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\nA warm welcome! \n<\/h2>\n<\/div>
\nI have a special dream, just as we all have dreams. What is yours?
Mine is to become a doctor; I would like to find my place in Hungarian emergency care as an emergency physician. I am a fifth-year medical student, and I am asking for your help to complete medical school, but I believe I can also give you something in return (and this does not depend on your support, which does not necessarily have to be financial).\n<\/div>
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\nIntroduction\n<\/h3>
\nI am Gergely G\u00e1bor PAPP, a fifth-year medical student. I graduated from secondary school in 1995 in Esztergom, at the Temesv\u00e1ri Pelb\u00e1rt Franciscan Secondary School, better known as Franka. I live in P\u00e9cs with my wife, Emese. We have been married since 2001 and have four children.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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In 1999, I graduated from the joint English-language \"integrated engineer\" BSc program run by the former Kand\u00f3 K\u00e1lm\u00e1n and B\u00e1nki Don\u00e1t technical colleges and Nottingham Trent University. I then spent five years working as a social worker with children who had fallen through the cracks, mainly Roma children, in Budapest's eighth district. From autumn 2004, I worked as an engineer in Baranya, then in Austria because of the economic crisis, and later back home again until 2020.<\/p>\n

In 2015, I began volunteer emergency medical technician training with the Red Cross in Austria, which I completed with excellent marks. By the end of 2019, I had spent more than 2,000 hours on duty, mostly at night. This allowed me to take part in the care of 250-300 patients: from transporting a woman in labor to hyperventilation, from febrile seizures to fainting, from the self-harm of a mentally ill patient with a knife in the abdomen to heart attacks.<\/p>\n

Our youngest child, Soma, was born in 2016 while we were still in Austria. Sadly, he arrived as an infant born at 28 weeks' gestation, weighing 1,372 g, almost three months earlier than expected. My wife moved into the hospital with him for many long weeks. Those of us who remained at home experienced, day after day, the warmth, competence, kindness, patience, and love of the nurses and doctors caring for them at University Hospital Salzburg (SALK), and later at St. Joseph's Hospital in Braunau. Thank God, Soma grew up without any major complication, and this year, as a big boy, he is already in second grade at primary school.<\/p>\n

Influenced by our experiences in ambulance service and in the hospital with a premature infant, I thought that perhaps my life would be more valuable if I could help others as a doctor. For my birthday, I received textbooks from my family, and two years later I took my secondary school-leaving exams again. This time in biology and physics, at advanced level, because that was what admission required. I was not sure whether I would be accepted, and even less sure how we would make a living if I started medical school. Studying was a joy in itself, and I felt that if God had planted this thought in my heart, He would surely provide everything needed for it. In the end, instead of the 423 points required for admission, I achieved 463 points, and thanks to the support of my family, friends, and many other good people, I can now be a fifth-year student.<\/p>\n

In 2025, I received support through the grant program of the Dr. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Batthy\u00e1ny-Strattmann Medical Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Career Cocktail, the podcast channel of the Career Office of the University of P\u00e9cs, also recorded a conversation with me. Listen here. (Year 2 #5 Career change and calling - the path from engineering to the medical vocation)<\/p>\n