Doc Ahmad Hajiri

Assalamu Alaykum! (Peace be upon you all!)   [NOTE: This is a really, really old post! For those applying to UPCM for school years 2021 and beyond, it is best to visit the UPCM website for updates. Download and read the latest primer here . The details in this blogspot may not be applicable anymore. Read with discretion.    You can send me a message on my FB Page here :    Thanks!]  This post was originally published in January 2015, almost two years after I entered the great hallways of Calderon in UPCM. Now, it's January 2018: roughly 6 months since graduation, and here I am, a full-pledged UPCM Alumnus and now a licensed physician! Wow! Then I realized in this blog that this post reaches more hits that the other posts I have published , and I know I badly needed to update this...And so I did. I tried... And so... To those aspiring future martyrs amazing medical students who will sacrifice their social lives really enjoy learning the wonder...

Alhamdulillah! (All praise be to Allah!) After the loooong wait, the list of admitted applicants who passed the rigorous application process in UPCM is now up! We now have the initial list of LU3 students (1st year Medicine Proper) for the school year 2015-2016.  MashaAllah! I can still remember that day when I received the same news, it was still unbelievable for me! Allahu akbar! (Allah is great!) And now I can't believe I am already about to end my third year in UP College of Medicine as an ICC and a proud member of the awesome Class 2017!  It was a life-changing news for me. And I am sure this will surely be another life-changing news for the 160 applicants as well ^_^  To check the list of successful admitted applicants, just click this link   Snapshot of the official announcement of the UP College of Medicine website This year, Alhamdulillah we have 3 Muslims (that I know of) ^_^ I already met two of them. And I am not sure if there are sti...

It's Finally up Alhamdulillah! Here are the blessed souls who will now have the chance to get into the next batch of "Doktor para sa Bayan" (UPCM Class 2020 for AY 2015-16): FEMALE ACMA, KATHLEEN ANN LUENGAS ADOLFO, JOYCE ANN LLARINAS ALFABETO, MARY FRANCINE BAÑAS ALFONSO, PIA GABRIELLE ISIDRO ALGODON, SHELA MARIE LLENARESAS AMILHASAN, FATIMAH SADAIN ANGELES, GRACE ELYSSE DELOS REYES ARANCON, ANNE KAY COLLEEN VESTAL ARANDIA, LOUISE KAYE GACUTNO ARMADA, GLADYS LARISSA VENDICIO BABISTA, FRANCINE LOREEN A. B. MAGHUYOP BANAAG, DANAH ARANDA BASILIO, PATRICIA ANNE SAMSON BAUTISTA, HOPE LANIKA MANALO BENITEZ, DANA LEE MACASAET BERMUDEZ, REGINA MAREE JAPITANA BUNGA, ARIANNE MAE PALER BUNGABONG, SHARMAINE SOLIVIO CAISIDO, CHARMAINE RAY RAMOS CAMPOSANO, JESSA MAE TEJEDOR CARAMPEL, AJINA CABANGON CARGANDO, DEBEI CAPADA CHAMMAG, CLARISSE PIZARRO CHAVEZ, VERONICA PAGE DEL CASTILLO CHEONG, AMANDA MARIE ACUÑA CHITO, HANNAH TULIPAT CHUMACERA, KRISTINE BARIT CINCO, TANYA KATHERINE RA...

Assalamu Alaykum! This would serve as my introductory post for the next series of post I plan to work on. (Don’t ask me how I can find time to work with these given the fact that I am a medstudent. It’s a top secret :D ) So what is this all about? Well, basically it’s what this blog is supposed to be. I know, I know, this blog has a wide variety of topics from personal stories to history of Sulu, to politics and even about a cat that gave birth (no, I did not publish that one). And the author is a medstudent! And there’s so few topics about medschool! So I decided to catch up and fill in the gaps or holes or whatever was missing here: My life in medschool. (Note: Some aspiring applicants to medschool also kept bugging me to share life in medschool, so I am giving him/her this treat.) Again, I am not an expert in writing. Not even in blogging: I do have lots of blogs with full of grammar and typo errors. I have long accepted those facts and so sorry to disappoin...

By Ahmad ibn Hajiri , UP College of Medicine Class 2017 Published in www.anakiluh.blogspot.com Bismillah It was February of 2012 when I came to Manila for the UPCM Applicants interview. I came all the way from Sulu just to attend the 2 sets of interviews in a day, and I can still remember then how anxious and nervous I was not knowing what to do... For me, the interviews in fact are among the hardest parts of the application to any medschool (well, aside from the NMAT). It’s the last bridge that will bring you to the doorsteps of your dream school or not. Alhamdulillah, upon receiving the white envelope containing my final acceptance as an official student of UPCM, it was indeed a one exhilarating kind of happiness! I still can’t believe that I passed and now here I am trying as much to learn and be a better doctor each day, in sha Allah. Two years since then, some friends who are eyeing for the 140 slots in the college for the next roll of medstudents are asking me for...

