{"id":1307,"date":"2021-11-15T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2021-11-15T10:55:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T10:55:23","slug":"kwaku-duah-asante-undergraduate-faculty-of-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/2021\/11\/15\/kwaku-duah-asante-undergraduate-faculty-of-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwaku Duah-Asante, Undergraduate, Faculty of Medicine\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI am particularly passionate about ensuring that access to institutions like Imperial,\u00a0is attainable to students from a greater array of backgrounds”<\/h3>\n

I\u2019m a\u00a0fifth-year\u00a0medical student here at Imperial. Born and raised in South-East London, I am of Ghanaian heritage.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I chose medicine as a career due to the ability to impact a patient\u2019s life and the positive contributions doctors make to society.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My journey so far in medical school has been enriching. I\u2019ve met a lot of amazing people, developed massively as a person and have also been fortunate enough to carry out amazing work such as a research project in Uganda. Our research looked at the effect on malaria of discontinuing the use of the antibiotic, co-trimoxazole in people with HIV in the country’s biggest hospital, Mulago Hospital.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve also been able to carry out work on matters dear to me such as being a\u00a0<\/span>StreetDoctors<\/span><\/a>\u00a0volunteer. Street Doctors is a charity that teaches lifesaving first aid to young people at risk of violence. Specifically, it provides training on what to do when someone has been stabbed and when someone is unconscious. I was fortunate enough to have my story as a\u00a0StreetDoctors\u00a0volunteer told in a campaign with the National Lottery and Lad Bible, which amassed over\u00a0one\u00a0million views online.\u202f\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Looking\u00a0to the future I am excited to continue my volunteering roles working with youth from similar backgrounds to me.\u00a0I am particularly passionate about ensuring that access to institutions like\u00a0Imperial,\u00a0is attainable to students from a greater array of backgrounds regardless of their race, upbringing and social class.\u00a0In the future I hope to become a surgeon.\u202f\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI am particularly passionate about ensuring that access to institutions like Imperial,\u00a0is attainable to students from a greater array of backgrounds” I\u2019m a\u00a0fifth-year\u00a0medical student here at Imperial. Born and raised in South-East London, I am of Ghanaian heritage.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I chose medicine as a career due to the ability to impact a patient\u2019s life and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}