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first 15 qs, 2nd 10 qs, 3rd 10 qs, cv (Aoun Initiative, Sexual and…
first 15 qs
Central Topic: About Me
Personal Background
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Nickname: Shourty ("short"), Tota (modern version of Fatima)
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Initiative Founder: Aoun Initiative (supporting students, especially in wartime)
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Personal Interests
Hobbies: Writing, storytelling, poetry
Belief: Stories connect people, inspire hope
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Initiative Taken (Q14)
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Identified Needs:
Inability to pay tuition fees, access basic necessities
Financial assistance, study materials, mental health resources
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Result:
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Brought hope, resilience, and community support
Lessons Learned:
Leadership, collaboration, community support
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Central Topic: Strengths
- Communication and Empathy
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Listening: Power of listening, especially in challenging settings (e.g., refugee camps)
Empathy: Builds trust, offers comfort, and reassurance to patients
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Team Building: Collaboration, shared goals, and experiences
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- Dedication to Helping Others
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Initiative Founder: Aoun Initiative for students in financial need, especially during wartime
Core Value: Giving back, central to identity as a doctor and person
Weaknesses
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Example: Weighing too many options in time-sensitive situations (e.g., refugee camps)
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Goal: Become a more adaptable and effective physician, balancing quick responses with high standards
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Vision: 5 & 10 Years
5-Year Goals
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Medical Education: Training residents, enhancing medical education quality
Subspecialty Focus: Exploring subspecialties, identifying a dedicated path
Residency Completion: Internal medicine residency, experience in chronic & complex disease management
10-Year Goals
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Innovative Care for Underserved Communities: Sustainable, inclusive medical services nationally & internationally
Leadership in Medical Education: Influence in clinical training, improving health policies
2nd 10 qs
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"What is your most significant clinical achievement?"*, here’s a breakdown using simple words for each k
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- Context: Shelter in Khartoum
- Risky Environment – Worked despite dangers
- Main Focus – Helping those in need
- Challenge: Malaria Outbreak
- Severe Situation – Many lives at risk
- Lack of Resources – Ran out of quinine
- Outreach – Contacted pharmacies, hospitals
- Mentor Support – Received help with supplies
- Outcome – Secured quinine, saved lives
- Teamwork – Collaboration was crucial
- Communication – Leveraged networks effectively
- Dedication to Care – Reinforced commitment to helping others
- Additional Roles in Medical Convoys
- Leadership – Led medical efforts
- Educator and Researcher – Focused on teaching and studying
- Rewarding Experience – Felt fulfilled in helping others as a doctor
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- Most Significant Clinical Achievement
- Context: Shelter in Khartoum
- Challenge: Malaria Outbreak
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- Additional Roles in Medical Convoys
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Qualities for Working with Healthcare Professionals,”*
- Mutual Understanding – Clear, open dialogue with all team members
- Patient-Focused – Aligning communication to benefit patient care
- Respect & Professionalism
- Supportive Environment – Valuing each person’s role and expertise
- Positive Team Spirit – Respect for various roles and contributions
- Multidisciplinary Collaboration
- Diverse Team – Working with nurses, technicians, lab staff, pharmacists
- Shared Goals – Common commitment to patient care
- Adaptability – Adjusting to meet patients' needs effectively
- Valuing All Input – Recognizing each member's unique strengths
Each main point can serve as a branch in your mind map, visually organizing the key qualities you bring to a healthcare team.
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If You Were Elected as President in the United States, What Would Change in the Healthcare System? (Q23)
Key Focus Areas:
Preventive Care: Focus on community health programs, healthy lifestyles, screenings, vaccinations, reduce chronic disease costs.
Universal Healthcare Access: Ensure access for everyone, expand Medicaid/Medicare, public healthcare options, rural-urban healthcare gap.
Reducing Health Disparities: Close healthcare access gaps for underserved communities, fund community health centers, expand mental health services, culturally competent care.
