About me
Spanish version: Sobre mí.
Some things about me
My Story
My name is Daniel Medina Neira. I was born and grew up in Arequipa, Peru. Practicing sports was the most important thing for me for most of my life, but now my priority is studying medicine. I have always had a lot of interests.
I am a physician. I finished medical school in 2023 and am currently doing my SERUMS in the Salinas Moche health post (“Puesto de Salud Salinas Moche”), where I am working as the head physician. I started working here in May 2024, and I will finish this job in September 2025.
What I am working on
- Learning new things to be a great physician.
- Research: I am working on some research projects. This is something I find difficult, but I am still trying.
- YouTube channel: I have the YouTube channel DaniMedi about things related to studying, medicine, some programs like Anki, and some things related to research. You could check it out.
- SERUMS: right now I am doing the SERUMS (rural service).
Other stuff
- Doing exercise: sports were the center of my life for a long time, right now they are not but I still do exercise every day.
- Programming: I love R, and I like to use this programming language to automate some things and try to do some projects, like working with APIs to create Anki decks to learn the basic vocabulary for different languages and other projects.
- Writing: I like writing poems, short stories, and some other writings.
- I also have many other interests and skills, and I try to do them sometimes, however, I have to say that time seems short sometimes.
My curriculum
Education
2005-2016
School: Colegio La Salle – Arequipa
2017-2023
Medical school at “Universidad Católica de Santa María”
January – December 2023
Medical internship at the hospital: “Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins”.
March 2024
Bachelor’s degree in Human Medicine issued by “Universidad Católica de Santa María”
March 2024
Medical degree issued by “Universidad Católica de Santa María”
Ranked in the top 20% of my graduating class
Certifications
October 2014
Certificate for participating in the 9th edition of the international United Nations model BOLMUNPAZ organized by La Salle school in La Paz, Bolivia.
July 2015
Certificate of completion of the course for Chinese Language Programme in the Institute of Education for International Students awarded by the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
October 2015
Certificate of completion of intensive English as a second language instruction at Arkansas State University at Jonesboro.
March 2017
Certificate of completion of the First Aid course at the Peruvian Red Cross.
August 2020
Certificate in data analysis for life sciences, HarvardX
Professional certificate obtained by completing the courses:
> Statistics and R
> Introduction to Linear Models and Matrix Algebra
> Statistical Inference and Modeling for High-throughput Experiments
> High-Dimensional Data Analysis
September 2020
ICH Good Clinical Practice E6 (R2)
January 2022
Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification.
National Health Care Provider Solutions Basic Life Support program.
2020 – 2022
Microsoft Certification of Microsoft Office Specialist for:
> Word (February 2020)
> Excel (March 2020)
> PowerPoint (February 2022)
> Outlook (March 2022)
August 2022
GPH001: Global Public Health
SDGAcademyX
Exams
December 2016
First place in the second general exam for entering the university to medical school.
November 2021
USMLE Step 1 score: 256.
February 2022
TOEFL iBT Test total score: 112/120.
> Reading: 30/30
> Listening: 29/30
> Speaking: 25/30
> Writing: 28/30
November 2022
USMLE Step 2 score: 255.
December 2023
Examen Nacional de Medicina (ENAM) score: 16.44
September 2024
OET:
> Listening: 430/500 (B)
> Reading: 480/500 (A)
> Speaking: 380/500 (B)
> Writing: 300/500 (C+)
Work experience
May 2024 – present
Head physician of the Salinas Moche health post in Moquegua, Peru.
Research experience
2019-2021
Member of the research group of medical students “Centro de Investigación y Estudios Médicos” (CIEM), affiliated with the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA).
Extracurricular activities
I have a YouTube channel about medicine, studying, programming, statistics, and more.
I have a personal website where I share some experiences, learnings, reflections, and more.
Publications and presentations
August 2020
Publication of the article ” La automedicación promovida por medios de comunicación, un peligro con consecuencias en tiempos de crisis de salud pública por COVID-19″ in the journal “Revista Cubana de Información en Ciencias de la Salud”.
Link
August 2021
Presentation in phase 3 of the scientific congress XXXV CCN SOCIMEP Tacna 21.
September 2024
Publication of the article “Lesión renal aguda en el síndrome inflamatorio multisistémico pediátrico asociado a COVID-19 (SIM-C) durante 2020-2022: una revisión sistemática” in the journal “Revista Peruana de Pediatría”.
Link
Skills and interests
Programming, statistics, data management, data visualization, web scraping, web apps, and more using R programming language oriented to research.
Share the things I learn with other people. I do this mainly through my YouTube channel and this website.
Practicing a variety of sports, including cycling, soccer, running, volleyball, table tennis, and swimming.
I like learning languages. Besides Spanish and English, Portuguese is another language I often use. As a child, I learned French and Mandarin Chinese too.