Suud Nahdi — An international student finds home
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His parents were as shocked as they were pleased when an 8-year-old Suud Nahdi proclaimed that he was going to be a doctor, and the little boy from Tanzania grew to become the first in his family to attain tertiary education. It was while he was studying in Canada that he first became interested in faraway Australia, and it was “on a whim” that he looked up Sydney University medical school and put in an application.
Several years down the track he says it was the greatest decision of his life, that his training has been far better than he expected, and that he has found somewhere he feels he belongs. Suud can’t recommend an extended rural placement highly enough, because of the broad and exciting exposure he is receiving, the warmth of the people he works with and treats, and the Dubbo lifestyle he has grown to love. He says the experience is just what an “ideal” medical school training should be.