To be able to understand the changes in human body during a disease process has drawn me to the profession of medicine. I believe this is thought that steered me to practice higher education in pathology. In order to practice in pathology, it requires understanding regarding every organ system, every kind of tumor and infection. Pathology provides us the insight into a patient's body at the gross and cellular level and actually enables us to identify the pathogenesis of the patient’s disease. Pathology is a scientific clinical knowledge and provides a broader scope in research. All these facets of pathology have inspired me to pursue a career in this specialty. While in the initial years of medical school, I truly enjoyed courses in physiology and pathology. Learning about the normal state and then structural alterations of cells, pathogenesis, and the consequences of changes were very fascinating. The slides under the microscope were difficult to understand but looked very pleasing, identical to an abstract art. With the help of my professors, I started to understand those slides and developed an interest in learning to diagnose them. While in my third year of medical school, my clinical clerkship in surgery …show more content…
and internal medicine, helped me realize the true gift of being a pathologist. These clerkships offered me a great opportunity to be involved in the clinical and pathological correlation. I admired my pathologists’ capability to work with clinicians from all specialities and to make prompt diagnoses. I was fascinated with the importance of Pathologist when I witnesses clinician waiting for biopsy reports to establish a course of treatment and surgeons waiting anxiously in the operating room for results of a frozen segment to decide the type and degree of surgical resection. My interest in research has also assisted me to choose a career in pathology. My interest in pathogenesis of colorectal cancer led me to my current placement at Howard University Cancer Center in Washington, DC, under the supervision of pathology professor and gastroenterology professor, Dr. Brim Hassan and Dr. Hassan Ashktorab. While there, I am gaining research experience to broaden my horizons and acquire new skill sets. Along with my professional growth, these skills will also help me to be an aid for program’s growth. Furthermore, I will be writing my Step 3 exam promptly to insure that there are no delays in my residency training. I believe I possess the abilities required to become prosperous in medicine and in life.
These abilities make me the person I am: vibrant person, an enthusiastic, and always on the move. Being a competitive player of cricket team since 2008, I continue to improve my leadership, team spirit, and sportsmanship. Working in the lab, I continue to improve my observation, critical thinking, problem solving, time management and writing skills. Attending medical school in abroad, completing clinical clerkships in various hospitals across US and Canada, and my volunteer work with many organizations, assisted me to learn to work with diverse personalities. It has also improved my communication skills and aided me nurture empathy, patience, and a willingness to
listen. In the past few years, my family and I went through family and financial problems. My father had to quit his job as he stayed in India for over four years to take care of my grandparents. Overtime, my grandparents’ health worsened and they passed away. This was very hard and emotional time for us and it has also affected my performance on my USMLE exams. During this period, I had to take two years off from my medical training to work full-time to pay for my expenses. However, my passion for medicine gave me the courage to continue to work hard and helped me to successfully pass my exams. This experience has given me the ability to absorb the pressure, be patient, and made me a better, stronger and wiser person than before. My career objective is to be a clinical pathologist, an independent researcher, and a teacher of students and residents. After residency, I hope to pursue additional training in surgical pathology subspecialty. I believe residency training in pathology is a place where I can begin to achieve my professional ambitions.
I came into this course with a lot of questions in regards to pathology, as well as patient care and how medical practitioners are affected emotionally by it. It was difficult hearing how patients are being diagnosed with cancer and even worse when they are told that they have a short time to live. I once heard in a hospital meeting, that an oncologist sees death every day and that nullifies the pain of losing a patient. I learned that this isn’t true. It is the emotional bond with a patient that helps medical practitioner value life and provide the best quality of life they
As a cancer clinic volunteer, the daughter of an oncologist, the friend of a breast cancer survivor, and a biological enthusiast, I find the medical field of cancer and its impacts on health fascinating. The human body is so complex, yet, so fragile at the same time and I hope that through this exploration, I will witness how mathematics plays a role in science and more specifically physiology.
