Medical school is no easy feat, especially when you’re studying in a foreign country. So when Azan Zahir Virji, Benjamin Andres Gallo Marin, and Ghazal Aghagoli connected online over this shared struggle, they knew they had to play a part in easing it for others. That’s how F-1 De to be.
This student-led organisation is a free mentorship initiative for international applicants of the medical degree (MD), Dmes in the US. Pre-meds can access mentorship and guidance from reliable resources with ease online. Co-founder Virji, a Tanzanian student at Harvard Medical School, shares via e-mail that F-1 Doctors has come a long way in a short time – it now has 90 mentors from over 30 countries and has helped over 200 students collectively.
Harvard student Azan Virji from Tanzania is one of the founders of F-1 Doctors, which offers free mentorship and advice for international students who want to get into medical school in the US. Source: Azan Virji
Marin, a Brown University student from Nicaragua, attributes this to the fact that the mentorship programme is simple, fast, and highly effective. A student is able to select the mentor that they wish to speak to by scrolling through the mentor profiles, reading their biographies, and filling an electronic form specific to a given mentor.
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