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Four students with their eyes set on a career in medicine will soon be jetting off to the US on a two-week research experience after winning the Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar’s (WCM-Q) Healing Hands essay contest.
The annual essay competition challenges local high school students to write the best composition on a given topic. This year, the subject was ‘Lifestyle Medicine Practice in Qatar’, with students asked to write an 800-word essay with consideration to the health of the community and exploring the challenges and benefits of integrating lifestyle medicine into the Qatari healthcare system.
In all, 37 essays were attempted, out of which 21 were successfully submitted by students from 10 different schools across Doha, along with Qatar Foundation’s Academic Bridge Program. Of those students, 14 received certificates of participation and three received honourable mentions but there could be only four winners: Aisha Rashid al Marri of Al Eman Independent School for Girls, Dalal Khalid al Fadli from the Academic Bridge Program, Dyana Hamad Alblooshi of Qatar Academy Doha and Haya Khalid Rahimi, who attends Newton International Academy, Barwa City.
The four, along with a chaperone each, will now fly off to the US, where they will spend one week gaining work experience at Weill Cornell Medicine’s world-class biomedical research laboratories in New York, as well as attending lectures with faculty and meeting students. They will then move upstate to Cornell University in Ithaca where they will stay at the campus and tour the wide-ranging facilities that the Ivy League university offers.
Haya Khalid Rahimi said her essay discussed consumption in Qatar and the need for balanced diets, sufficient sleep and a reduction in stress. She also talked about how the Qatari climate, particularly summer, can demotivate people from exercising.
Aisha Rashid al Marri said her essay examined cardiovascular diseases and how lifestyle medicine – a balanced diet, increased exercise, reduced stress and smoking cessation – can prevent them.
Noha Saleh, director of student recruitment and outreach at WCM-Q, said: “The quality of entries for the Healing Hands contest improves every year; this year the judges had a particularly difficult time in selecting the winners, such was the high standard.”
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15/05/2019
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