Lowering Prescription Drug Costs: Advocate for government negotiations with pharmaceutical companies, transparency in pricing.
Improving Mental Health Services: Integrate mental health into primary care, increase funding for programs, high-quality treatment options.
Goal: Build a compassionate, efficient, and effective healthcare system, creating a healthier society.
What Would You Do if You Saw Some of Your Colleagues Drinking Alcohol at Work and You Didn't Feel Comfortable with Them Treating Patients? (Q24)
Key Actions:
Private Conversation: Address the colleagues directly, emphasize focus and capability in patient care.
Escalation: If necessary, report to attending physician or chief residents for further action.
Immediate Assessment: Evaluate the risk to patient care, determine if the situation poses a danger.
Long-term Solution:
Prioritize Patient Safety: Ensure professionalism and safety in the workplace, support team.
Supportive Culture: Promote open discussions about stress, substance use, and work-life balance.
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3rd 10 qs
why me?
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- Early Experience: Witnessed healthcare challenges in underserved communities.
- Inspiration: Sparked passion for healthcare, strengthened ethical commitment.
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- Regions Visited: Different areas yearly.
- Cases Encountered: Diverse, complex conditions.
- Skills Developed: Clinical knowledge, effective patient communication.
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- Humanitarian Work: During Sudanese conflict
- Key Roles: Led Aoun Initiative for student support.
- Skills: Leadership, adaptability, resilience.
- Sexual & Reproductive Health Work:
- Focus: Addressed health disparities, gained in-depth medical knowledge.
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- Attributes: Determination, kindness, reliability.
- Reputation: Known as a fighter, kind personality, supportive presence.
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- Blend of Skills: Clinical + Humanitarian values.
- Unique Approach: Diverse patient connections, dedication to learning.
- Alignment: Matches values of medical community and residency program.
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- Brings balance, depth, and nourishment
- Shows strength and care in medicine
- Adds kindness, resilience, commitment to my work
- Blends with different flavors
- Shows flexibility with patients and teams
- Values understanding and individual approach in healthcare
- Makes a quiet but lasting impact
- Focus on teamwork: listening, helping, lifting others
- Brings energy and strength
- Gives support, encouragement, strength in hard times
- Quiet but dependable presence
- Wants to add substance and warmth to the team
- Hopes to make a real difference
greates sacifise
- Leaving family and home in Sudan
- Letting go of familiar comforts
- To follow dream of becoming a doctor
- Impact: Helping underserved communities
- Emotional difficulty of being away
- Adapting to new places and situations
- Giving up personal comfort and stability
- Built resilience, determination
- Strengthened commitment to medicine
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ethical
- COVID-19 Patient’s Request
- Fears stigma from family, coworkers, authorities
- Requests record alteration
- Need for accurate medical records
- Risks to treatment and public health
- Importance of record accuracy
- Role in personal safety and public health data
- Support through Senior Physician
- Collaborated to address privacy fears
- Arranged counseling for stigma
- Coordinated discrete healthcare resources
- Reinforced ethical commitment
- Importance of social impact awareness
- Balancing patient support with values
"If Not Medicine, Then What?"**
- Alternative Career: Novelist
- Writing allows me to express stories and emotions.
- Drawn to how stories cross cultures, experiences, emotions.
- Exploring the Human Experience
- Themes: Resilience, compassion, struggle
- Similar to medicine, it’s about understanding human complexity.
- Novels, like medicine, examine depth in humanity.
- Both careers require empathy, insight, storytelling
- My interest in literature parallels medicine’s role in addressing diverse human needs.
- Strengths Reflected in Both Paths
- Attention to detail: Helps in both creating stories and in patient care.
- Patience and perseverance: Writing and medicine require dedication.
- Curiosity and growth: Constantly learning, observing, and growing.
- Medicine and literature share a mission to serve others.
- Both give a chance to connect, heal, and inspire on deep levels.
