ScotGEM: an alternative pathway to medicine

From civil engineering to medicine – why Sara Cali chose an alternative route to working as a doctor within NHS Scotland.

Sara Cali

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Sara Cali
Final-year ScotGEM student

Sara Cali is a final-year ScotGEM student based in Dundee. Her first degree was in civil engineering at University College Dublin. She is keeping an open mind when it comes to specialty training, but paediatrics is currently the favourite! Her hobbies include running (a self-described ‘enthusiastic plodder’), sudoku and eating cake. Sara was the secretary of the ScotGEM Society, a student- and alumni-led body to support and link past and present ScotGEMs. The society also organises the occasional cèilidh and conferences for medical students.

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