MR. KENNETH VAUGHAN

Very few people are blessed with the gift of prescience showing awareness of and preparation for the future It would be correct and most fitting to ascribe this gift to Kenneth Vaughan who for as long as he could remember had always wanted to be a doctor

So unlike so many others who wanted to but failed to do anything to achieve their goal, he fed this passion for what he felt was his calling and prepared himself every step of the way to fulfill his dream This sense of purpose may also have been influenced and encouraged by his beloved older sister’s dream of also entering the medical profession she wanted to and just like her little brother achieved her goal and became a nurse

A truly interesting and heartwarming backstory to someone who single-mindedly planned his path in medicine Having graduated medical school in 1982, the newly minted doctor did his internship in the Bahamas, returning to Jamaica having decided that surgery was his preferred specialty His exposure to several surgical disciplines at UWI, Mona - general surgery, ENT, and orthopedics, at the end of his stint as a senior house officer doing orthopedics, coupled with the influence of Dr Winston Chutkan, Consultant Orthopedic surgeon, his interest in the field increased He enthusiastically decided that orthopedics would be his preferred subspecialty, and the rest as they would say is history

Having completed the DM Ortho Programme in 1984, off he went to England for further formal training, bagging a Commonwealth Scholarship for a year going on to garner invaluable training and experience at several institutions

Mr Vaughan remarked that his exposure to learning and surgical skills was exceptional during the time he spent in the United Kingdom Upon completion of the Master of Surgery in Orthopedics from the University of Liverpool, and his return to Jamaica, Kenneth Vaughan was appointed Lecturer at the University of the West Indies