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Everything You Need to Know About Studying Medicine and Surgery
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Jun 24, 2025
Thinking about studying Medicine and Surgery in Nigeria? This video is your ultimate guide! We break down everything you need to know about the course, from admission requirements to what to expect during your studies. Plus, we sit down with a current medical student who shares their unfiltered experience—the highs, the lows, and the realities of life as a medical student in Nigeria. Get ready for insights you won't find anywhere else! * Link: - Studying Physiotherapy: https://youtu.be/csm4X9LgM3o - Studying Pharmacy in Nigeria: https://youtu.be/h_I4dT54cR0 - Studying Medical Radiography: https://youtu.be/Xdncx7zKkMQ - Studying Nursing Science in Nigeria: https://youtu.be/zfaD1VhoahE - Medical Laboratory Science: https://youtu.be/yl_LsoF56EM - Studying Nutrition and Dietetics: https://youtu.be/G7ti_zSefOY Share this video Subscribe to our Channel
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all right Good afternoon Good afternoon
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Uh what was the name department and
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level okay I
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am a 500 level medical student in
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University of Nigerian Suka Wow
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University of Nigeria 500 level student
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So let me ask first why did you decide
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to study medicine and surgery well I've
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always had the passion since I was quite
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young I know it's a cliche now I want to
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what do you want to be i want to be a
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doctor I want to be
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But that is a cliche doesn't mean it's
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is incorrect I've always had the passion
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when I was quite young My dad is a
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doctor So it all felt natural Okay Okay
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So uh what what did you get as your jam
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score when you applied for me surgery
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actually I'm a change of course um
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student So my jam score was around 280
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Okay Okay So that was after I was in med
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lab then I switched over to medicine and
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surgery So that already tells us that
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it's even possible probably you are in
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anatomy you're in microbiology can still
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switch to medicine and surgery at the
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end of the day Yes it's very possible I
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mean it's very common now people do it
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mostly Uh the next question is how many
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years is medicine and surgery in
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university uh that is a funny question
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to ask now because with all the strikes
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and all the one thing or the other you
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might end up spending more than but the
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idea here is actually six years It's a
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six year course Okay So can you give us
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like a kind of breakdown what do you
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actually do from your first year i think
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there's something about second MBS third
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MBS Yeah Yeah In first year you are in
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Usuka for us that are here in University
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of Nigerians The first year you spend it
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in usa doing basically higher levels of
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chemistry biology and just getting used
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to those kind of courses Then after
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first year you are now crossing over to
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Enugu here Enugu campus where you now
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start getting introduced to courses like
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anatomy biochemistry physiology Then
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that is when they now talk the main
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courses you are preparing for in your
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second MB is your anatomy biochemistry
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and physiology and is in
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second year that is in the second year
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that is when you prepare for that and
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you take your second MBBS exam in your
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third year in medical school Okay Okay
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So how was that second MBBS how was the
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preparation for you well I had my own
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stories is it's difficult but it's easy
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to say okay if what I did actually
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sometimes I wake up in the morning 8:00
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I'm in the library from that 8 no
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normally I will bath and do all those
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things but 8:00 a.m I'm already in the
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library then from that 8:00 a.m till
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2:00 we go and have lunch After the
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lunch you get back to the library after
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that you read till 5 This is what it
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happened over a period of 3 months 3
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months back to back to back because you
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know I'm a change of course student and
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I had to cover to cover that kind of
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thing So I needed to cover backlo of
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backlog of um materials material So I
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really read then also in the night
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because any day you miss and you didn't
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read you pay for it So that is how it is
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in this university Okay So the fear of
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failure and everything will ginger you
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after all the things you have suffered
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all the jams cause all the change of
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course because it's not just not anybody
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can just go and change of change course
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or do anything like you have to pay some
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money for it So after everything you now
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say the person fail no it's not good You
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think of all these things and that is
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what will give you the ginger to
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continue motivation Yeah Okay So usually
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when we talk about medicine and surgery
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is usually like those that are
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intelligent from secondary school you
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understand like the best students they
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usually go for medicine and surgery they
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go for law they go for engineering So my
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question now is let's say for an average
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student that did not get the opportunity
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of going to the best secondary schools
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you know doesn't really have the the
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best foundation but then a person
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eventually gets into the college of
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medicine Is it possible for that person
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to excel academically here at the
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college of medicine well it depends on
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you in particular There is no
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template on who will succeed or not Is
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if you decide to succeed that is when
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you actually succeed Okay success is a
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personal decision to me Anybody can do
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medicine except maybe you have a mental
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disorder or something like that Okay
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anybody can do it It just depends on the
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person Okay so uh now that you're in 500
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level can you describe like what your
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typical day looks like as a medical
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student well I'm currently doing I mean
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concluding my first block pediatric
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posting and it has been quite draining
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Every day we wake up early by 8:00 you
