Muhammad Amir Asad Siddiqui

I was a physician in my country of origin, and I immigrated to the United States in 2016. I was working as a medical assistant at a clinic in New York, and I was considering becoming a registered nurse because I thought that I could do more to help my patients. FIU acknowledged the degrees from foreign-educated physicians, and they were exempting me from certain prerequisites. I decided to move from New York to Florida and go to FIU Nursing. I loved the diversity of my cohort; it was a very interesting mix of students. Half of the class were foreign-educated physicians, and the other half of the class were not. Since most of my classmates were immigrants, we could understand each other. When I learned about different cultures, I grew as a person, and my perspective changed. I liked that FIU was a big college, and I appreciated meeting a lot of people. The most important thing that FIU taught me was to respect each other. All of my professors were great, and everybody emphasized empathy. Empathy was the most important thing at FIU Nursing. I'm very glad that I had such wonderful instructors at FIU Nursing, who really guided me in each and every class.