My mom always used to say,” Look at the person as a whole to understand the condition.” Even though it made little sense to me as a child, I learned the concept when I was doing my Internal medicine rotation. The passion of knowing that I could improve a person’s quality of life drew me into pursuing medicine. The multitude of different organ systems that one covers while practicing medicine fascinated me to delve into a field that encompasses them all - Internal Medicine. In addition, I enjoyed the challenges that Internal Medicine would provide me with its diversity. Altogether, Internal Medicine was the amalgam of everything I learned in my medical practice and decided to pursue my residency. Moreover, I enjoyed the challenge of analyzing multi-organ system involving cases, where I had to go beyond the scope of common rationale. A 22-year old female patient came with generalized seizures and progressive paralysis. Without a diagnosis, the case was a baffling mystery. With a more probing history, I noticed the recurring episodes of abdominal pain and photosensitivity. This was an assessment that was easily missed in her earlier episodes. The family was frustrated as this was her third episode without …show more content…
Involving in a national level campaign such as Pulse Polio Campaigns, in charge of arranging and dispensing the vaccines helped to reach a larger population. Coordinating and working as a team with different healthcare people helped to deliver a comprehensive care for my patients. Being the team leader for the non-profit charity providing financial help with free medications, and food helped me understand my patients beyond just the medical diagnosis, but the complex web of multiple factors in their overall health. I hope to use my experiences to continue working with community into my residency and also in my
My father, two paternal uncles, two maternal uncles, five cousins, and two cousin’s husbands. Three cousins who are in medical school along my sister who is on the premed track. These are the statistics behind my claim of being from a family of physicians. Importantly, these statistics do not hold much importance in my choosing of becoming a family medicine physician. In my last year of medical school, evaluating my personal experiences with my family, my country of origin, and future opportunities, I decided that family medicine was the field I wanted to be a part of.
The longer I work in healthcare, the more it stands out to me as an especially compelling and rewarding field. I have enjoyed great personal and professional development as a result of my immersion in the modern medical system. As a rehabilitation technician for Loyola University Medical Center, the work I do providing patient care fills me with satisfaction and purpose. This experience has inspired me to dedicate my life to a career in medicine. I am committed to serving all people and contributing to the medical community as a practitioner, advocate, and leader.
After over 15 years of working as a CNA and Caregiver, I decided that I wanted to continue my education in the medical field. In 2013 I took the first step towards gaining a better future with more experience as a medical professional. I enrolled into a Medical Assistant program at IBMC college of Longmont. It has been a long road and I am almost to the finish line having gained essential skills needed to move further into my career. It has been a grueling and eye opening experience for me being an adult learner returning back to school at 33 years of age. I persevered through these pass two years with courage and determination, never letting my short comings get the best of me. As I approach the end of my journey with IBMC I have realized that I have a passion for helping those persons who
In applying for residency, I am pursuing my ultimate goal of becoming an Internal Medicine physician. I firmly believe that I have the character, experience, and attributes necessary to excel in a residency program. As a first-generation American and first in my family to obtain a higher education, I have always endeavored to overcome any challenge that presents itself and I am not satisfied until what I set out to accomplish has exceeded beyond my initial expectations. I possess a great deal of intellectual curiosity and the disparity between my Economics and Chemistry degrees shows a direct reflection of this. This innate curiosity and drive to understand the mechanism of disease led me initially to Internal Medicine.
Healthcare administration is a field that is often overlooked, but is essentially the beating heart of any healthcare organization. With more and more hospital, and clinics, and other healthcare organizations popping up everywhere there is a need for people like me to manage the day-to-day operations. I am choosing to apply to this program because I want to study how the U.S. healthcare system operates. I want to learn the essential skills of operating a healthcare facility such as managing a budget, reducing healthcare costs, analyzing the efficiency of an organization and proposing ways to improve it. This program is going to give me the necessary education and skills so I can carry out my goal of being a healthcare administrator.
Internal Medicine has always been my number one choice for residency. It offers constant intellectual challenges, imparts a vast ocean of medical knowledge and ultimately establishes a strong relationship with the patient. The vast diversity of challenging clinical conditions, degree of illness, medical procedures, continual advances in treatment and the ability to cure diseases is what appeals me the most .
