Leyla Huseynova

Leyla Huseynova is a senior medical student, 22 years old from Baku, Azerbaijan. Currently a member of Youth Ambassador program of National Assembly of Youth Organisations of the Republic Azerbaijan.

In everyday life, Leyla is a monitor of her group at university and during 6 years of educations has always got A score from every exam. On April 2018 Leyla attended F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix as Medical Marshall. Gained the German Academic Exchange Service scholarship for Summerschool on Medical Communication Skills and spent 1 month in Berlin (July 2018). 3 years in a row Leyla has spent 1 month abroad as an intern for improving medical skills (2018 - Homburg, Germany; 2017 – Lübeck, Germany; 2016 - Istanbul, Turkey). Leyla is the captain of a team playing intellectual games («What? Where? When?», «Brain Ring» and other quizzes, since 2014. The team she led won few cups and championships in this field. Finished high school with a gold medal of excellence.

After finishing mentorship program Leyla graduated from Medical University and let the new chapter of her life begin. She moved to Germany and is currently working as a physician in internal medicine. She has another 5 years to finish her qualification and is very excited about upcoming years. Leyla now feels that she is doing what she is supposed to do and that she finally found her own path. She quotes “the mentorship program made me more confident and I am very thankful to Mrs. Umar for all her support”.

Leyla’s mentor is Maria Umar.

Note: Leyla graduated from the mentoring programme in 2019 and she was 22 at the time.