Bismillah. I have been avoiding posting here in my blog for some reasons... I still cant organize the messy compartment in my head sooo I have intentionally delayed publishing many posts since last year... But don't be sad guys, I am going to share you a fun and happy post here :) HOME-MADE SCRUB SUITS This is my new pair of scrub suits. Cool aren't they? Where did I bought them you asked? In a store full of medical equipment? nope. This my friends, were made by my mother when I last went home to Sulu... That;s my beloved Inah. And that's her friend, the sewing Machine (which is by the way older than me) You see, my mother loves sewing. It's her new hobby (aside from being a workaholic, all-day-all-night mother slash librarian slash high school teacher slash cook slash house manager slash.. oh you already got my point so...) when I asked her if she can make some pair of scrub suits for me... The next day she went to the "Juwal-mura" (local ...

Bismillah the Island of Siasi with Bud Siasi on the background Last summer I spent more than a week in Siasi, a smaller island in Sulu. I went there not to spend a wonderful vacation with my family, but to do something bigger, something greater: to conduct my first one-week community immersion! As one of the Regionalization Program (RP) students in the college, we were required to return to our community every summer and conduct our own community immersions before the next school year begins. This is one of the requirements that we have to accomplish for us to be allowed to enroll for the next Learning Unit (or year level). And so, being one of the only two students (out of 160) representing ARMM in our batch, I chose Siasi, Sulu to be my immersion site for the next five years of my stay in Medschool (in shaa Allah), and perhaps until I become a licensed physician someday (Ameen). Now, what did I do in my one-week stay in Siasi? I might not be able to tell all the th...

Ha laum sin Classroom namu: BSLR-East Bismillah Waypa aku nakatagna’ magstory about sin kabuhi’ ku bihaun (buhi’ pa isab kita, hehe). Dih ku na maraih ini katagnaan bang daing hain nagtagna’ in class namuh, sa unu bang unu na in yari bihaun, sulayan ta hisuysuy. Kalu awn makawa’ ta misan maniyu’-tiyu’ pangadjian (naks). Kahapun, Alhamdulillah ampa naubus in 2nd exam namu’ ha OS205 (Thorax), amuna in Cardiac Physiology. Unu ta' ini? In piyaghindu’ kamu’ indaginis-barapa ha pasalan sin jantung (heart) sin tau. Malingkat tuud, mataud aku kiyaingatan bahgu pangadji’an. Ha laum sin duwang ka pitu limabay, hinduan kami ha mga topic: Cardiovascular Physiology (bang biyariin magpump in jantung natu’) iban unu-unu na in kumugdan related ha Cardiovascular System atawa CVS. Daing ha topic Cardiac Cycle (unu na mayan in magjatu ha tiyap-tiyap “tibok ng puso”; pila in taud sin dugu’ mag-guwa), Hemodynamics (pagdagan sin dugu’ daing ha jantung pa baran, sambil magbalik); sambil...

Bismillah.. Malugay na aku wayruun nakasulat diy ha blog ini. Ha laum sin pila bulan limabay daing ha kasuwd aku pa UP College of Medicine, agun nagsunud-sunud na in mga hinang madtu-mariy. Kahaba’ hangka pitu awn kami exams. Kansa misan biyariin in baya ku magpost, agun kahunitan na aku manglawag time misan da kuman mag-update sin blog ku laung kailu. Higanap mu pa in pag-iyanun “Adaptation Stage” ku ha hula’ ini landuh in layu’ pa hula’ ku kalasahan; bukun hat ha layu’ niya ha hal pag-untasun (distance), sa’ sambil na ha layu’ sin piyagbiddaan sin tilibutan ku atawa ka “environment”. Bunnal niya, kiyahunitan tuud aku. Sa’ laung sin hambuuk taymanghud nagpatumtum kaku’: “Wayruun tau piyag-anak maingat na asal manaw.”  Ay ma’na, wayruun maluhay ha katan sin hinang kabayaan mu, miyumuhut-muhut mu abutan. Subay in katan ini labayan panandas iban hunit; iban subay tuud paglugtuan iban pagsabaran.  Alhamdulillah, magsukul aku pa Tuhan Rabbul ‘Aalamiyn ha katan si...

All thanks is due to Allah. Now I really have to prepare myself for a new world I am about to face. Ya Allah keep me strong and help me accomplish my task, as your servant, and let me be of greatest service to my People. Ameen. The official List of UP College of Medicine Accepted applicants for Batch 2017. (c) UP MEDICS