Bio
Details: 20, from Nottingham, UK
Imperial Course: Phase 1b (third year) – MBBS (Medicine)
Clubs and Societies: RAG (ICSM), Basketball, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Students for Global Health
Tags: Home, UG, MED, MBBS
Motivations and Frustrations
Motivations
Darren really likes helping people and his time volunteering at a nursing home helped him to understand this. He wants to be a doctor that can make a difference within communities and make them better places. His mum talks fondly about her time at Imperial where she studied Earth Sciences, and he wants to take every opportunity he can. He’s involved in lots of extra-curricular activities and while he does work hard, he’s tries to make time to enjoy himself.
Frustrations
Noone in Darren’s family have studied medicine, and he feels pressure to succeed and be a good role model to his siblings. He feels slightly uncomfortable on his clinical placements as he’s never really had any exposure to this environment. He also struggles to make sense of the current NHS position which he hears a lot about while on placements. He enjoys working with patients but is worried that the NHS environment isn’t going to be a nice place to work in. He knows he takes on a lot of extra-curricular activities and he enjoys being busy however as he’s progressing through his MBBS he does sometimes struggle to balance everything.
Volunteering
Darren wants to make the most of opportunities to demonstrate skills as part of his professional development for becoming a doctor. He volunteers in a nursing home, visit his work experience profile to see how he got this volunteering role and how it relates to his medicine programme.