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inside the bus The bus we carry from old
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to this um uh itala So after that we
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meet with the consultants On Tuesdays we
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normally have our clinics So it will be
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a busy day So we keep seeing patients
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like that Then after that on Wednesdays
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is our world round We go to the world We
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see patients We talk with consultants
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Consultant also palpate student You see
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um I can't remember his name now but he
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really make sure that like he shows us
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everything that happens in this hospital
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If you watch his video I can't remember
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his name now but that is basically what
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we do On Wednesdays we have our world
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round On Thursdays like this we also
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have ward round registrance ward round
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then on Friday is consultant ward round
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but it has been hell okay Okay enjoying
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Wow that is that is nice that is nice So
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in second year you in third year you sit
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for your second MBBS right yes Yes Yes
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So after that what do you now do what
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exam do you write next like do you
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attend lectures or you go for clinical
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postings well how we do it might change
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in the future After the second MB you
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start your clinical postings That is
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your M1 S1 posting After the M1 S1
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posting you now do Okay No you actually
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do There's a way they do it Sometimes
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they do the posting before the block
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lectures Then sometimes they do the
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block lectures before the posting So
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it's so it just depends on probably the
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school every universities have their but
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you surely do your block lectures and
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your postings So what level do you sit
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for your third MBBS exam that is in your
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400 level The 400 level The 40 Is there
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any other MBBS exam you still sit for
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again of course you sit for your fourth
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MBBS and then the final one that is in
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your fifth year The fifth year Then you
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now sit for the final one one which is
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on the final year 60 Okay Okay So let me
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ask a medical student is it based on
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your experience and your interactions
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with your classmate is it possible to
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like let's say combine a side also let
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me maybe do something by the side you
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know to make money for yourself while
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you are still in school or the course is
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so demanding that you not have any time
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for let's say extracurricular activities
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or anything like that Well this question
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is actually a good question because me
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I'm in between that deciding exactly I'm
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kind of trying to decide whether it's
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even possible but actually most of my
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classmates they actually combine
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different things Okay then you see them
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coming to posting but then they are
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doing one I know one of my classmates
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he's a very huge forex trader he does
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that I know one that is into video
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videography I know one that is into
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selling um all these scrubs and
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everything so it just depends on the
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person per se it will not I mean not
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everybody here will now end up being
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doctors in the future so it's just your
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passion what's and Nigeria now you must
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be doing something to actually
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supplements the whole economy All right
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Thank you very Thank you very much Thank
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you very much So
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uh what advice would you have or say to
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a student that is aspiring to study
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medicine and surgery at any university
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in Nigeria
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well my advice to my fellow students
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because all of us are students in this
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um department is just keep your mind
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open and whatever you are doing try to
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involve God also Okay And
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also don't be restrictive with your
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learning Don't just take whatever they
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give you in the whatever you learn from
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no matter how big the person is Try to
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critique it with your own mind Try to
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like maybe you learned something new
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today Go back and check whatever that
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thing is Try to know whether Yes Do
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further research about it because the
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period and process of doing that
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research You now find uh yourself
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understanding the topic more Yes Yes And
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don't just use only materials to prepare
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for exams Okay and you also try to read
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vastly and widely is going to help in
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your understanding and also in practice
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in general Okay Okay Okay Thank you very
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much Thank you very much So uh lastly
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let me ask has there been any
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challenging experience like B academics
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so far you want to share with us well
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I've not had
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any well I call it repeat or receipts
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kind of exam but I know most of my
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friends the joy is not always complete
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one of them or two of them will have
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issues but then it's normal in this
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department I've not had doesn't mean I
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will not have I'm not praying to have
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but it doesn't that is not the end of
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the whole thing at least you learn from
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it it's actually good to some extent if
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you have receipt in an exam because it
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tends to give you more understanding of
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that particular topic that you failed or
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course that you failed So when somebody
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has a repeat or a receipt in any cause
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at all it should not
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cause the person cause the person to
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feel so depressed or anything Just learn
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from your failures and move on Pick
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yourself up Yes All right Thank you very
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much It has been nice talking to you and
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we wish you success in your academics
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and future endeavors Uh thank you very
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much
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