Universidad Central de Venezuela - UCV
speciality: Medicine And Surgery

I’m currently a student at the Medicine program at Universidad Central de Venezuela and I can say that being a part of this college has changed my life. I have not only learned from excellent professors and professionals, I also have made lifelong friends and learnt a lot of what it means to be a Doctor. I have learnt the importance of persistence, resilience and work ethic and how impactful a Doctor is to society. Not only that, I have a new understanding of the importance of all medical professionals, including nurses, nutritionists and physical therapists. Not everything is rose colored though, I had to wait four years to start my program because of multiple delays and internal issues. That waiting time really made me think and sometimes I wanted to give up, but I realized that being a doctor was my calling, my mission in life and my time in college showed me what a great decision I made. All of the things I have learnt and all of the experiences I’ve had so far are worth it and I wouldn’t change them for anything.

The UCV. My UCV. Go, it’s a good university! The least I can express about it is my infinite gratitude. The UCV forges you as a being and ethical and moral professional, well prepared, updated and also as a good citizen. Its headquarters, the campus of the University City of Caracas was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000, is an open-air museum of outstanding works of art of the 20th century. The University Hospital of Caracas was the 1st in America Latina for many years. My person, medical student of the Luis Razetti School, of which medical graduates have been graduated, reason for pride and recognition, based on my personal experience I can record the excellent teachers who day after day demand us the maximum and impart your knowledge in order that we provide a quality health service and continue researching to generate knowledge to society. The last two decades the university has been persecuted, destroyed and unhappy by a dictatorship of the vilest that the modern world has known and the students, professors and administrative and labor personnel have had to resist it to maintain the functioning of the institution . Is it easy? Not at all, and in addition to the political, economic and social crisis that is currently happening in Venezuela, the pursuit of academic activities is not simple, and even more so the activities of research and extension. However, the will of the guilds that work there and their students, make the university a flash to the latter at the end of the darkest night, the living flame of hope that will raise the country, to Venezuela, after this period gloomy of obscurantism that plagues the ideals and freedoms of thought. I know that perhaps for some this is not a correct opinion of the university. But the UCV is due to the country, and being a good UCVista and Venezuelan means reporting what hurt our Alma Mater. It is our mission. We must continue to overcome the shadow!