An African-American With A Desire To Inspire.
And just like that, both my chief year and my time in North Carolina have come to an end. 🥲 My time as a chief resident officially ended a little over a week ago, and I no longer have any obligations to fulfill in that role. The new chiefs have successfully taken over our jobs […]
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This is it y’all. My chief year is officially coming to an end. Cleaning out my desk last week to make space for the new chief residents of the program made this fact feel all the more real. They officially took over chief duties this past Tuesday, leaving my co-chiefs and I in this ambiguous […]
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One thing about working in the inpatient setting is that it is real easy to find yourself out of the loop when it comes to current events happening in both the nation and the world, whether that be the daily news or pop culture. As a matter of fact, it’s so easy that it’s lowkey […]
Read MoreI’m two weeks into my intern year and I must say, I could not have asked for a smoother transition into this new era of my life. I’m sure that I would be in the running of the “Best Start To Intern Year” Award, if such an award existed. I say that because while many […]
Read MoreOn Monday June 24th, my residency training will officially begin. Lemme say it again for the people in the back. (Mostly for myself though 😅) I AM OFFICIALLY STARTING MY RESIDENCY TRAINING THIS MONDAY!!! I’m really excited to finally start being a doctor and to practice honing my medical skills! My two-week orientation period was absolutely […]
Read MoreHey there! Good to see you again, I missed ya! 😄 So I’m sure that by now, you’ve already noticed that there have been a “few” changes to the layout of the blog. Okay, a little more than a few; the blog looks completely different and I love it! 😊 It’s been a long time coming […]
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CHRISTEL WEKON-KEMENI, M.D. DR. CHRISTEL WEKON-KEMENI. Man, it feels SOOO good to be able to FINALLY say that!!! All the work that I’ve put in over the years coupled with the countless sacrifices I’ve made to achieve this goal have all culminated into me being able to call myself a medical doctor!! Of course, this […]
Read MoreThat moment when you realize that you’re ONLY THREE WEEKS AWAY from graduation!!! I’m really going to have an M.D. in three weeks y’all. Like, I’m really about to be a Black Man, M.D. forreal forreal. I can’t even begin to express the level of emotion that I will surely feel during Graduation weekend and […]
Read MoreI’m just going to go ahead and warn you now, this post might end up being one of my long ones. I already know that I’ll have plenty of opportunities to get long-winded as I type about my experiences at the SNMA’s Annual Medical Education Conference, where I spent most of this past week at. […]
Read MoreUmm, okay……well……not much has changed in my life since my last post. Your boy is still here making the most of the free time that has been afforded to him during this flex block. 😜 I flew back from Boston last Tuesday and have been hanging around both Chapel Hill and Winston since then. I’ve […]
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