Dr. Emma Dash has been named QEH Intern of the Year 2015-2016. Here, she receives a gift from Director of Medical Services, Dr. Anthony Harris.
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Dr. Emma Dash is QEH Intern of the Year
Dr. Emma Dash has been named QEH Intern of the Year.
The announcement came from Internship Co-ordinator at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), Dr. Clyde Cave, during a ceremony held in the QEH’s Boardroom yesterday morning, which saw Intern Awards being presented for the period June 2015 to July 2016, to Dr. Dash and six other outstanding interns – Dr. Joeleita Agard, Dr. Kimberlee Clarke, Dr. Sara Dana-Patel, Dr. Cheyanne Francis, Dr. Amelia Haynes and Dr. Janine Taitt.
Dr. Dash graduated from the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, before taking up her internship at the QEH. She would have spent three-month rotations in each of the major clinical departments at the QEH – Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Medicine and Surgery.
“I am very grateful for this award,” she said following the ceremony.
“Obviously it was very hard to choose, because I worked along with so many incredible interns in my year. It was a tough year, but we all got through it, and I think that if we work and treat our patients as if they are family... as if they are our brothers or sisters, it is a lot harder to go wrong,” she stated, as she spoke of her experience.
“I started in Surgery and then went to Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Then I went to Medicine and finished in Paediatrics. My highlight was surgery – I really enjoyed surgery; it was a great experience. We learned so many different things – the good, the bad and the ugly,” she added.
Of her future plans, she noted that she will be moving to the Bahamas to work in Paediatrics. She is currently studying for her US exams. She also just completed her Canadian exams and eventually hopes to practice child neurology in Canada. (RSM)