The Story of a San Juan Medicine Student Who Established Himself as One of the Country’s Most Talented People

For him, it is not the most important thing to establish himself as the second best future doctor among hundreds of people in the country and get scholarships in two great universities. For her, the most important thing is to be able to represent in the best possible way the National University of Cordoba, the educational institution that is training her to become a doctor. It is 23-year-old Tomas Madrid Fernandez of San Juan, in his fifth year of medicine at the National University of Cordoba, who was second in the 29th edition of the National Academic Olympiad of Medicine Students.

The competition, which was held again after two years of inactivity due to the pandemic, is organized by the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the National University of Córdoba and It aims to bring together the best average students from each national university. It was held over the weekend in La Falda and was attended by hundreds of students, the best average from seven universities: National University of Córdoba, National University of Cuyo, National University of La Plata, La Rioja, Rosario, Tucumán and National Northeast. university. AndHe entered that Cordovan institution with the best average of 15 students and finished second.

“I didn’t know these Olympics existed and I was surprised by my second place because the best students go to the country, I wanted to be there to live the experience. What makes me happy is that leaving our university to represent it well, in the first 10 of the Olympics we put four of our students and it is a barbaric pride”, expressed to the young man, emphasizing that one of the four students who entered the top ten is from San Juan: Agustin Perez Maturano, who is also his friend and study partner. “We are pleased with what has been achieved,” says Tomas, who was born in the capital of San Juan.

How did the competition develop? On Saturday morning, participants of the event were to take a proficiency test with 100 questions on knowledge acquired in the basic cycle of a medical career, including questions from general culture and questions from the English language.

“What I have achieved so far is through my own effort, logically this gap fills me with joy but it does not take me away from my goal, which is to be the best doctor possible,” Tomas Too express out loud, Making it clear that the medicine is in the blood. It is that the future professional says that he inherited medicine from his paternal family, although at some point he thought of following in the footsteps of his father Eduardo Madrid in the study of civil engineering, this being his uncle Roberto Madrid, His grandfather was Rogelio Fernandez and a noble. friend, also a recognized doctor like Walter Storman, who tipped the scales to dedicate himself to health. “Medicine has a lot of meaning in the family,” he says.

“When I started studying I wanted to be a civil engineer because I loved physics and maths but then they stopped showing me medicine and I came to this beautiful world which I don’t regret. It was the best decision Which I could do. Because every day I make it my goal to be professional. I am passionate about medicine and my passion for the profession,” says Madrid, who has one more year left in his career and then decides which branch of medicine to pursue: “I want to do heart surgery. Wish, this is something I actually do. Like it,” he says.

The young future professional who had to leave rugby in San Juan Rugby to be able to devote himself entirely to medicine, chose to move to Córdoba because it was there that his relatives were received. In addition, the person who had previously studied at Central University College, which he thanked for giving him the “tools to study”, placed second in the Olympics, a scholarship to an accredited university in the United States. can. In addition to the scholarship to the National University of Corrientes, Italian Hospital in Buenos Aires. “Since I started studying, no one has given me anything and any scholarship I get for merit will be a special value to continue the training I am very passionate about”, Expressed the young talent of San Juan who would surely triumph in the field of medicine in a few years.