Meet Dr. Divyesh the 24-year-old “Chase” Telugu movie hero, physician, and USMLE instructor
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Divyesh graduated from Windsor University School of Medicine where he completed a 6-year M.D. medical program in 4 years, making him one of the youngest MD graduates in town. How did he do it? Answer: He took 3 semesters per year, worked very hard, and never took a break while finishing all USMLE exams. He passed and received the 99th percentile on all USMLE exams. He received the “Best Student Award” for basic sciences and graduated with a 4.0 GPA and the valedictorian award (nominated to the best student of the graduating class). While doing research at MD Anderson, UThealth, and Northwestern, he submitted 5 publications as the primary author to major medical journals and also helped start a major clinical trial.
He is one of the record youngest residency applicants this year and has recently matched at Michigan State University’s Internal Medicine program.
Divyesh has always kept his roots in Michigan as he went to Michigan’s top, and one of the country’s top high school: International Academy (IA)(Bloomfield Hills). Divyesh also has his own tutoring services as he trains candidates appearing for the USMLE exam. He has trained over 300 students with a very high success rate and the number keeps growing consistently. His website can be found here at: www.DivyeshMD.com
Divyesh has always kept his roots in Michigan as he went to Michigan’s top, and one of the country’s top high school: International Academy (IA)(Bloomfield Hills). Divyesh also has his own tutoring services as he trains candidates appearing for the USMLE exam. He has trained over 300 students with a very high success rate and the number keeps growing consistently. His website can be found here at: www.DivyeshMD.com
He is the lead actor in the feature Telugu film “Chase” filmed completely in Detroit. This movie was released on the big screen in April 2015 in over 50 theaters in India and 5 states in the US including AMC Southfield in Detroit. The link to the movie can be found here>>
He was able to fit in his acting schedule while still in medical school. Divyesh says his secret to success is his photographic memory and his self-motivating mindset. When he sets his goals, he is willing to give it everything to achieve them. During his free time, he spends time at the gym, which keeps him in shape for movies, and gives him a self-satisfactory feeling of getting better on a daily basis. Divyesh is currently preparing for future movies. His dominant mindset along with his healthy lifestyle has brought him to where he is today.
It seems that he gets his multi-tasking abilities from his family. His father, Mohan Reddy Nemakayala, is the director and producer of Telugu movie “Chase”, which he filmed while concurrently working as an SAP consultant as his main profession. His mother Padmavathi Nemakayala is a homemaker, who is always there, supporting all of his dreams. He also has a younger sister named Kirtana Nemakayala who he hopes follows the same footsteps to medicine. Divyesh is the first Doctor in his entire family. The family lives in Rochester, MI.
Divyesh advises aspiring medical students to work as hard as possible to achieve their goals. Admission into residency programs are getting more difficult every year and so applicants’ USMLE exam scores must be higher in order to match. He says parents have given our generation a huge opportunity to follow our dreams in whatever career one chooses. Divyesh credits his mentors, professors, and most importantly his family for his success.
Divyesh has included a paragraph from his bold personal statement, which got him into residency. He ties together his passion for acting and medicine very well:
“Lights, Camera, Action! These are an unusual choice of words to begin a statement expressing my desire to get into an internal medicine residency. Yet these words have been resonating in my memory from the time I was cast for the lead role in the Indian movie “Chase”. I did not consider the irony of the title then; it was only when I started chasing after the most ardent passions of my heart (residency) that it struck me in a very brutal manner. Vivid memories of what it took to be an actor and complete that film were projected onto the screen of my mind. It took countless hours of practice, persistence, patience, redundant movements, takes, and retakes just to complete a scene. I had one burning goal – to complete the movie – and that obliterated every obstacle in my way. This is reflective of my struggle in the journey towards finishing medical school. There was no epiphany that pushed me towards my goal; but instead, it was a series of conscious decisions that I made, which brought me to where I proudly stand. My decision to get into internal medicine is a culmination of three fronts: personal, professional, and philosophical.“
Miindia wishes Divyesh Reddy Nemakayala the best and looks forward to sharing more information about his successes in the future.
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