Syeda Sadia Farzana is originally from Dhaka, Bangladesh.
An international medical graduate, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in medicine and bachelor’s in surgery (MBBS), a Master of Public Health in maternal and child health as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Management from the University of Otago.
She is a fellow of the Australian Leadership Award (Griffith University) and has completed a fellowship in general practice. In addition, Sadia has been accepted to complete the Doctorate degree in Professional Practice at Otago Polytechnic. The passionate teacher has extensive experience in the healthcare sector along with teaching at university level including at the University of Otago.
Sadia has vast experience as a clinician with a great deal of clinical knowledge and is a researcher for various publications. Sadia is also an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant, practising in New Zealand. Her journey started as a lecturer at the College of General Practitioners. She then continued to teach for the medical school at the University of Otago, Dunedin. She also worked as a Healthcare Programme and clinical lecturer for Kauri Academy International, Christchurch. In 2020, Sadia joined Future Skills Academy to teach Health and Wellbeing.
“My students are my strength,” she says. “Their achievement and success make me the happiest and inspire me the most. To me, the learners should be taught with the philosophy, ‘knowledge is power, and sharing is caring.’”
As a mentor, she says you need patience, dedication, sincerity, and regularity to achieve your goals.
“Also, I strongly believe that every learner is unique and has been gifted with unique qualities by God where age is just a number and cannot be a barrier to further studies. All they need is the proper guidance, support, mentoring from the teacher, and a strong commitment to be successful in their learning journey. Only then can the learners achieve their goals with success.”
