Leave fear behind,
move forward in faith
Director of Global Health in
Asian Medical Students' Association Malaysia (AMSA) International
Ang Zi Qi
“Penang food is the best,”
In today’s episode, let us listen to a story of thriving in Medical school with outstanding academics and extracurricular achievements. As a Dean Lister for consecutive 3 years and Director of Global Health in Asian Medical Students' Association Malaysia (AMSA) International—Ang Zi Qi, a year 3 medical student, originated from Butterworth, Penang, who favors Penang food a lot.
The initial reason for her to join AMSA community service is her interest in doing volunteer work, particularly in community service. She thinks that there are a lot of people needing help and it is a blessing to be able to help others. She began her AMSA journey as a committee member of the multimedia department in AMSA UKM community service. Besides, she was the Public Health officer in AMSA UKM, organizing AMSA health day with the theme of “Sex Education”, as the very first online Public Health event, it was undoubtedly very successful in convincing others regarding the doability of online event. Being the pioneer webinar organiser, she received abundant positive feedback.
Zi Qi, since year one, has been enthusiastic and actively joining AMSA UKM.
Let us dive into her journey of AMSA.
For the subsequent year, she was introduced into another tier of AMSA, which is AMSA Malaysia, as the Director of Public Health 2020/2021. She established a monthly awareness program (MAP) in AMSA Malaysia which initially had only 2 annual activities, Health Day and Community Service. As a result of the Monthly Awareness Program, many informative posts were created through social media with an educative purpose, to help recognise health issues, understand minor communities, and also to break stigma in certain diseases. However, Zi Qi has higher ambition and expectation, she hopes that more people can be exposed and benefited through this advocacy program.
Marjorie, as the AMSA International Senior Advisor, Zi Qi was encouraged to have a better vision on the approach of medical students contributing to Malaysia's public health system. Zi Qi is acknowledged by Marjorie as a humble, professional, and extremely altruistic in her work. She was then recommended to AMSA International as the Director of Global Health. This is not the end of the journey, it is just the beginning. She is now publishing and improvising the guidelines and instructions in every execution of AMSA International, especially interchapter collaboration projects.
She is also the editor of the Global Health subsidiary. She successfully visualized and clarified the execution guidelines in Global Health, including the collaboration and action between Global Health Training, Global Health Meeting, and Global Health Events.
With the support of the senior,
Currently, Zi Qi is also the AMSA Global Health Organizing Committee, organizing AMSA Global Health Training which is a training specially tailored for the members of AMSA International to empower participants with the resources and opportunities in global health. The initiative is to prepare and train members to be competent in global health affairs, and subsequently drive the development of the subsidiary. Besides being the organizer, she was the moderator of the Global Health Training.
For the recent tenure, she is entitled with the important mission as a Director of Global Health, and she carries on as a student advisor in the 2 consecutives Global Health Training 1 and Global Health Training 2. Her well-known achievements resulted in being an invited speaker for both AMSA Taiwan Public Health and AMSA Philippines General Assembly parallel The Standing Committee on Public Health (SCOPH) session.
Not merely sailing smoothly in AMSA, Zi Qi is also a
JPA scholarship and Biasiswa Kanan UKM holder, where her outstanding results astonished Faculty Medicine of UKM.
Be courageous to achieve anything you desire, always attempt to aim high and give it a try.
Be opportunistic
try to be professional, give commitment and be preservative.
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Many medical students might feel intimidated to join any extracurricular event due to the heavy commitment in academics, however, planning time wisely and studying smart are the key. UKM actually provided a prestigious platform, which is AMSA for medical students to strive on. And to grab this golden chance and be willing to be committed, the return will be unexpected and rewarding. You will be surprised how much you have grown and gained in this AMSA community. It is an eye opening lifetime experience that is only available in our undergraduate life.
Some tips
from Zi Qi
Zi Qi also mentioned that being an ordinary medical student, she constantly feels tired and needs to replenish herself. To overcome her occasional negativity, she approaches her supervisor and Dr Khor for advice. As a student, there is always some limitation, and she might feel powerless. She sometimes thinks that her English is a limitation and she is now working hard on her language. However, she believed that people have unlimited potential. Initially the fear of the unknown and the fear of initiating something new might stop you from attempting a challenge.
" Leave fear behind, move forward in faith, embrace the
adventure. Unleash your potential without hesitating much, just do whatever you desire and persevere till
the end "
If anyone needs advice
do not hesitate to approach her
a174612siswa.ukm.edu.my