{"id":232,"date":"2018-04-18T13:30:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T13:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/giving\/?p=232"},"modified":"2020-03-10T12:24:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T12:24:14","slug":"wilson-ong-ying-fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/giving\/wilson-ong-ying-fa\/","title":{"rendered":"He almost walked away from medical school"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"document\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"451\" src=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/giving\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/04\/Giving_Wilson-e1524122336403.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/giving\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/04\/Giving_Wilson-e1524122336403.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/giving\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/04\/Giving_Wilson-e1524122336403-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Wilson Ong Ying Fa, MBBS Class of 2016<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span>NUS Medical Society \u2013 Christine Chong Hui Xian Bursary<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>Wilson Ong still vividly remembers the day he decided to become a doctor. He was in Secondary 1 when his mother became seriously ill. Her life was saved when a surgeon performed emergency surgery to remove a ruptured cyst. There and then he decided his future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yet, many years later when he had the medical school application in front of him years later, he hesitated. Wilson\u2019s father works as a driver while his mother is a housewife, and he worried about their ability to pay for a medical education.\u00a0\u201cI didn\u2019t come from a very rich background and, honestly speaking, I worried about whether I could afford to pay the school fees.\u201d He was about to choose a cheaper course when someone told him that the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine could help students facing financial constraints.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Thanks to the NUS Medical Society \u2013 Christine Chong Hui Xian Bursary, Wilson was able to seize the opportunity to study medicine at NUS Medicine.\u00a0 His bursary spurred him onto success as he felt very strongly that he wanted to uphold the belief that the donors to the NUS Medical Society \u2013 Christine Chong bursary had in recipients like him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Wilson has now graduated and plans to pay it forward. \u201cThere are many people who have the passion for medicine and who have the potential to be great and caring doctors,\u201d he said. \u201cThese people should not miss the opportunity to study medicine because of financial constraints.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/giving\/giving\/why-give\/giving-stories\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more Giving Stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilson Ong Ying Fa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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