Falling From Medicine
Falling From Medicine
AyomideThePoet
Where current and former West African college students discuss the multifaceted pressures we face to pursue medicine, engineering and law. Join Ayomide as she navigates leaving the premed path two months before her graduation. If you would like to be featured on this podcast or discuss your own thoughts, connect with Ayomide on all social media platforms @AyomideThePoet.
With Separation Comes Elevation
Are African parents toxic? On this episode of Falling From Medicine, Ayomide is joined by Oluwakemi Dauda (@kemiii.d on instagram) to discuss toxic/narrow definitions of success and how to recreate yourself. This episode is for you if: You need help discovering what you're passionate about or what you want to do with your life You've just made a big career/major change and don't know what to do next You need advice on how to become the person you know you're meant to be Support and donate to Oluwakemi's education non-profit, Bringing Hope Back Home, at BringingHopeBackHome.org. 
Apr 6, 2021
28 min
African Child, Get That Piercing
Why is it that so many West African college students start off as premed? On this episode of Falling from Medicine, Ayomide is joined by Tito (@stillt1to on twitter) to discuss possible reasons and how to choose your own path in spite of them. This episode is for you if: You don't know how to tell your African parents that you don't want to be a doctor You need advice on how to trust yourself and the decisions you make You've been debating getting a piercing but are afraid of being disowned
Apr 5, 2021
11 min