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Aoun Initiative
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Location: Khartoum, Sudan
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- Purpose: Support students in financial need during war
- Growth: Single-person initiative → 20+ employees
- Roles in team: Media secretary, financial officer, case manager, treasurer
- Impact: Helped 65+ students
- Donations: 2.5 million Sudanese pounds in first month
- Current Role: Oversee team, manage meetings, coordinate
- Follow-up: 100+ benefactors, 65+ students/families
- Collaboration: Joined Social Sports Secretariat of Khartoum Medical Association
- Meaningful: Inspired by personal war struggles, shared survival stories, work goes beyond numbers, creating hope
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Research Fellow
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Location: East Lansing, MI
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- Part of active red group in fellowship program
- Weekly discussions with fellows
- Prepared presentations and projects
- Data collection and analysis
- Leading discussions, answering questions
- Working on systematic review research (Carvedilol vs. other beta blockers for heart failure)
- Engaged in discussions on medical technologies
- Provided residency match insights and ERAS application orientation for colleagues
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Tutor and Mentor
University: University of Khartoum, Faculty of Medicine
Location: Khartoum, Sudan
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- Taught peers since first year, using a unique and simple teaching style
- Taught microbiology, pathology, and clinical subjects (internal medicine, pediatrics)
- Engaged students in history-taking, examinations, and case approaches
- Held weekly online sessions for sixth-year students during conflict
- Hosted sessions for Step 1/2 prep and Q-bank solutions
- Conducted sessions on exam strategies
- Now mentor to many students
Medical Intern
Institution: Federal Ministry of Health, Sudan - Ibrahim Malik Teaching Hospital
Location: Khartoum, Sudan
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- Completed internship year, training under supervision in clinical skills
- Worked in Internal Medicine department under senior colleagues
- Took medical histories, performed physical exams, and participated in case discussions
- Engaged in daily rounds, patient care, and family interactions
- Gained experience in diagnostic interpretation, treatment planning, patient counseling, and education
- Interrupted by transport issues and army conflict, then continued providing care locally
Teacher, Supervisor, Book Marathon Founder
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Location: Khartoum, Sudan
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- Taught English (Level 4 class)
- Supervised extracurricular activities
- Organized debates, orientations, festivals, musical plays, and poetry competitions
- Founded a book marathon to promote reading among students, leading discussions and debates on selected books
- Encouraged innovation through thought-provoking books
- Enjoyed meeting bright young minds, which enhanced creativity, communication, and teaching skills
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Background
- Inspired by Dr. Adam (doctor who connected with people despite barriers)
- School as a base for humanitarian work
- Born in El Fasher, North Darfur
- Childhood dream: "I am going to become a doctor"
Challenges & Growth
- Left family early, faced difficult living conditions
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- Volunteering and self-reliance
- "If it is hard, then I must" mindset
Leadership Roles
- Focused on personalizing patient care
- Built deep patient relationships
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Officer
Personal Experience
- Older sister's death due to misdiagnosis
- Importance of doctor-patient role
Medical Education
- Project became vital during Sudan's war
- Focus on continuous learning
- Proposed virtual rounds during political instability
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War Volunteer Experience
- Proudest moment of personal growth
- Managed malaria outbreak, reached out for help
- Volunteered during Sudan war, treated displaced patients
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research
Publications
- Artemisinin-Based Therapy: Compliance of primary health care providers in malaria treatment (Annals of Medicine and Surgery, Aug 2024, Submitted)
- Tuberculosis Knowledge: Attitude and practice in AL-TONDOB village (Health Communication, Sep 2024, Submitted)
- COVID-19 Vaccination: Factors affecting uptake among medical students (University of Khartoum, Mar 2022)
- Antibiotics Use & Resistance: Knowledge, attitudes among medical students (SAMER, Dec 2021)
- Climate Change Health Impact: Knowledge and preventative practices among medical students (Mohammed Abdel Wahab Research Competition, Mar 2023)
- Acute Coronary Syndrome: Gender differences in presentation, management, and outcome (Community Department, Aug 2022)