我叫依卡，来自吉布提供和国。我从2013年3月开始在山东大学医学院（现山东大学基础医学院）学习，五年来，我在这里学到了很多，经历了很多，其中参加临床技能大赛是最重要的经历。
来华留学生临床技能比赛在中国还是第一次举办。10月28日是一个周六，班长通知我们留学生临床技能比赛选手，面试要开始了，希望我们积极参与。虽然对这场比赛知之甚少，但我还是怀着紧张的心情参加了面试，一切顺利，我最终成为了4人团队中的一员。
11月，我们在山东省立医院临床技能培训中心开始了培训。我们需要在三周之内迅速掌握包括内科、外科、妇产科学、儿科和急救等在内的30多个项目。一周五天，每天从早上8:30开始，到下午5:30结束，有的时候甚至到7点，每天学习3-4个项目。一开始，语言障碍是我们最担心的，但是技能中心的老师们不停地鼓励我们，激发我们的斗志，还有中国同学作为志愿者在旁边翻译，事实证明：只要你想做一件事，你就能克服困难取得成功。
临床技能培训中心是一个神奇的地方，会在不到一个月的时间内训练你从最基本的静脉注射到腹腔镜检查的30多个项目高效而熟练掌握，虽然以前在学校也学过，但是真正的临床技能操作还是不同。
3周的训练结束了，12月8日，我们从济南出发，赶往大赛的举办地——天津市。赛前的晚上我们都无法好好入睡，因为太紧张了。9日，我们赶往天津医科大学，来自中国28所高校的代表队参赛，每队4人，共104人参赛。比赛分为2轮，上午的初赛分为6站，主要考察内外妇儿的部分。我们荣幸地闯入了决赛，我们面对的是震后急救，我们急速分工，分别负责包扎、协助、安慰患者，取得了全国第二名的成绩。每一个参与者都很棒！
能有机会参加大赛，对我来说是非常难得的经验。我学习到了很多很多，交到了一些很棒的新朋友，还得到了一个如家人般的导师。
最后我想感谢山东大学基础医学院，我的导师齐老师和很棒的队友瑞科，爱民和思明。
My name is IKRAN MAHAMOUD, from the Republic of Djibouti. I started studying in Shandong University School of Medicine in March 2013, since that I have learned a lot and experienced a lot, among which taking part in the competition was the most important one.
This competition was the first of its kind for international students in China, everything started on October 28th Saturday when our CR informed us that there is competition and the school arranged an interview to evaluate the student who will like to take part.
I took a part and did the interview. I was really stressed and didn't know how this will go beside that we didn't have any information about the competition but it went fine and I have been one of the student the school have chosen.
After that we started the training and getting ready for the competition at the training center of the Shandong Provincial Hospital. We got 30 clinical procedures to master it in three weeks including Internal medicine, Surgery, Gynecology, Pediatrics and First Aid. Our training was five days in week from 8:30 AM morning to 5:30 PM at afternoon and sometimes to 7:00 PM, every day we were covering 3 to 4 procedures with encouraging, motivating and supporting instructors and Chinese student volunteer assistants who were translating and helping us to understand more. At the beginning, language barrier was the first thing which came to our mind but our teachers did their best to make us understand with many ways even sometimes with body language and signs, I believe that the language barrier that we are all scared of isn’t a problem because if you want to do anything you can do it.
The training center is a place where you can start training from the base like IV injections to laparoscopy, where we mastered all the 30 procedures even though we practiced this before in school and hospital but this was different because here we had to limit the time and do it in proficiency way.
We finish our training within 3 weeks then we left Jinan and went to Tianjin where the competition was held, at that night we couldn't sleep well we were all stressed. Next day we went to Tianjin Medical University, and 28 universities around China participate in this competition, including 4 students from each university in total 104 students. The competition was two rounds, the first part was held in the morning in this part we did 6 stations covering Internal Medicine, Surgery, Gynecology and pediatrics. Only 13 of 28 universities went to the second round of the competition. In the second part we did first aid for patient who was suffering an amputation of limbs, we did well on this and we have been the second winners even though everybody was a winner because of their participation.
This was great experience and good chance for me. I have learned a lot and got many new amazing friends and get introduced to one of the best mentors who just been like a family for us.
I want to thank Shandong University School of Basic Medical Sciences, my mentors Prof. Qi and my wonderful team members PITOUT DERICK, GHAVAMIAN ARMIN, and REDDY SIMMY for this experience.
