Jared Browning knew he wanted to be a doctor the moment he witnessed a group of injured school children enter the Nepalese hospital where he was volunteering last June, just months after a major earthquake devastated the South Asian country. Limited in his skills, he wished desperately he could do more to help.
But after completing an honours thesis this year on how chemotherapy affects heart health, the 22-year-old biology major is torn between a future in medicine or research as the best way to fulfill his passion for helping others.
“A lot of people in science, we come in and we just have this mindset that’s ‘pre-med,’ and ‘I want to be a doctor,’” says Browning, who is graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a concentration in Health Science at June Convocation.
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