Graduating From Medical School — An Unimaginably Exciting Moment.
Successfully finishing what you start comes with overwhelming joy!
Around 5 pm yesterday, I combed through my WhatsApp groups in search of messages I may have missed during the day, and I came across a digital flier with these words: ‘CONGRATULATIONS Class of 2022’. My eyes opened wider, and I think my pupils may have dilated too as I felt a surge of joy bubbling from my stomach to all other parts of my body. Finally, the 6th-year students were qualified medical doctors now! Wow!
Nostalgic memories of them began to trickle in my mind as I remember when I used to see them around the school’s faculty area as 2nd years and a year later, 3rd year students, and also shared a hostel with them when they were in 5th year until they were carried away to another hostel near the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH). Then, they became scarcer as they hustled about in the hospital to complete their medical training in their final year. Even though I had very few acquaintances among them, I could feel their collective joy and sense of achievement as I glanced through their photos on others’ WhatsApp Statuses.
These photos had some of them looking like specialists already. It was a wonderful sight as I saw the ladies slay in stylish cooperate wear in their glam makeup as each of them dripped with beauty — and the guys looked dapper and handsome. Others posed with well-fitted and excellently designed scrubs, individually and in groups. They could easily pass as professional models for a high-end fashion brand! It was a classic class photoshoot.
I texted some of them to congratulate them, and I could clearly read the joy in their responses. I really wish that 5 to 10 years later, they would be living their dreams as specialists in their chosen fields and gradually fulfilling other visions they may have. In short, I wish them good success!
Of course, all these made me wonder how my day of finishing med. school will be like. I know for sure I would be crazily excited — the enormous adrenaline rush I felt at that thought is more than enough evidence!
So, two years from now, I would be a medical doctor — that means, my society would expect me to know everything about the human body as if that’s possible. I can already see my parents and other relatives holding their shoulders high in pride, at having their first medical doctor in the family, while I am left to deal with all the pressure it comes with. Nevertheless, I still look forward to that graduation day.
I think this is the exact morale boost I need right now to tough it out as I prepare for my last exam for the academic year, before entering 5th year.
After all, if these past 6th years have been able to successfully grind their way through med. school, why can’t I?
Signed, Richeal.
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