Amina Zorlak is one of the Hastor Foundation’s numerous positive examples, as a scholarship holder who invests her knowledge and skills for the greater good.
She graduated high school from the First Bosniak Gymnasium in Sarajevo, and she was rewarded as the Pride of the Generation in 2015 based on her high school success. She decided to pursue higher education at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sarajevo. She points out that her choice of faculty was logical after attending the Department of Natural Sciences in high school, but it’s also a result of her great desire to focus her knowledge on a humane profession like medicine.
Despite the college workload, Amina didn’t set aside her numerous talents, and she participated at medical congresses all around Sarajevo, and even in Belgrade one time. She spends her free time playing the violin and the piano, and, besides playing these instruments actively, she’s also a novice guitar and accordion player. She also reads books and is currently learning Spanish.
She focuses a chunk of her free time to participate in the “Anamnesis” podcast, a short 20-minute show that analyses topics from the fields of medicine and dentistry. Amina has her own segment in the podcast named “History corner”, where, before talking with the guest, she outlines several basic facts about the topic that will be analyzed in the podcast. For example, Amina mentions in one of the episodes that orthodontics isn’t just a profession that encourages us to laugh whole-heartedly, but an art permeated with health care, esthetics, and it’s one of the most modern fields in medicine that’s climbing rapidly. This is how Amina, instead of reducing medical sciences to a mere formality, points out the importance of taking care of our health.
I’m very happy to have had the chance to participate in such a project and the fact that I will continue this engagement because it gave me a chance to develop my show host skills, which was my first love before medicine. I owe my strength to embark on such a project to the Hastor Foundation as well, where I was able to gain self-confidence through many months of volunteering. By reading stories and experiences from other members, the Foundation inspires me daily to become better and to keep improving in every field. It inspires me to escape tunnel vision and not have a single day where I don’t learn anything new, not necessarily in the field of medicine. My moto is Nulla dies sine linea! (Not a day without a line drawn!).
Amina Abaspahić
