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奥科查Dumebi
预计毕业年份： May 2024
威尼斯人娱乐城学位课程： B.A./M.D.
家乡: 瓦克肖，北卡罗莱纳
作为一名医生和一名执业护士的女儿，追求医疗事业是杜梅比·奥科查的必经之路。
"I always saw my dad coming back from work and I was always interested in the cases he was seeing, even though I didn’t know what he was talking about. My mom is a nurse practitioner, so I come from a strong health sciences background,” she said.
她申请威尼斯人娱乐城是因为它的6年加速学士/医学博士学位 这个项目可以让她更快地成为一名医生，还能省钱。 When she found herself stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Okocha did what many people her age do when boredom strikes: she made a TikTok video. 她注意到，人们对像她这样的加速医疗项目的认识并不多，所以她把它贴了出来。
“I was just trying to show there were other, quicker, more cost-affordable options without the MCAT,” she said.
令她惊讶的是，这张照片获得了5万多个赞。
“I was surprised. I just didn’t think anything of it at the time. When I started, I probably had 30 followers,” she said. “I was like, ‘Who are all these people?’ That’s when I was like, okay, if I post consistently, I think I can get a following.”
很快，她的收件箱就被那些从未听说过速成课程的学生直接发来的邮件淹没了。 就在那时，奥科查看到了一个改变医学面貌的机会。 她决定扩大自己的平台，更广泛地谈论医疗领域，并鼓励其他黑人、第一代美国人、第一代大学生或少数族裔追求医疗事业，无论他们选择的是六年的轨道还是其他道路。
“My goal overall is to be a face for what is possible and to use my privilege to help those who are not as privileged,” said Okocha. “Once they see a Nigerian-American girl in medical school doing her thing, I think it helps them say, ‘Okay, she’s doing it. She’s not perfect but she’s doing it, which means I can do it. 我只需要找到成功之路。’”
Okocha has since expanded her reach, with her highest-viewed video now reaching one million views. 起初，她对她的同学和教授看到她的视频感到紧张，但她说，反馈基本上是积极的。
“I was getting too self-conscious thinking that if people are watching, I had to be perfect. But once I heard from administration that they liked my TikToks, I knew I was doing a good job,” she said.
除了是一名医学影响者，Okocha还是威尼斯人娱乐城医学院的大使、第二区秘书和全国学生医学协会的地方分会秘书、妇产科兴趣小组的公关代表和学术、卫生和研究学生培训（STAHR）的成员。 奥科查说，在学习和课外活动之间，她需要在社交媒体上保持平衡，但她试图保持正确的态度。
“I have to remember this is not my job, this is a hobby. When I place it like that, it’s not an obligation, it’s just for fun,” she said. “I think I laid the expectation that I’m not going to post every day and that’s okay. Around finals, I don’t really post. If I’m changing classes, I tend not to post in the beginning just so I can get my footing. I always put being a student first.”
通过这一切，Okocha说她学会了如何管理多个任务，找到创造性的解决方案，并欣赏所有的医学专业。 她希望通过分享自己的经历，能激励其他人。
“You can have a life, you can go to med school and even if you have disadvantages stacked against you, there are ways around it, you just have to know those ways.”
Okocha说，她计划在成为医生后继续扩大她在社交媒体上的存在。
“I feel like social media is the new way of getting information out to your patients and educating people,” she said. “My dream is to have a podcast. After I take my boards, I want to start working on that.”