The topic of medicine and medical advances always have been a great interest to me. Growing up, I have always been interested in the sciences. Throughout schooling, I found myself to thoroughly enjoy my science and math classes, primarily lab days in science as the process of experimentation was very interesting. Learning the material was so fascinating, as the methods of problem-solving and the abstract conceptual pieces of both subjects were challenging yet captivating. Due to such an interest, I found corresponding clubs that I could join that gave me the opportunity to compete with such information, such as Science Olympiad and Math League.
Pursuing higher education in healthcare is what I have always desired. I believe that healthcare is a field for people who deeply care about the greater good for all human kind. However, after taking various courses in the Public Health major, I have decided to venture in a different direction. Yearning for something more towards the administrative and technical side has been a focal point in my collegiate career. When I discovered Health Informatics and Information Management (HIHIM), I’ve come to the conclusion that this is the perfect path moving forward.
Personal Statement My attraction to the medical field came naturally because of my early exposure to the hospital. I remember clearly accompanying my nana to her doctor visits and the trips we took to the in-hospital pharmacy. Something about being in the hospital excited me, I just loved the hospital. The older I became, the more intrigued I'd become about one day working in a hospital.
“Hold my hand, Raja”, she used to tell me, calling me a king even though I was barely an adult. My grandmother or a-gee, as I called her in my mother tongue, always requested that I hold her hand when it was time for her daily insulin shots. She would always ask for me to give her the shots even though she knew how to take it herself and everyone at home were capable too. I felt awful when she winced in pain as I gave her the shot, day in and day out. I kept reminding her (and myself) that although it was a painful ordeal it was necessary to keep her healthy. As a child, I always wondered what was wrong with her, why she was having to take such painful shots, and most importantly what were in those shots that treated her diabetes. I believe that this was the beginning of my interest, which years later, would lead me to pursue Medicine as my career.
Having seen in the media, that engineers have produced a device that has the ability to test human tissue for cancerous cells during surgery in ten seconds, without the need of a histologist; I was immediately fascinated. This sparked a great interest and led me to find a degree course that allows you to pursue a career in this field, Medical Engineering. Having seen first-hand, the technology used in a hospital laboratory; this has given me a great insight as to what working in a laboratory entails and the skills that are required.
From a young age, I was drawn to the healthcare field, not because the amount of money doctors, nurses and other health professionals made, but because of the dedication and contentment I saw on their faces helping someone in need. Growing up everyone wanted to become a doctor or a nurse and as a little child being a doctor or a nurse was a profession many parents wanted their child to pursue as a career. Needless to say, I fell into that category because I had high hopes that one day I will become a nurse. However, that dream came to a halt.
During my parents’ quest for answers, I have been shuffled in and out of the greatest clinical and research hospitals in the country, as well as some of the worst. I have seen oncologists, hematologists, endocrinologists, surgeons, orthopedists, interventional radiologists, pulmonologists, dermatologists, nutritionists, integrative medicine specialists, homeopathic doctors, and one spiritual healer from India. I have been in a clinical trial, a lymphatic imaging study, and had one of my ribs and some lymphatic fluid removed for research. These experiences were where I started to gain perspective.
I pleased to apply to the PharmD program as the program is one area that corresponds to my career dreams. Being part of this program gives one the opportunity to gain an excellent experience in working and collaborating with various health care providers in the ward. But more importantly, it facilitates a practical environment in dealing more closely with patients. Hence, it helps to provide the ultimate health care services to patients. Also, it permits me to carry on gaining different knowledge, skills, and values in addition to those I have already developed during my undergraduate studies. My interest in being a clinical pharmacist was first aroused during my SPEP rotation in the hospital setting where I was really impressed with the role of clinical pharmacists who provide a consistent process of patient care with healthcare teams to maintain the appropriateness, effectiveness and safety of the medication use. Unlike a pharmacist, a clinical pharmacist has a more diversified responsibilities and closeness to direct patient care. Moreover, provides
Health Occupation Students of America was something that was not available at my school until recently. It helped me to understand the medical field more than I had before and my position as Vice President helped me to work on my