Creating a professional development plan, when done well, is like creating a custom recipe for your favourite dish. It contains a list of all the ingredients, utensils, and instructions needed to make this dish. Like a recipe, a professional development plan is your step by step plan of how to use your ingredients (your skills… Continue reading Writing A Professional Development Plan
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Professional Development Plan – Follow Through
So you’ve written your professional development plan, kudos to you! That’s the easy part though, following through with this plan is the tricky part. Just like building a house, so much work is done after the architect designs the house. The builders come next and follow the plan provided by the architect. In this case,… Continue reading Professional Development Plan – Follow Through
It’s More Than Just Work
When I was about to graduate from university, I considered going straight into a Masters program, not because I love school, and I really love school, but because I was scared that my life was about to get sucked into a vicious cycle of working endlessly and savouring my 2-minute weekends. At this point in… Continue reading It’s More Than Just Work
Just Try
On International Women’s Day 2023, I had the opportunity to give a keynote speech to a group of high school students participating in the annual Technovation Girls program. When I first received this invitation to talk about my experience as a woman in STEM, I thought really hard about what I wanted to say to… Continue reading Just Try
The Best Imposter Ever
You could read this article, or watch the talk I gave on this. In One Way Or The Other, We Are All Imposters” – Ebun. Imposter syndrome – we hear so much about it and even encounter it in our personal and professional lives. But what exactly is it?Imposter syndrome by definition is an overwhelming… Continue reading The Best Imposter Ever
Moving Forward By Going Back
“Forward ever, backward never” is a saying that I heard so frequently growing up in Nigeria. To many, it was unfathomable and undesirable to ever have to go back instead of always progressing in the forward direction. But the more I experience life, the more I realize that sometimes progress involves going back so that… Continue reading Moving Forward By Going Back
I’m Going To Be A Doctor
A dream is just a dream until you decide to wake up and make it happen. All my life I have always been certain about the things I want, and one thing I was very certain about as a kid was that I was going to be a doctor. My certainty in a career in… Continue reading I’m Going To Be A Doctor
On Delayed Gratification
It still feels surreal to me that I swapped my days of writing code for long days of learning anatomy and working with cadavers. Even though I still spend an insane amount of time in front of computer screens (mostly studying), my biggest realization has been that medicine is just one big game of delayed… Continue reading On Delayed Gratification