becoming a world-famous physician/surgeon who would revolutionize the world. After all, he/she (the male pronoun is used subsequently, but applies to either gender really) is already a celebrity in his family and his secondary school. His SSCE results and JAMB scores were out of this world. All the sleepless nights and hard work laboring tediously over past questions and struggling to solve all the exercises in 3 different physics and chemistry textbooks have paid off. He is here now, and it is official: He is now a medical/Dental student of the University of Ibadan.

During the orientation and registration process, he is eager to show off and ensure that his other classmates recognize him/her as a true superstar. So, he brags to the quiet guy in front of him on the queue that he scored 72 in Chemistry, which was very tough in that year’s JAMB. But the guy smiles and informs him that he scored 78. What? Someone actually performed better than he did? Is that even possible? After all, he is the most brilliant student ever to have passed through his school….his Cowbell and JET Competition laurels attest to his brilliance. Anyway, slightly ruffled but still eager to establish his superiority, he then enquires about his new friend’s score in the other subjects and then realizes with a sinking feeling that he performed consistently below this quiet, unassuming guy. His confidence takes a hit. After a week of trying to compare stripes with a couple of other medical students, he is truly humbled and his ego and self-esteem takes a major hit.

Afterwards, lectures start and quite a number of lecturers seem to derive sadistic pleasure from reminding the class that even though their admission letters bear Medicine and Surgery/Dental Surgery, their names are still written in pencil as far as the University is concerned. This is because, they are required to pass the requisite 100L courses in order to successfully gain promotion into 200L where they begin to take actual medical courses (Anatomy, Biochemistry and Physiology). “Some of you will have your names erased after 100L and you will have to look for other courses and complete change of course forms, thus ending your dreams of becoming a doctor. Therefore, don’t jubilate yet, you have not yet arrived.” So, for the entire first year in the University, the confident self-assured youngsters scurry around to ensure they excel in the pre-requisite courses and have their names written in ink, rather than being erased. As predicted by the lecturers, some students drop off at this stage.

After successfully scaling this hurdle, you proceed into 200L and 300L. Here, you are bombarded with the precise details of the origin and insertion of various muscles, innervation (nerve roots and branches), embryology, and histology. Histology is particularly tough, as you agonize over the microscopes and struggle to make out features that appear so distinct in your Wheaters textbook but appear blurred on the slide. Until you become experienced at memorizing the images or your eyes ‘open’ under guidance from the tutorial instructors. You struggle mightily with the Kreb and TCA cycles as well as the intricacies of the physiology of all the systems. And you are constantly reminded that only half of your class will eventually succeed in passing the almighty first MB exams that will qualify you to cross over as a Clinical Medical Student. This comes with the ‘perks’ of relocating to the University College Hospital, wearing ward coats and carrying a stethoscope around. While the fantasies of life in UCH are dangled before your eyes, the first Anatomy test is suddenly upon you. Traditionally, this takes place on the 31st December – perhaps an ingenuous way of making nonsense of the Christmas break and an opportunity to visit family (and to replenish your self-esteem with adulations from family).

You were all surprised at the intricate details you were expected to master and came out shaken from the Hall. The results come out within 72 hours and the results are staggering. The highest score was 41. Your score was 23. And then the whispering starts. Maybe it was marked over 50, instead of 100. And then it dawns on all of you that it is clearly written on top of the results that it is out of a possible score of 100. So, the entire class failed the test. Everyone goes into mourning and the rat race to pass the first MB and ensure you make it to the promised land (UCH) starts.

Serious discussion groups spring into life, and most students begin to explore how to reduce sleep to no more than 3 hours on a daily basis. Many discover the joys of coffee and bitter cola while some others are even more adventurous. Pervading the renewed vigour to study and remember hard facts across three major courses (Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry) is an overwhelming fear of failure and anxiety: Am I truly good enough? Is it possible to really commit all these details to memory and recall them when needed? A crisis of self-confidence ensues, and is not helped by the show-offs who would have spent the entire night memorizing a particularly difficult topic and will come to class in the morning to bamboozle everybody else with their off-hand delivery of all the things they had studied overnight. Yet failure is NOT an option. Your parents and family friends have started calling you doctor from the day your admission letter arrived. How would you go back home to face everyone and admit you were not good enough? You remember the pride in your mother’s face as she beamed with joy at your matriculation and the smug smile of satisfaction on your father’s face. You imagine their crestfallen faces and their disappointment, and you resolve to give it all it takes.

