From left: Dr. Adanna Grandison, Dr. Suleman Patel, Intern of the year, Dr. Simone Evelyn, Dr. Shai Stewart and Dr. Anesha White, pose with their awards as (back, left) Dr. Anthony Harris, Director of Medical Services and Dr. Clyde Cave, QEH Internship Co-ordinator look on.
Five, young doctors were recognised and praised for the hard work they put in during their internship year at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for the 2016-2017 year.
Speaking during the awards ceremony that took place in the QEH Boardroom yesterday morning, Dr. Clyde Cave, the QEH Internship Co-ordinator, expressed that all 36 interns this year, worked extremely hard. However, he noted that within any group, there are people who excel and he believed it was important to acknowledge the exceptional qualities of these persons. This year’s outstanding interns were Dr. Simone Evelyn, Dr. Adanna Grandsion, Dr. Suleman Patel, Dr. Shai Stewart and Dr. Anesha White.
“This year we have five, young doctors who have demonstrated exceptional qualities. Each one brings a specific characteristic that has been judged as outstanding. It can be in the fields of academia and scholarship, it can be professional or personal attributes or it can be in clinical skills, organisation, or meticulous attention to patient care and I think each of our five outstanding interns has demonstrated excellence,” he said.
Cave explained that the interns were selected based on their performance in the four departments on their rotation which were Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Paediatrics and Surgery.
Grandison announced that her true passion was pathology and revealed that she intended to specialise in forensic pathology. Stewart noted that his passion was surgery and expressed that cardiothoracic surgery was his end point. Evelyn said that her plan was to get into Internal medicine, but haematology was a speciality that she was growing to love.
Meanwhile, both Dr. Patel and White noted that their plan was to take the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) in order to expand their opportunities and specialise in areas not done in Barbados.
Cave explained that the USMLE was an American qualifying exam which persons have to pass in order to get into US Speciality residencies.
“If there are no positions in Barbados and the Caribbean, either because those programmes are full or because they have no such speciality programmes, then there is no other option than to go abroad and this means that they would have to practically spend a year doing those exams and getting acceptance into the programme,” he said.