Hurdles of a common Ugandan medical student.
I started seeing my dream of becoming a pharmacist get into shape after choosing BCM/ICT as my combination at A level. I thought it was simple as this; finishing high school, enrolling to University for bachelors in pharmacy, spend 4 years studying (by then) plus one year of internship and boom, a pharmacist. The reality was(or is) totally very different from all I (we) were thinking about. The Ugandan education system doesn't not favour a common Ugandan aspiring medical student. To beat the system, you have to be either extremely bright, or extremely rich or extremely both. To my line of pharmacy and by my year of enrollment (2020/21) there were only two public universities offering Bachelors in pharmacy; Makerere University and Mbarara University of Science and Technology. What I meant with a common Ugandan aspiring medical student is someone who is capable of entering the line of medical from A level, and also being able to pay the huge tuition fee for the private universities ...