Your plight is further worsened by the realization that you are in essence, required to cover essentially the same material and in great detail, over 3 semesters, what other students require 3 years to master in order to gain a BSc in Physiology, Biochemistry or Anatomy. Thus, the pressure stems not only from the difficulty of the material, but the sheer volume you are required to cover in seemingly no time. Not everyone is suited to high octane pressure that is unrelenting. Poor coping mechanisms begin to surface. A few more students begin to crack under the pressure. From mild problems, such as anxiety and worry, to more serious issues such as depression or psychotic break downs. Others suffer silently and experience emotional turmoil and pain but maintain a façade of normalcy. They are the ones who are learning fast about how to succeed in medical school: bottle your emotions, your worries and personal problems; focus on the task and perform – no matter the cost. Of course, some students again drop off at this juncture and never make it to UCH.

STORY PAUSED: Does this mean that everyone who gained admission to study medicine and surgery and subsequently withdrew voluntarily or could not cope are failures? Absolutely not. I know quite a few who have gone on to make an outstanding success of their lives in other areas of human endeavor. It may be due to several factors: a). They should never have come into medicine in the first place but parental and societal pressure as well as poor career guidance and counselling combined to put them in this situation. Their strengths lie elsewhere and they can be super brilliant and exceptional given the right situation. Or b). They are very brilliant and truly wanted to study medicine but simply could not cope with the pressure. Without the pressure, they would have done very well and excelled.

Therefore, two questions come to my mind here:

1. Can we do something about providing adequate career guidance early in secondary school?

Indeed, this is actually not all about Medicine. My personal story was an ill-fated misadventure into Engineering, due to poor counselling and peer influence. I was in the secondary school class designated for the best science students and we were the only ones offering Further Mathematics. And all my best friends were determined to study Engineering and our Further Mathematics teacher actively encouraged and fueled this interest. I joined the bandwagon and ended up as an Engineering student of FUT Minna (1993/94 Session). But I had enough self-awareness to immediately realize I had made a mistake. I was not as thrilled by the prospects of Engineering Maths and solving problems using calculations for the rest of my life; as compared with the opportunity of exploring the workings of the human body. Additionally, I have always loved studying human behavior and so the prospect of interacting with individual human beings – all of whom will be unique in their own ways was a strong attraction for me. So, I quietly sat for JAMB again, without telling my folks at home and chose Medicine and Surgery in UI. I gained admission and resumed in 1995. And I am happier for it now, while my folks and childhood friends from Okene who continued with Engineering are also happy, breaking grounds and doing excellently well. They include: Ahmad Sadiq, Lasisi Salami Lawal, Kovo Abdulsalami. Ahmad is a serious Entrepreneur, CEO and software Engineer while Lasisi and Kovo both have PhDs in Engineering from top UK schools. So, the key is finding what gets you so excited that you are happy to be up and about every morning that you wake up. They understood their calling while I foolishly tagged along.

2. Can we reduce the pressures of medical school and make it more humane and user-friendly?

Starting from better orientation and support systems from pre-clinical school and through clinicals. I will say YES, most certainly.

To be continued.
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Vitamin17:
@sf123 you have hope here boss merit for this varsity is 65 you have 249 or so.. All you need do is destroy post utme and you stand a chance. 249/8 around 30 or so then post utme score like 85/2 around 40 or thereabout. 30+40 equal 70. The main thing is post utme. I might be wrong sha

Bro how far which school did you apply to?

Minemrys:
After signing Darwin Nunez, Klopp knows he no longer has any excuse not to win the Premier League.

We need midfielders bro

openmine:
Liverpool reject second Mane bid
Liverpol have reportedly rejected a second bid from Bayern Munich for Sadio Mane.

The German side saw their opening offer worth £25m (£21m plus £4m in potential add-ons) rejected and have now returned with an offer of £23.5m with a potential of £6.5m in add-ons.

