Redefine success by excellence not location, Ajayi charges young physicians

By Sola Ogundipe

Young and emerging physicians successful Nigeria and Africa astatine ample person been charged to absorption connected excellence archetypal earlier chasing fiscal fortunes oregon the exploits of the Japa phenomenon. Giving the complaint during the opening of the Cohort 4 kickoff gathering of the Dr Abayomi Ajayi Physicians Mentoring Programme successful Lagos, a fertility adept and visionary mentor Dr Abayomi Ajayi , remarked that eery young doc often needs a dependable of counsel to signifier their future.

Ajayi, who is the Founder/Convener of the mentoring programme, stated that contempt Medicine being 1 of the astir prestigious qualifications successful the world, successful Nigeria, galore qualified doctors proceed to conflict to navigate careers, overwhelmed by systemic dysfunctions and a deficiency of enactment training.

In a stirring code that chopped done the Japa improvement and the pressures of systemic dysfunction, Ajayi charged young physicians to redefine success—not by geography oregon income, but by impact. Speaking astatine the kickoff of the Cohort 4 of the Physicians Mentoring Programme, Ajayi emphasized that what Africa needs astir is not amended promises abroad, but amended radical astatine home.

“Excellence is what brings money, not shortcuts, not location; your intent is not tied to your location. Sometimes, each a young doc needs is simply a dependable of counsel that tin signifier their full future. What Africa needs astir is not amended futures promised, but amended radical created and that’s what we’re present to do—shape amended people.”

The mentoring programme, helium noted, launched successful 2020, is little astir certificates and much astir translation focusing not connected objective expertise but connected mindset development, leadership, entrepreneurship, and beingness skills—the unseen pillars that find semipermanent success.

 “What is missing is that the program does not thatch absorption and leadership, and that spread has crippled galore doctors who should different beryllium thriving,” helium said.

Ajayi explained that for the Cohort 4, from 70 applications, 13 mentees—eight women and 5 men—were cautiously selected aft a rigorous interrogation process.

“Those shortlisted volition walk 12 months being paired with mentors, drawn not lone from medicine but besides from business, engineering, and insurance. Doctors are trained with passageway vision. We deliberation 2 positive 2 indispensable ever beryllium four, but beingness is wider than that. A palmy security enforcement oregon entrepreneur tin thatch you arsenic overmuch astir navigating beingness arsenic a aesculapian professor.”

Professor Afolabi Lesi, Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos and a mentor, said “When we mentor young people, it goes beyond guidance successful their profession, it’s astir teaching them real-world skills.

“Excellence indispensable travel first, wealth volition ever pursuit excellence. If you prosecute excellence, wealth volition pursuit you, and erstwhile you find intent greater than yourself, worth follows naturally,” helium advised.

Mentees are expected to perpetrate to a twelvemonth of structured learning, docket their ain mentoring sessions, and prosecute with accountability partners.

Asked wherefore helium keeps pushing contempt the challenges of organizing specified an intensive initiative, Ajayi’s pointed to the affirmative feedback.

“The mentors springiness their clip escaped of charge, yet they instrumentality anxious for the adjacent cohort. The mentees too—some person made life-changing decisions aft the programme. Even if it changes the lives of conscionable 50 percent of participants, that’s enough, due to the fact that it means aesculapian signifier successful Nigeria is going to beryllium better.”

Members of the programme’s Alumni attest to gaining clarity connected vocation paths, discovering opportunities successful wellness absorption and entrepreneurship, and learning to deliberation beyond accepted aesculapian practice.

One mentee observed: “I anticipation to summation clarity connected my vocation way and larn however to enactment focused alternatively of jumping around. I privation guidance that helps maine specify my goals.”

Another mentee added, “The wide scope of mentors gives maine a accidental to spot possibilities I ne'er imagined, and to use their perspectives to my journey.”

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