I'M GOING TO MEDICAL SCHOOL WITH 3 D's AT A LEVELS😲😲💃🥳🥳😭😭😭🗣
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I whittled it down to 4 Universities and I got into Univeristy of Nottingham!!! 😯😲😲🥳🥰
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Because my A levels let me down I was always so conscious I had to excell in other areas of my application (I was determined to show them I'm smart damn it!😭😊).
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I am grateful for those Gradute Entry Medicine Universities that overlook A levels and give incredible potential doctors a second chance👌🏾🤙🏾
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On that note..........
I HANDED IN MY NOTICE TODAY AT WORK💃💃🥳🤩 I've been keeping my medical school acceptance under wraps because I had to finish up a few things at work but it feels surreal to finally say it out loud 😋😭
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Medical school with 3 D's at A levels??!!!
🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
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Okay 👌🏾
I got a first in my undergraduate degree✔
Worked my ass off with arranging and doing valuable work experience✔
Living a balanced life with extracurricular activities✔
Wrote an outstanding personal statement that had been proofread several times by my biggest critics✔
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SO....... which uni's do I apply to that can just skip my shocking a level grades 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
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I had only 4 universities to apply to (not that I was spoilt for choice 😭😂)
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When applying to medical school I was so frustrated by how many graduate entry medicine courses STILL focused on A levels despite requiring a 2:1 or 1st in your undergrad 😭😭 (they just couldn't let me erase those 2 years of my life🙄)
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I thrive on making scary decisions
2014- I got 3 D's at A Levels, got into university through clearing by the skin of my teeth
2017- graduated with a first class degree in Biomedical Science, started my masters
2018- My dad passed away, I had to drop out of my masters, support my now single mum
2020- sat the GAMSAT exam twice and failed, in a 6 year relationship
Late 2020- I GOT INTO MEDICAL SCHOOL!!!!
BUT....
160 miles away from my boyfriend, friends and family I'd created all during COVID
Not been an easy journey but it has GOD has ALWAYS had me!
Being a doctor was everything to me so when I achieved that I felt like I was finally complete
Then I got pregnant in my first year of training...
I was nervous
Scared
Anxious
Worried
I was going to be taking a break from something I had worked so hard to achieve
What if I couldn't get back into it
What if I forgot everything
Then my baby girl arrived..
None of it mattered
I made a whole human
I'm nurturing a whole being
I've done one of the hardest things by getting into med school in the first place
So I'll just regroup, knuckle down and do it again
This is for 24 year old me who felt her dream was slipping away with time and age...
When my dad passed away in 2018 I was looking through his texts and I came across a message from my uncle who was explaining to my dad that if "Iyanu hasn't gotten into medicine by now then it's very unlikely she'll be a doctor, she should just focus on her current job, get married and be settled"
Seeing that stung..
I wasn't just doing this for me now, I was proving him wrong while making my dad proud
After spending years trying to achieve my dream of becoming a doctor the last thing I wanted was to 'risk' that dream by taking a break so early on in my career
The reality is it's scary when you take a break in training...
You're behind your peers in progressing,
You risk not getting the rotations you originally wanted when you return to work,
You lose the friendships you made
You might even have to take a pay cut to accommodate your new reality
BUT one thing you can never get back is the time you took to create something extraordinary
Time doing life with your favourite person
Time living life to the fullest
Becoming a doctor was my biggest achievement but nothing could have prepared me for the joy in creating my baby girl
I discovered just how determined I was, how strong I was mentally, how far I could push my body, how to love that changing body, and most importantly to be grateful for the privilege in being able to carry a healthy baby to term.
I truly enjoyed baking baby girl this year❤️
#pregnant #residentdoctor #babybumps #baby #doctorslife
Suprise 🤭
Decided I didn't have enough qualifications in my resume so I added mommy 🫄🏾
1. Scrubs on
2. Scrubs off
Maternity leave here I come🎉
#maternity #pregnant #doctorslife #babybumps
A few of my favourite things...🤭
1. Celebrating the Kimberlins ❤️ I love love dressing up🤗
2. Press on nails are my go to! I'm obsessed 😍
3. Leg day everyday 💪🏾
4. My husband is sexy 😌
5. Just living the dream 🧑🏾⚕️🏥
6. My first ever hike at Pen-Y Fan....coming down was significantly harder
7. Dubai gave Luxury, class and aesthetics 😍💰
8. Holiday after every rotation is a requirement now😘
9. Hubby actually did outfit of the day everyday with me on Holiday🙌🏾
10. Got myself a new car 🚗 bruh the manual life was actually a struggle 🙆🏾
My mum, my ma, my mummy, my mother, mami, my bestie, my prayer partner, my therapist, my rock ❤️
Just an appreciation post to one of my favorite humans 🥹
Life lately... 😁🥼🥰❤️
What's my favourite part of working as a doctor so far?
Pay day!!!!💰🫰🏾💷
Ohh and it has to be the patients face when you walk in and introduce yourself as the doctor 👩🏾⚕️
Whether you're there to give good or bad news, most patients in hospital are happy to get any news about their condition🤷🏾
So I always feel joy when I say 'hi my name is Iyanu and I'm one of the doctors looking after you today😁'
My least favorite part?
The logistics, politics and social shenanigans involved before we can send a patient home...
We held a patient in for over week because there was no one to move her bed downstairs and she ended getting a hospital acquired infection 🥴
This transition to wife, doctor and living far away from my support system has taken getting used to😅 but I'm embracing this new chapter ✌🏾
'Resident Doctor' in Wales for just over 2 months 😁
I've been trying to find perfect pictures and caption before I updated this page on my life so far hence why I haven't posted anything medical related in a loooong time 😭
Just know I wake up everyday and grateful for being able to live my dreams and do the job I'm so passionate about 😍
🎉😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰
......joke!!!!! Nahhh knowing there's no more summer holidays is enough trauma 😂
From getting bleeped to do a psychiatric consult at 1am to explaining to a patient family why they passed away at 3am when I've never met the patient....
It's been interesting 😅 but I would be lying if I didn't say I'm enjoying it so far😌
Please tell me the silliest reasons you've been bleeped so far 😅
