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One week more!!! Yes!! My joy knows no bounds that in approximately a week, I will be taking my last exam in my first year of medical school. This young lady is so grateful for this entire year. I am grateful for all the lessons I have learnt personally and academically that have made me a little bit wiser than I was when I first came in. so thankful. So, a few lessons we can pass on to the incoming first years? Get to know your classmates. Hang out with each other and learn about everyone’s uniqueness. Also, as you get to know each other, learn not to hold a grudge for too long. Someone steps on your toe? It happens, 😊 just let them know with gentleness and honor and forgive. On the other hand, if someone tells you that you stepped on their toe, humbly apologize and move on. This seems like common sense, but you will see that once a while you’ll need a reminder. Invest in your Hebrew and go on adventures in the hospital and in all of Israel. Shadow doctors, get to know patients and ...

Being in medical school can be challenging sometimes; however, studying in a foreign country and knowing no one around you can be more challenging. I love community; maybe because I have always grown up surrounded with a strong and vibrant one since I was little. “How will MSIH be like?” was a question I always asked myself before coming here. But being here for 11 months now, I am enjoying the community I found here. Some aspects of it came looking for me, I didn’t have to find them and for others I needed to go searching … My classmates, my amazing, talented and serious classmates were my first community. A bunch of 26 Americans, Canadians, a Korean, a Chinese, an Australian, a British, an Israeli and a Ghanaian chose to come to a medical school in a Negev desert somewhere in the Middle East. And for most of us, being novices at this thing called a ‘coupled medical student and foreigner’, we bonded and supported each other quite well. I was impressed at how my class was so supportiv ...