IT IS FINISHED!

The time has finally come. The long awaited graduation. It has been a long and rewarding internship as well as training process. Though we as a family faced many challenges to thought patterns, life style change and cultural disturbances we have grown so much closer to each other and the Lord. December 1st marks the day of completion. Not just of the internship but the entire clinical officer training process thus qualifying me as a Kenyan clinical officer.

This is the building we have been living in the last year. Currently we are in the process of moving to another house for the remaining couple of months we are here.

Surgery was one of the most demanding services I rotated in. It had me up before 6am everyday and home after 6pm. It was also a lot of fun because it was so hands on. This poor guy had a major fracture needing a special plate screwed in.

Every service I was on gave me an opportunity to be in an outpatient setting. This was a little more challenging in terms of communication, but God's grace is sufficient.

This is most of the interns that were at Tenwek for the year. In all there were 8 clinical officers and 8 medical officers. At one point the medical officers went on strike leaving the rest of us to pick up the slack for almost a month. It was a difficult time and also rewarding as God daily gave us the strength to rise above.

One graduation gift was a trip to the Masai Mara. We were the first group to ever have such an experience. This is the group in front of a huge pond full of hippos.

Graduation day was great. It was a little anti-climactic because I still was on call the whole next day. This is a group shot of us and some consulting doctors who were involved in training us.