SWGCD Nurturing Wellness - College of Medicine

Hello, Batch 2027!

🎉 Congratulations on your well-deserved promotion to Clerkship! 🎉A new chapter begins — one filled with growth, challenges, unforgettable patient encounters, sleepless duties, meaningful friendships, and stories that will shape the kind of doctors you will become.

You're invited to our Guidance Enrichment Seminar with the theme:
"CLERKSHIP STORIES: Beyond the White Coat"

📅 Date: May 29, 2026 (Friday)
⏰ Time: 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM
📍 Venue: Villarosa Hall, Angelo King Medical Research Center

Join Clinical Clerk John Francis D. Fernandez as he shares honest clerkship experiences, practical survival tips, relatable struggles, and words of encouragement to help you transition into hospital-based training with greater confidence, resilience, and heart.

✨ Plus, your Psychological Test Results will also be interpreted — giving you the opportunity to better understand your work styles, strengths, coping patterns, and personal approaches in the clinical setting.

✨ Don’t miss this chance to learn, grow, and even win exciting prizes!

See you there, Clinical Clerks! 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️

Have you ever asked yourself why you started this medicine journey in the first place? 🤔 It’s easy to reduce medicine to textbooks, scores, and performance, but have you ever stopped to think what it is really about? 🧘‍♀️

We hope you remember that medicine has always been about learning to understand people and to serve them, even when everything becomes uncertain 🫂. Remember, you are not just studying to pass; you are slowly becoming the kind of doctor who makes a difference 💖

Now pause, take a deep breath, and reconnect with your “why” again 🩺

When doubts linger, do not be afraid to take the next step, for they are part of the process 🌱. You, who once questioned your abilities, are also the same person who kept showing up 👏

For every doubt, just tell yourself “one more ✊.” You won’t even notice that you’re already living the life you once hoped for ⛅️. Don’t let setbacks outweigh the endless possibilities life has in store for you 💖

Now pause for a while and say, “One more day, future doc” 🩺

Have you ever reached a point in your life where everything felt hopeless, but in the end, it all worked out anyway? 🤗

We invite you to look back on that time and remember how you made it through ⭐️, and how it shaped you into the person you are today 🧘‍♀️. You see, everything in life has its own purpose that we may not fully understand yet, but trust that it is all working out for the better 🤝

If you’ve made it this far, have faith that you will continue to make it despite everything that may try to hold you back 🙏. Don’t let those thoughts consume you; instead, choose courage and keep believing, future doc 🩺

In life, we sometimes focus only on the end ⛰️—the successes and the path that leads us there—that we forget to appreciate the in-between 🪜: the struggles and everything it takes to actually reach the top 🏆

When we overlook the journey to the destination, we also skip the process of becoming 🧘‍♀️. Failures, mistakes, and uncertainties are all part of being human; we do not need to be afraid of them 🫂

Know that life does not get easier when you are about to cross the finish line, but that’s okay, because there is always a rainbow after the storm 🌈

You got this, future doc 🩺—just as you always have since day one ✨

Medicine has a way of making us focus on everything we still lack, especially our self-belief when the next step feels like a blur 🧐

The good news is that you don’t need to have all the answers 🧘‍♀️. Just trust that everything will work out in the end, because it will 🫂. Our lives are carefully planned 🙏🏻; from the moment the sun wakes us up to the time the moon rises 🌗

Amid the fatigue and uncertainty, we hope you continue to have faith in your own growth 🪴, because it can take you farther than fear ever will 💖

As this long week comes to an end, don’t forget to give yourself some time to rest — not only for your tired body, but also for your mind and well-being 🕊️

Many times, we push ourselves just to get through the day, only to wake up to another week feeling even more drained. Just like every living thing needs time to recover, you deserve rest too 🧘‍♀️

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed by academic demands and personal challenges, may you find moments of peace, comfort, and support in the people and things that keep you grounded 🙏🏻

Just as you give your best for your exams, we hope you also learn to give that same care and compassion to yourself, future Doc 🫂

Caption by: Arvine Rase

Hey, just wanted to let you know that everything will eventually work out in the end 🤗. The answers to the questions you’ve been asking may not be what you expected, or they may take a little longer to arrive, but trust the timing 🥰

You didn’t get this far just to get this far 💎. Every good thing takes time, and so should you 🍃. Everyone is moving at their own pace, so comparing your day one to someone else’s day ten is a major disservice to yourself 🙇‍♀️

Keep in mind what it took for you to get here, and be proud of that, future doc 🙌

If you are worrying about exams you haven’t taken yet, mistakes you haven’t made, results you haven’t seen, or situations that may never even happen, it’s normal 🥹. What’s not healthy is allowing worry and fear to control your life 🙅‍♀️

Breathe a little easier, future docs 🩺. The future does not need you to panic 🫂. It needs you to prepare with faith, patience, and courage ✨. The best thing you can do right now is to focus on and live in the present 🌱

Remember, you do not have to carry tomorrow’s worries today 💖

There will be days when you feel like you’re standing in front of something far greater than you could ever handle 🧗‍♀️. When understanding feels out of reach and confidence feels even farther, what do we do? 🤔

We pause and allow ourselves to rest 🧘‍♀️. It can feel overwhelming when we try to do everything at once 🫨. Just as creation unfolds step by step, growth within us also takes time 🌿. With faith, patience, and persistence, what once felt impossible will slowly become something you can do with confidence 🙌

If you’re in the middle of that “impossible” phase, keep going ✨. You’re probably closer than you think 🩺