Hello everyone!
These are my Chevening essays and I'm finding it hard to make the 300 word count. Can my essays also please be reviewed and guide me on what to fix or remove and what to include if I haven't. Thank you in advance, much appreciated!
LEADERSHIP
Describe a time when you demonstrated leadership. In your answer, please address the following:
What was the context or challenge you faced?
What specific actions did you take as a leader?
What was the outcome, and what did you learn?
How has this experience shaped your approach to leadership?
A true leader to me is someone who identifies a problem, takes initiative to address it, and inspires others to follow suit with the same passion. While UK dental education reinforces professional skills, Sudan faces a big challenge, where 22.2% of patients experience dental anxiety and 87.7% live with untreated decay, often resorting to extractions. Poor undergraduate training limits students' ability to advocate for restorative choices, leaving patients to choose unnecessary extractions and risk long-term dental health issues.
In 2017, while serving as a teaching assistant in my alma mater's restorative department, I noticed final year students struggled to communicate diagnosis and treatment options to patients. To address this, I held role-playing sessions for 120 finalists over 3 weeks. Within a month, patient questionnaires showed the students led 90 patients to consent to restorative treatments and the student feedback, while informal, showed increased confidence during clinical interactions.
After recognizing a scalable need, I founded UDS in 2018, Sudan's first online platform for dental students. I developed and taught restorative courses and within 6 months, of the 43 students I taught, 75% passed their final restorative exams. Inspired by this, I completed a dental aesthetics course at Ain Shams University, Egypt to strengthen my clinical skills and enhance UDS's restorative curriculum. By 2019, I recruited 4 teaching assistants to cover 2 additional subjects, and supported 180 students with an 80% pass rate. Today, UDS connects 2000 dental students nationwide and offers paid teaching opportunities to young academics.
These experiences taught me that leadership involves creating systems that empower others. It developed my collaborative style that I carried throughout my role as a practitioner in Mercury Dental Clinics since 2020.Through Chevening, I aim to expand my leadership journey by building inclusive societies where education and healthcare improve patient outcomes in Sudan.
ONE ESSAY PER THREAD
These are my Chevening essays and I'm finding it hard to make the 300 word count. Can my essays also please be reviewed and guide me on what to fix or remove and what to include if I haven't. Thank you in advance, much appreciated!
LEADERSHIP
Describe a time when you demonstrated leadership. In your answer, please address the following:
What was the context or challenge you faced?
What specific actions did you take as a leader?
What was the outcome, and what did you learn?
How has this experience shaped your approach to leadership?
A true leader to me is someone who identifies a problem, takes initiative to address it, and inspires others to follow suit with the same passion. While UK dental education reinforces professional skills, Sudan faces a big challenge, where 22.2% of patients experience dental anxiety and 87.7% live with untreated decay, often resorting to extractions. Poor undergraduate training limits students' ability to advocate for restorative choices, leaving patients to choose unnecessary extractions and risk long-term dental health issues.
In 2017, while serving as a teaching assistant in my alma mater's restorative department, I noticed final year students struggled to communicate diagnosis and treatment options to patients. To address this, I held role-playing sessions for 120 finalists over 3 weeks. Within a month, patient questionnaires showed the students led 90 patients to consent to restorative treatments and the student feedback, while informal, showed increased confidence during clinical interactions.
After recognizing a scalable need, I founded UDS in 2018, Sudan's first online platform for dental students. I developed and taught restorative courses and within 6 months, of the 43 students I taught, 75% passed their final restorative exams. Inspired by this, I completed a dental aesthetics course at Ain Shams University, Egypt to strengthen my clinical skills and enhance UDS's restorative curriculum. By 2019, I recruited 4 teaching assistants to cover 2 additional subjects, and supported 180 students with an 80% pass rate. Today, UDS connects 2000 dental students nationwide and offers paid teaching opportunities to young academics.
These experiences taught me that leadership involves creating systems that empower others. It developed my collaborative style that I carried throughout my role as a practitioner in Mercury Dental Clinics since 2020.Through Chevening, I aim to expand my leadership journey by building inclusive societies where education and healthcare improve patient outcomes in Sudan.
ONE ESSAY PER THREAD