Multiple outlets, including the Times and Mirror, have stated these add-ons would only have been achieved should Bayern win the Champions League and Mane claim the Ballon d'Or in each of the next three seasons and was therefore laughed off by Liverpool officials.

The Times state the Reds' sporting director Julian Ward is using £42.5 million as 'a benchmark figure for negotiations'.

Mane should leave jare

Johnlegacy57:
fellow med students help me and thank God. I just concluded my 3rd MBBS exam. I passed.

Congratulations sir.... can't wait to join the noble profession

qtguru:
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-Your profile picture is bland. Please change it.

-Your portfolio looks amateurish.

-I believe video and animation is what you do. Is it the same as video editing? Anyway, I’ll advise you to keep the heading at just Video & Animation. The rest are the tools you work with, so list them further in your profile. You can list them out as your proficiencies;

Music
Adobe
Final Cut Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro

Others can pitch in, but that is what I noticed at a glance as I do not know anything about your niche. I also hope your profile is 100% complete and you are searching for jobs the right way.

I'm actually a video editor, thanks for the correction I've modified the profile, I'm new to Upwork don't really know how it works so I had to put those skills
My niche is YouTube video editing, I can edit an intro and promotion videos... thanks ma'am https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01fe4e3a2bed37cdc7

N2B2:
The problem some budding Upworkers here have is their presentation: they can't sell themselves, even those who are pretty good at what they do.

On Upwork, a freelancer's profile overview is just as important as their portfolio, in my opinion. How you describe yourself and your skills play a significant role in how prospective clients view you.

Here is half of your profile overview:



Honestly, it's boring, bland, and poorly written — red flags that'll make even the worst clients on Upwork avoid you.

Let's go through the bold text:

1.) A professional (noun, not adjective) is adept, competent, and knowledgeable in their practice. If you use the word, you must portray yourself as such.

2.) A range of experience? Explain. How long have you been doing what you do? As Pocohantas asked, what do you even do? Video editing? Animation? If animation, which one — 2D or 3D? Why is the word "Adobe" in your title? Do you use Adobe Reader to edit and/or animate too?

3.) What "latest" video editing software can you use? What "latest" video editing tools do you have? What "latest" video editing techniques do you have? Are you up-to-date with animation, too, or is it just video editing?

4.) Looking to grow? Aren't you already a professional (or, at least, trying to portray yourself as such)? Clients need experts who will come and make an instant impact, either solving their problems or even going steps further to exceed their expectations. No one wants a learner, and you must never portray yourself as such. If you were looking for a plumber to fix your tap, would you prefer a youth who is just learning or an expert?

I know the criticism may seem harsh and even overwhelming, but these are things you should take note of if you want to get ahead of your competitors on the platform.

Good luck.

Thanks for this sir, I've modified the profile, I'm new to Upwork.... thanks for the correction sir

qtguru:
First the barrier to entry for Video Editing is hard, because I manage my brother's profile.

1. My main advice, learn Adobe AE because at least you can sell the idea of creating montage with VFX and other effects
2. Offer to jazz up Youtube Videos, and offer subtitles and other transitions
3. Offer services of Video touch-up and post-production
4. The quality of your work is a bit based on local trends, try and adopt visual inspirations from Youtube since your client are mostly international.
5. Position yourself to touching Tiktok videos and Youtube


Learn more tools

Adobe AE , AE Plugins like Animation Composer


All the best bro

Thanks sir, I'm almost done learning after effects, all my projects was done with premier pro....you seems to know much about video editing....the only place I know is Upwork is there any site I can offer YouTube video adding and TikTok aside Upwork?
Can you connect me with your brother pls?

pocohantas:
Jayreemai, are you using your search and filter extensively? What is the main service you are offering?

Pls upworker...help me view my profile.... it's been a while on Upwork but I don't know where I'm getting it wrong
https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01fe4e3a2bed37cdc7?viewMode=1

Clinton39:
No, read his post again, he said someone checked for him.
The person probably lied to him. And again the guy requested for 500 naira for an sms that cost 50 naira. Sounds like a crook to me.

oh. my bad

Adranido:
So i decided to go print the original result since the score was nice....to my greatest surprise my expected 296 was reduced by 54 marks...i saw 242 i refused to believe it was my result...after i've been celebrated by alot of people for the initial 296...i'm currently down my depression...i thought about changing my course to Med lab or Pharmacy,but i'm afraid i don't have the passion for any of those...pls someone should help me, can 242 get medicine in unical? and what score should i aim at in the post utme pls...MY ADVICE TO EVERYONE IS: look before you leap..

