I’ve been studying medicine for almost 4 years now here and what i like the most are the teachers. They are really professional and passionate about teaching us how to connect with our patients and be humble and the same time doing our best for giving people a solution to their sickness. I know it’s not east but I dont regret to decided to study in this university, despite of everything I’m happy with my decision.

I started at University this year. I was very excited to the new experience of my life, but when I face what really it the university life, I’m not happy about it. So many people told to make studies in this university will be hard but it’s harder than people says. The another day I have to take my class in a classroom where made 41° at least, very warm, without ventilation, without electricity, I could even listened to the teacher because there were A LOT of people, more people than chairs, and the true is nobody care about the conditions of the classes. Obviously you can’t be focus 100%. I neither can bring my phone with me at university because it’s not secure, you can be a victim of thieves if you aren’t alert. Nowadays it’s hard to me to adapt to this environment, I hope things get better.

University has been one of the best experiences I have ever had. Despite the ups and downs, I have not only had an academic education, I have also learned how to live, to have responsibility and commitment. It is not easy to live alone, to be in a part far from your home without help from anyone, and to have to be the head of all your decisions, and things like these are what shape you as a person. University life is an important stage that trains you to be professional and obtain maturity. My home of study gives me many lessons and I will always be grateful.

I just finish my career after 8 years of studying. I’m really happy for being a doctor now, but only few people know how was my process to achieve this goal. Medicine is a beautiful career, but when others tell you it needs a lot of sacrifices you imagine the scene but it never near what really is. I had so many doubts while I was studying, will I be good for this? Could I achieve it? If I left the career and moving on to another country? When we are students we have so many worries about our performance at university and as professionals. It’s a hard feeling when you give your 100% and don’t approve or getting the results you expected. If you add living in a country like Venezuela that you need to worry about a lot of things maybe foreign people doesn’t have. You need to solve patient problems like helping them with materials or medicine because they are in the hospital but there are days where they don’t receive treatment because hospital doesn’t have. You have to face teachers who expected you know in one week what they learned in years. You have to go to the classroom with a weather in 40°, with no ventilation, dark, because the structure is poor but you can’t lost you class. So many obstacles that you can find and it drives you to think “does it really worth it?”. Being a university student in Venezuela is far to be easy due to all the economic situation and crisis. But I’m grateful to be part of the UDO, because it is my studies house, and where I spent my live the last 8 years, learning to help people to feel better, even with adversities we make the work with love.