Lythe Badran '19 Recruiting Profile

As a high school student, choosing what to study in collage isn’t a decision that can be taken lightly due to the fact that my future depends on this microscopic decision. Medicine isn’t a career that I wanted to do from a young age, actually it was a life changing event that made my interests divert towards working for this career.

I have done plethora research about medicine in my country, I found numerous local hospitals that offer an internship for high school students, which I really enjoyed and I had the opportunity to inspect and explore different medical departments such as A&E, Radiology, Cardiology, Orthopedics, Gastroenterology and Neurology.

During my internship I had the chance to see the variety and diversity of specialties medicine comprises. An opportunity shadowing different doctors was hugely informative about the daily life of a doctor. During the day I sat on consultations from A&E cases to spinal cord surgeries.

Throughout my time there, the doctor's absolute interest in his cases and unhesitant motivation highlighted to me the privilege of having such a stimulating profession. This, together with the accelerate nature of a career in medicine, was brought to the fore by a patient who was struggling with his daily life and job due to constant Myocardial infarctions. The ease with which the doctor approached and dealt with the matter also accentuated the importance of a warm, approachable manner and an ability to communicate to a person on their level of Myocardial infarctions understanding. I believe I have achieved these skills and obtained invaluable experience from the eccentricity of being in a room with a patient who is asking for your ability to help and guide him to cure.

In my free time I enjoy playing basketball with a local professional team and with the school’s team, which I am currently the captain of.  We used to play against different teams with different skill groups. The challenging trainings and games demanded teamwork and trust to advance to a better level of gameplay and perform effectively as a team; as well as right decision-making skills in stressful situations. Also, through this activity and the people I met, I got closer to the doctors who taught me first aid skills and how to treat several mundane injuries caused by basketball games. I learned from my Busy schedule to manage my time effectively and order my priorities properly. With the long daily hours of practice in addition to my study, I noticed that I accomplish more within such intense schedule.

Other activities I did during the primary and high school includes music where I was a member of the schools’ band for 4 years playing Tuba and Sousaphone, I played with the school volleyball team for 1 year, I have also joined the schools MUN program representing United Kingdom discussing the prisoners’ rights, and performed as a model in the school’s first fashion show as community service project that had General Motors as its sponsor. Furthermore, I participated in art contest, represented the school for Olympic games between the country schools and got my ICDL certificate.

I discern that the career is exhausting and the hours are independent and long and that it might a bit antisocial, and is by no mean the alluring easy source of money that it is often anticipated to be, these are sacrifices I am willing to do in order to become a medic. However, medicine is passionate job that needs both heart and brains, which I have both. I want to become a medic because my propensity is faithfully scientific, also due to a past event in my life where I literally took care of my deceased uncle, who suffered from brain cancer and stayed for almost a year at our house to feed him, train his muscles and give him medications and handling shifts with my dad to supervise him in the hospital and that was where I studied for my O level exams which ended up in results I was not proud of and had to resit for most of my exams after his sad death, it took me a lot of courage to overcome this trauma which changed my view of life and made it even more precious. For me studying long years trying to understand the scientific world and gaining more knowledge, followed by a lifetime of learning and practicing medicine sound like an adventures career option, and a far cry from the monotony some jobs pose. As an eminently social person, I would desire a career such as medicine that would create sympathetic relationships between me and patients. Finally, I know I have the charisma, capacity for hard work, and the growing mindset needed to succeed in such a fruitful lifework.