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ONCAMPUS Medicine student, Haya

My name is Haya and I’m studying the medicine undergraduate foundation programme at ONCAMPUS UK North.  
 
So we take courses that are very much invested in the medical course later on, so we take biochemistry and maths and especially statistics, which is very useful when you’re doing research for example.  
 
I’ve met a lot of friends, from both my home country and abroad and they’re really nice. I think all of us have the same aim, which is we want to study medicine and so that is something which helps us bind and bond together. I have actually met a lot of current students and I actually joined a play, which was from UCLan, so I was a member of a play. It was really interesting and very nice and this way I had to be able to meet up with the students from here and actually interact with them. So, we don’t feel like there’s a barrier between us and them and also some of my closest friends and from the university itself, so it’s really interesting.  
 
Personally for me, I find Preston the good combination of urban and suburban, in the way that you can always study and concentrate in the library but if you want to have fun you can go to the city centre. If you’re really bored you can always hop on a train to Manchester or Liverpool. So it’s really interesting that it offers this combination, where you’re not very busy all the time but at the same time, you’re not bored. So, I think it’s ideal for me, especially for medicine.  
 
I actually hope to go more into the academic side of medicine and maybe become a professor, teach and work with NGOs like the World Health Organisation, or MSF for example. So, trying to help those people who really need the help most, and maybe go into the field of infectious diseases for example, find a cure for AIDS, who knows. I was always interested in trying to cure my own diseases. I was a very sick child when I was younger, always tonsilitis, bronchitis and so I was eager to find out more and I think the more you research and the more you read, the more you’re capable to find out how to try to help those that are in need and I think, studying in the UK will help me because the benefit, or the beautiful thing about UCLan is that you meet patients early on. So, it’s actually possible to help them and you can see that you’re actually helping people from early on so it motivates my potential, so I like that.