Bio
Nneoma Okonkwo is from Lagos, Nigeria. She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor of science degree in biological engineering and minors in French and applied international studies. She has always had a strong interest in tutoring and mentoring and takes advantage of opportunities to engage in both whenever possible, including volunteering at educational summer camps and after-school programs, peer-mentoring in high school and college, working as a biology teaching assistant in college, and spending her gap year between college and medical school as an English teaching assistant in France. In addition, she was a peer-tutor and mentor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is now an emergency medicine PGY-1 intern at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at MGH/Brigham.
Education
Undergraduate: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency: Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency
Scores
USMLE Step 1: 253
USMLE Step 2: 271
Fun Fact
Nneoma loves traveling and recently got into scuba diving.
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