20/02/2026
Started IMT1 (Internal Medicine Training) 👩🏽⚕️ and the ACF (Academic Clinical Fellowship) with Professor Neil Kad and collaboration with King’s College London 👩🏽🔬
The learning curve for IMT has been steep and so much fun with being more confident and enjoying practising medicine 💉 The days we actually get to do a procedure or diagnose and treat a patient are so rewarding and make me feel happy with my choices 🩺😊 It’s so crazy to see that I was an F1 just only 3 years ago! It does get better 🥹
The ACF days are a whole different world of science, being back at the bench at the lab and has been reminding me so much of the amazing days I learnt from Ceren and Professor Postula. I always mention my alma mater mentors and am ever so grateful for all their efforts into training me. That is what has gotten me here today. It’s a challenging space with learning new skills in chemistry and molecular biology than those in pharmacogenomics that I was used to (permeabilisation of muscle tissue, preparing buffers, stocks, homogenization, labeling, imaging and operating with OFA) 🔬 I’m learning from one of the best in the field and couldn’t be more grateful to the lab team who have wholeheartedly helped me through this transition and still are.
It’s challenging with very long days and a lot more on the plate from MRCP 📚 to long days at the lab 🥼 (so excited to finally wear the white coat again!) and the small differences in the European style and English style of laboratory systems and etiquette always surprises me.
Both the different worlds are so wonderful when an academic clinician combines them because we understand the translational research and connection the both the fields hold. I’m very grateful to be in to incredible opportunity and a proud woman in science 🧬
Looking forward to working more with myofibrils and dining out more about muscle contraction in cardiology 🫀
