😮 Merită VOLUNTARIATUL în FACULTATEA de MEDICINĂ? Cu Claudia Oprițoiu (SSMC, UMF Craiova)

🎙️ Guest: Claudia-Alexandra Oprițoiu is a fourth-year student at UMF Craiova and Vice President of Finance at the Society of Medical Students Craiova (SSMC), where volunteering and teamwork are part of who she is today and how she develops day by day. In this episode, Claudia talks about life as a medical student, from admission and sessions, to the relationship with professors, but also the fun moments and friendships made along the way. She shows us what community involvement means and how medical students can promote prevention and health, making a real change around them. She shares how her journey in SSMC, from active volunteer to coordinator of the Orphanage Initiative Romania (OIR) project to Vice President, taught her to find balance between faculty, projects and personal life, but also how important a team that supports you is. Claudia also talks about the unique opportunities offered by SSMC, including summer internships in different cities abroad. For her, it was Tunisia this year, where she discovered medicine from a different cultural perspective and learned how much you can grow when you have the courage to get involved and collaborate with passionate people. Her experiences show us that medicine, volunteering and leadership are built with patience, passion and trust in a real team, and the joy of living the faculty to the fullest, between work, involvement and beautiful moments with colleagues, makes every day count. 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/claudia_alexandra2109 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/claudia-opritoiu-039048311 💪 Host - Maria Voinea 📷 Instagram: instagram.com/maria.v7_ 📱 Episode no. 18. Podcast available on Youtube. 00:00 Intro 00:26 Intro Claudia Oprițoiu 01:06 About volunteering 02:49 What does a student society do? 04:37 The biggest SSMC project 08:59 Roles within the student association 11:31 How many students are in SSMC? 12:58 What makes SSMC different? 14:29 A week in her life as a medical student and volunteer 15:54 Do you have time to learn and get involved in projects? 16:42 What is the process of joining the association? 19:07 What skills should a future colleague have? 19:47 What would she do differently in her volunteer life? 21:43 Internship in Tunisia 26:48 About student exchanges 29:55 About internship in the hospital 34:08 What did you like most about college? 35:41 What specialty do you want to major in? 37:33 Fun in SSMC 39:05 How does he see the future in medicine after his volunteer experience? 40:13 Challenges in SSMC 41:59 Conflicts and their management 43:39 How was the admission to medicine? 46:47 Bac vs. Admission 48:48 How many hours a day did he study for admission? 50:32 The biggest opponent in the 12th grade 51:29 How was the first session? 52:58 The hardest exam - semio? 54:04 Advice for future students 🎧 The Grile-Admitere.ro podcast is about medical admissions and medicine. Our mission is to provide valuable information for the new generation — it is not an easy decision to choose this career, and we seek to bring more direction and transparency in this regard. If you are in the 11th grade, 12th grade or want to go to medicine, then this podcast is for you! ✔️ What is Grile-Admitere.ro? Grile-Rezidentiat.ro is the most used online platform for optimizing the learning method for medical admissions. The current platform is clearly superior to any similar system in Romania, being based on a technology that we have been constantly improving for over 10 years. Link: www.grile-admitere.ro Includes over 65,000 grids from the official bibliography - both for medicine, pharmacy and dentistry, but also for other medical faculties (medical assistance, dental technology, etc.). Grile-Admitere.ro includes functions such as: randomized testing, grids explained with AI, flashcards, exam simulation, progress graphs, notes, stopwatch, displaying the answer on the spot or at the end (with automatic calculation of the grade), discussion forum and many more. Statement: The opinions and information expressed by the podcast guests are personal and do not reflect those of the institutions that employ them or those of Grile-Admitere.ro.