Aspiring Docs Diaries

Meet the author:

Aisa Iyawe

Med Student

Aisa Iyawe is originally from Nigeria but she moved to California when she was four years old. She graduated with a degree in neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her love for emergency medicine and under served communities led her to attend Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. She is now a third-year MD/MPH student. She hopes to one day become an emergency doctor, open a few clinics in medically under served communities, and help shape public policy to serve lower-income communities. If you would like to learn more about her journey to becoming a doctor, you can read her blog at aisaestelle.blogspot.com or follow her @aisaestelle on Instagram.

Stories by Aisa

Nov 26, 2018

Dealing with Patient Death

Aisa Iyawe

I lost my first patient. I was only a second-year medical student at Keck School of Medicine and this was my first time shadowing at a Level One Trauma Center. Read More