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Prosper, I can take constructive advice. I have benefited from correction, mentorship and guidance throughout my education, and I remain willing to learn. However, your write-up makes confident claims about my work, motives and contributions without establishing the facts. Because you have addressed me publicly, I will clarify those points publicly. Your central argument, being that, academic ability should translate into something useful for others, is reasonable. I agree that excellent results alone do not establish everything about a person’s competence, character or eventual professional contribution. The problem begins when you move from that general observation to specific declarations that I have not helped others, have not shared how I learn, and have not built anything through which other students can benefit. Those are claims about my record. They require more than your impression of my timeline. Let me introduce you to some of the work you missed. 1. AUTHORSHIP AND LEARNING RESOURCES I authored Donye’s Destroying Anatomy, Volume 1. That involved taking knowledge acquired through my own study and organising it into a resource other students can learn from. It is a concrete example of the very thing you recommend: making academic experience useful beyond the person who earned the result. You can suggest ways to improve or expand that work. You cannot reasonably discuss my supposed failure to create learning resources while overlooking a resource I have already authored. 2. TEACHING I tutor Anatomy and Medical Microbiology. That means I spend time explaining concepts, answering questions and helping other students understand subjects in which I have earned distinctions. Teaching requires preparation, patience and the ability to communicate knowledge. It is work, and it is a contribution, whether or not every session appears on your timeline. 3. INTERNAL MEDICINE CRASH COURSES I have also started Internal Medicine crash courses on my YouTube channel, organising teaching around topics and units to help other students learn and revise. You suggested that I should create a platform through which people can benefit from my knowledge. Online teaching is already part of what I am doing. There is room to develop it further, as there is with any educational project. But something being capable of growth does not mean it does not exist. 4. MENTORSHIP I mentor junior colleagues and share academic guidance with students navigating medical school. The value of mentorship is not always captured by a public announcement. Sometimes it is a conversation, an explanation, a recommendation or helping someone approach a difficult stage of their training with greater clarity. I will not dismiss those interactions simply because they are less visible than a result post. 5. KNOWLEDGE SHARING THROUGH CONTENT I founded the DYK Instagram platform to share knowledge through content. Again, this is an example of deliberately communicating beyond my own examination preparation and immediate classroom. 6. PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL IMPACT I was selected as a Millennium Fellow in 2024. My fellowship project, The Onco-Aware Initiative, focused on cervical cancer awareness and prevention. My interests and contributions extend to community health as well as medical education. Helping other people pass examinations is one useful application of knowledge; health education and prevention are others. 7. ACADEMIC AND CAREER GUIDANCE I have received invitations to speak at academic orientation programmes and about pursuing cardiothoracic surgery. I take opportunities to share my experience seriously, while recognising that I am still learning and building my own career. Alongside those contributions, I am proud of the academic record I have worked for: • Fifteen As in fifteen subjects in my 2014 BECE. • Nine A1s in nine subjects in my 2017 WASSCE, emerging as the best WAEC candidate in Lagos State that year.

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