LIFE LESSONS CLINICAL MEDICINE TAUGHT ME: INTRODUCTION

LIFE LESSONS CLINICAL MEDICINE TAUGHT ME: INTRODUCTION

WRITTEN BY: SULEIMAN NDORO JNR (DR AUDI)

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” This is one question every child comes across when he/she is growing up. I didn’t escape that question too. That question haunted me from when I was in nursery school and even years later when I was done with secondary education.

Having been brought up in a medical family where both my parents were nurses, I had fallen in love with medicine. I loved seeing how my parents were taking care of patients in their clinic and that really star-struck me.  Ever since I was young, I knew I wanted to be a doctor. When a person would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would proudly say “A doctor.” And for those people that knew my family well, the next statement would be, “he wants to be like his parents.”

After four years of hard work in secondary school at Koelel High School, it was time for the outcome of my hard work to be known. The day was 26th February 2013 when the late Mutula Kilonzo, who was the minister of Education released our Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results. And just as I expected, I passed the exam.

 I received congratulations messages from all kinds of people. Being the first person in my family to have scored an A plain grade of 82 points, I think I deserved the congratulations. Or what do you think? Above all, my father, a retired nurse, was the one who was so proud of me, his son.

The KCSE results were one of the incidents that I wished my late mother was alive so that she could witness and celebrate the achievements of her son.

My performance in high school was a green sign to me that I would pursue the course that I always dreamt of: Medicine and Surgery. Unfortunately, this was not the case when the Joint Admissions Board (JAB) which later became Kenya University and College Central Placement System (KUCCPS) announced the courses we had been called for.

 I was called to pursue Bachelor of Science in Clinical Medicine and Community Health at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT). This was a point of confusion in my life. First, I had no idea on what Clinical Medicine was about and who a clinical officer was. Second, I had heard about JKUAT but never at any point did it cross my mind that I would join my tertiary education in JKUAT.

The other confusing thing was that I never knew where JKUAT was in the map of Kenya. However, time reached and I had to go JKUAT to pursue Clinical Medicine.

The experience I got in the five years I studied this noble profession was one that was worth it. I met good friends and got good experiences. 

Clinical Medicine gave birth to Dr Audi. This great course made me become an author and entrepreneur. It has made me compile up to 15 medical revision books for my fellow Clinical Medicine family. My first book, TEST YOUR ANATOMY MCQs WITH ANSWERS, which I published when I was in my final year of medical school made me become branded as Kenya’s youngest medical author. It is 

This book contains the life lessons I learned while I was a medical student. These are lessons during my experiences as a junior medical student up to when I started during my clinical rotations in Thika Level V Hospital, Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital, and Murang’a County Referral Hospital.  The lessons in this book are worth your time. They will help you in your day-to-day life activities and also make you successful in life. These lessons will make your life better.

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