Ahmer Azhar Karimuddin, FRCSC

Assalam Alaikum and Hello to all

Its been a long time coming, and after 13 years
of post-secondary education, 10 years of medical
education, its finally done.  Today, at 9:30 AM, I
found out that I have passed my fellowship exams
and am now a Fellow of the Royal College of
Physicians & Surgeons of Canada in General Surgery.

I appreciate all of you, who over the past many years
have put up with an absent or detached friend,
colleague and family member, as many things over
the past ten years have been set aside so I could
achieve this goal.  To my friends, thank you for
your understanding and all your kind wishes and
prayers.  To my colleagues, thank you for the many
years of intellectual and moral support through out
the residency, because all of you, in your own way,
were part of this process for me.  To my teachers,
you are all my role models, and the surgeon I will
become over the next many years, will in every
way be a reflection of your skills and knowledge.  I
thank you all for your extraordinary patience with me
over the past many years, as you honed me into
the physician I am today, and the physician I will
become.

It is to my family that I owe the most gratitude.  Firstly,
I thank my mother and father, who always pushed me to do
my best and to strive for excellence.  Their sacrifices
and vision, above all else has bought me to the point
where I am today.  My father has always pushed me
to dream the highest dream, and then refuse to settle
for anything else.  Thank you Papa for all your efforts,
sacrifices, support and refusing to let me ever choose
the easier road.  This is for you.  And Azfar and Sahar
have put up with an absent/detached sibling for way too long. 
Bhaijan is back in the house :)

Faiza, my wife, has had to put up with a lot.  Two kids,
100 hour work weeks, and then even when I was home,
my head buried in books and journals and deep into the
computer.  She has never been anything but understanding
and supportive, and truly over the past year has never
complained.  Thank you Faiza for all of your help and
understanding in letting me achieve my goals.

Above all, all thanks and gratitude is to Allah.  Truly He is
a merciful God, and no one can achieve anything without
His Divine Grace.  Truly, the most thankful of His servants
does not have the capacity to thank Him enough and in
an appropriate manner.

Thanks once again to all of you.  I hope you will take a moment
out of your busy days to wish my family and I well.

Your student, friend, brother and son:

Ahmer
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Ahmer Azhar Karimuddin, BSc, MD, MC Ed(c)
PGY 5, General Surgery
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK
Chief Negotiator, PAIRS, www.usask.ca/pairs
http://ahmerazhar.blogspot.com/