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7/27/2019 Proud to be their teacher
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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
– from “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
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t has now been four years since my classmates and I
started at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School. Early
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MD Class of 2013. These are the gallant and resourcefulheroes who started school together with us way back
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energetic, and rather young-looking MS1s of various
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their medical school years. However, for the handful of
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four years only brings us to our halfway mark as we
go through our PhD qualifying examinations. My well-
meaning colleagues, concerned for our collective sanity,
often asked me why anyone would want to delay graduation by at least three more years for additional
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to share a little bit about the mysterious things we get
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entertaining the reader.
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The Road Less Travelled
OPINION
– Journeying with the Duke-NUS MD/PhD ProgrammeBy Kenneth Goh
Photos: Kenneth Goh
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40 • SMA News July 2013
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Kenneth is currently in the fourth year of the Duke-
NUS MD/PhD programme. When he’s not running
science experiments in the lab, he can be found taking
photos for school events or reading PubMed for leisure.
Before medical school, Kenneth spent his undergraduate
years at the Uni versit y of Chicago.
off into realms of knowledge much farther from the
clinic than many readers of this august newsletter are
accustomed to. Ever since we switched our short-sleeved
medical student white coats for the long-sleeved lab
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are actually amazing new tools that allow us to study
diseases, their causes and effects in greater detail than
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understanding of diseases and better ways to treat them.
And now, here we are, after four years of school at
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their time as students here, while we will be staying behind
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