Chairman pls I'm confused ooh, I mean when you checked with the SMS via UTMERESULT you had 296 now you went to print original jamb results you saw 242 how come?....has anyone also experienced this anomaly from jamb?

Silentgroper:
Fvck that.. We need a new cb too.. If klopp knows he wont play matip, he should better get us a better and experienced cb.. He should have konate playing cup games..

Baba like u no watch the match.... using matip last night would have been a disaster, we could have conceded 2-3 goals..... but u choose to ignore the obvious and clear reason we lost which was our attack.... combination of Salah , mane is not good enough for us.. it was obvious from the first half origi would have done better than Jota removing Salah would have made our forward shoot more ball easily.... Salah selfishness with his stupid R2 cost us the match.... and why on Earth is Keitha still doing in Liverpool?

We lost due to
1) Inability of the midfielders to shoot outside shots.... imagine debruyne in that match...no Liverpool midfielders has accurate outside shots.
2) Arnold should be more vigilant his wing is Liverpool weakness everyone knows that...I mean that left back wing is most vulnerable
3) inefficient attack having multiple on target without converting one.... guy we needs a Sharp striker olohun.....jota na flop.... Salah is too selfish.

In summary we need
LB, Standing 9, RF(Salah's position), creativity midfielders.
It's well with us next season

Mane +Dias played rubbish... Salah is too selfish..No problem with the defense system
Mane+ keita + need to leave ASAP..we don't need stupid players, Madrid didn't play shit
Next season we move.

Silentgroper:
what do u mean by we dnt use a number 10.. Mane wears 10..

i do agree origi isnt great at passing though.

What he meant by not using 10 is that we don't attack from the midfield...a team with 10 is the likes of PSG, Chelsea, Barcelona, City... Liverpool attack is from the wing back.

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Risentouch:
Why are you resurrecting this thread na?

Nostalgia feeling

Silentgroper:
I hope this cavalho guy plays the rw.. Cause it looks like salah might be exiting come this transfer window since we wouldnt want him to leave 4 free.

cc: lordsagna

We actually need cms and just dm.. We have a.m's that's playing at wide at d moment even bobby's true position is d a.m .. So lets just get a true 9 which i think we dnt necessarily need. A true 9, a right winger, cm, dm, rb and cb is what we need right now but cm is most important..

Well, I think Salah is going because Liverpool is not ready to increase his weekly wages to what he desires , well not that Fabio is Old, he's not just flexible and loses ball easily.... what Liverpool need is RW as Salah wants to go, CM and DM our defense is quite okay it's just that midfield......well as for RB.... Arnold is still the best RB Liverpool can ever get...I just hope klopp does the right thing.

huh.

Silentgroper:
Thiago likely nt to feature against madrid...


Choi.. Only if tchouameni is available.. I dont have much confidence in keita, curtis too..

Keita, Curtis Jones are a big joke to Liverpool's midfield especially Jones ..... aside Thiago, Henderson and Fabio Liverpool can't boast of second team or team B midfielders which is our Achilles heel, if we want to contest for titles league next season we need to sign an attacking midfielder and a DM cos Fabio is getting old and rigid, take city for example take a look at their midfield I mean too many flexibility and driving ball round players unlike us that our midfield is just full of inaccurate passes.... thanks to Thiago made a slight difference.... klopp should work more on that midfield next season unless we'll always be a points or two below City at the end of the season.

Great thread

MelaninGold:
Good evening house. I'm vying for medicine and surgery in uniport. I need advice. Scored 254. I'm aware this score isn't good enough, however, there is still post UTME ahead. I need honest advice on what to expect in the exams, grading system, how are questions set. Just anything.
Everything is welcome, especially from students, medical students particularly.
Thanks.

Go for nursing ma'am, Success to all aspirants.

TonyStark2:
Hello, if not to bother you, I'm weighing my options on what to do, so, in all humility, may I ask what your JAMB score is?

Just few marks above 300
What a about you?