00:00Yeah, so I'm Seamus McMinn originally from Dublin and my previous background was working in the Irish language
00:08and part of that time was spent actually working in the Irish department at the University of Ulster
00:14So it was a natural sort of choice when I heard that graduate medicine was going to be done at Ulster
00:28Oakrop here in Magee in Derry that definitely piqued my interest and in that summer of 2020 decided to start studying for the entrance exams and make a real effort to get there
00:43It's a really interesting path to take then I was speaking to another graduate and she came from Irish language and language background too
00:51Yeah, the one thing it always gives you is interesting stuff to talk to patients about
00:58when they realise that you've been through different paths in life as well
01:06but I think in line with the theme of the speeches there today, that whole thing, life's only understood when you look back at it
01:19and hopefully for everybody here today this all makes sense for them and represents achieving something they really, really wanted to do
01:29It's a really positive story, it's not just for all your personal journeys but just workforce issues within the health service
01:37We need you guys, you know, it's a...
01:39Yeah, and even like the history of university here in this city, you know, that it's now, you know, a flagship institution that's in Derry
01:50that's staying in Derry and the hope would be that along with that institution of the school actually being there
01:57that everything else that Derry deserves will flow, infrastructure, you know, proper payment for people, do home care, nurses
02:11and all of that will grow from having the School of Medicine here in Derry
02:16And where are you now for yourself in terms of your own medical...
02:19Luckily I was able to get out in the Gelbin
02:21Excellent job
02:22So I'll be starting there at the end of July
02:26and I'm delighted to invite 10 or 12 others from our year group who'll be starting in out in the Gelbin as well
02:35so I'm delighted to be able to serve, you know, some of the community that we spent the last four years studying in
02:45and practicing to become doctors
02:47Right
02:48It'll be really nice to be able to serve them and look after them
02:53As Colin was saying there, just to serve the community?
02:56Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah
02:58Needless to say, everybody who's come through the School of Medicine and now become doctors today
03:07gives their full support to the School of Medicine and anything that is needed in the future
03:13to either help bolster it up or advance and progress it on, absolutely
03:19There's that great sense of, you know, we all did it together and it was only because the School of Medicine was there
03:25and that we were all there for each other that it made the last four years possible
