The author of this blog, Seye Abimbola, has an MBChB from the Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU) Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He edited his medical school journal, IFEMED from 2004-06 and he has also been international advisor to journals published by the BMJ Group since 2005. His articles have appeared in IFEMED, student BMJ, as well as the BMJ. He was awarded the 2007 BMJ Clegg Scholarship and also won the 2007 Global Forum for Health Research/The Lancet Essay Prize. Seye was a pre-registration house officer at Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesha, Nigeria, one of the component hospitals of the OAU Teaching Hospitals Complex. He did his national service as a research assistant in the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, and he is presently a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is passionate about having health research quality and capacity boosted in developing countries, especially in Nigeria.
I had been thinking about starting a blog for as long as I could remember knowing about the possibility of blogging.
Then, at last, the opportunity came with ceaseless access to the internet, the peculiar circumstances of being a graduate research student that needs to keep a close tab on the passage of time, interests, ideas and events, and of being in a far-flung corner of the world, in Australia, far from everywhere I’ve known, which presents me with the extraordinary perceptual benefits of an outsider.
This blog therefore hopes to document, among other things, reflections, experiences, intellectual flights of fancy, and ideas tested and contested as signposts of an adventure in medical research.
