{"id":214,"date":"2018-03-07T11:18:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T11:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/?p=214"},"modified":"2018-03-08T05:14:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T05:14:14","slug":"mph-graduate-testimonial-may-2017-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/2018\/03\/07\/mph-graduate-testimonial-may-2017-3\/","title":{"rendered":"MPH Graduate Testimonial (May 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-215\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2018\/03\/Oyintenane-Suowari-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000\">Written by Oyintenane Suowari, NHS Doctor<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My experience during the MPH programme was a very enlightening and interesting one. Part of my initial drive to pursue this degree was an opportunity to take a break from within the four walls of a hospital and experience medical practice from a different perspective, the public health perspective. The modules offered gave me ample opportunity to gain that experience, and I can say it has been invaluable.<\/p>\n<p>Backed with the knowledge gained from the health protection and health promotion modules and interaction with people from diverse races and professional backgrounds, I successfully qualified to continue my medical practice here in the UK, an opportunity I am eagerly looking forward to exploring in the coming months. Also, thanks to the public health in low and middle income countries modules, I have deepened my understanding and increased my efficiency when managing infectious and chronic non-communicable diseases back in my home country.<\/p>\n<p>The MPH programme also exposed me to the operative models and structures of various international non-governmental organizations. I was able to use this knowledge to adapt these models to my peculiar local society, and help other non-governmental organizations achieve great successes with regards to the improvement of the health and wellbeing of people in my community.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, it was a worthwhile pursuit and I am glad I made the decision to do a Masters in Public Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Written by Oyintenane Suowari, NHS Doctor My experience during the MPH programme was a very enlightening and interesting one. Part of my initial drive to pursue this degree was an opportunity to take a break from within the four walls of a hospital and experience medical practice from a different perspective, the public health &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/2018\/03\/07\/mph-graduate-testimonial-may-2017-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MPH Graduate Testimonial (May 2017)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}