​As part of its 60th-anniversary celebrations, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is introducing 60 future healthcare professionals who are currently in their first year. Meet Dylan Barnard.

Dylan Barnard likes golf, New Zealand and Prof Willie Pienaar. He believes ethical conduct is a doctor’s biggest challenge, and in ten years’ time he sees himself savings lives, with a pretty wife at his side.

Barnard is currently a first-year MB,ChB student at Stellenbosch University (SU). He’s following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather who both also obtained their MB,ChB degrees at SU.

“It’s a profession that changes continuously and brings with it new challenges. I never had a second option,” he says.

Last year, Barnard matriculated from Outeniqua High School in George with seven distinctions and also earned national colours in swimming and two camp.

Though Barnard believes that good work comes a result of the amount of hours you spend on something, he doesn’t take life too seriously. “I have a sense of humour.”Quick questions:

• Dream job? “To be a well-known surgeon.”
• What would you do with R5 million? “Pay off my studies and invest the rest.”
• And with R50? “Buy a tramezzini from the TSS.”
• Favourite music artist? “Ed Sheeran and James Bay.”
• Who according to you is successful, and why? “My dad. He’s happy with his life and passes on a good value system to his children.”