When I think about the moments leading up to my diagnosis I remember feeling weak, confused, shaky and sleepy. I did not notice that I had began sleeping throughout the day. My body was craving soft drinks like soda and juice but not food. Days would go by and I eventually fell into a deep slumber that I found myself only waking up from to use the bathroom. I knew something was wrong and that if I did not get to a hospital it would get worse. Nothing could have prepared me for the life changing diagnosis I would receive.
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
One fateful day at the end of June in 1998 when I was spending some time at home; my mother came to me with the bad news: my parent's best friend, Tommy, had been diagnosed with brain cancer. He had been sick for some time and we all had anxiously been awaiting a prognosis. But none of us were ready for the bumpy roads that lay ahead: testing, surgery, chemotherapy, nausea, headaches, and fatigue. Even loud music would induce vomiting. He just felt all around lousy.
Though our knowledge of the human body has developed drastically, there will always be more to learn, especially in the field of pathology. In addition to education, this procedure is also used to improve the quality of care that healthcare workers provide for their patients, especially in terms of undetermined diagnoses. Post mortem examinations can help to better identify pathologies, and allow a “hands on” approach that cannot be obtained readily.
I found rugby to be an amazing experience as it showed me the importance of teamwork and dedication. It gave me the opportunity to travel and meet a lot of new people. This has helped me to socialise with people more easily allowing me to form strong relationships that mutually help others and myself. I have always enjoyed and participated in general water sports activities such as sailing and recently, paddle boarding. I enjoy self-improvement anywhere it can be applied, this includes fitness. Recently I have joined the gym in order to keep myself fit. I have a strong passion for music and was in a band for two years. If I were to evaluate which qualities are the most influential that I have learnt from my hobbies and social activities they would have to be commitment, emotional stability, a strong initiative, good organisation skills and strong communication
Shadowing in autopsies satisfied my early high school curiosity in that I was able to understand the anatomy of the human body. Knowing the appearance of a normal organ helped me to recognize when an organ was abnormal whether that was through weight or appearance. I have learned that the human body encapsulates teachable knowledge and evidence that leads to the diagnosing of disease and corresponding treatment. My time spent shadowing in autopsies confirmed my interest in learning more about the field of medicine and the doctor’s role in direct patient care. I have shadowed Dr. Simmons, a cardiology specialist and Dr. Fitzhugh at the NIH sickle cell department. In cardiology, I witnessed the physician’s role in patient education regarding
During the 15th century, scientists started grasping a better understanding of the human body. Giovanni Morgangi was the first to perform autopsies on patients to relate to their illnesses along with the finding of cancer after death. This laid the foundation of scientific oncology, the study of cancer. Over the years, scientists have realized that the disease they thought they distinguished was very dissimilar to the diseases they currently study today. There are over 200 types of cancer in the world today. Scientists continue to study every day to be able to come closer to finding a cure finding for this awful disease.
In order to determine whether or not clinical medicine was the right career for me, I started shadowing Dr. Richard Turner in the ER. Through my experiences with him, I learned that medicine is a problem solving process. As I watched, he would take a patient's history and try to piece together the correct diagnosis by deciding which scenarios were more likely than others. I was attracted by the dynamic nature of each patient's diagnosis and the necessity for an open mind. My hobby of flying has taught me to look at everything in life with a new perspective and to assess the situation from as many angles as possible. Watching Dr. Turner has confirmed my perception of a medical career and the nature of the work involved. Since I love puzzles and problems, the problem solving aspect also increased my desire to become a physician.
My passion for a career in Clinical laboratory science stems from a key experience with a li-censed Clinical laboratory scientist. On one day in the church , I was in dire need of help finding a job that can help me study medical in the future. For the first time I encountered professional-ism, knowledge, and humanity all at once. And this wasn’t a one-off experience. Each time I re-turned to the church, the exact same thing occurred: The Clinical laboratory scientist never seized to take the opportunity to encourage and help me knows better about the great work of Clinical laboratory scientists. From that moment, I decided to do my master in that field.
Medical laboratory technologists, also known as histotechnologists, work in a laboratory environment diagnosing diseases, doing research, or instructing others. Histotechnologists detect tissue abnormalities and treatments for the diseases causing the abnormalities, a vital role in the allied health profession. Histotechnologists prepare very thin slices of human, animal, or plant tissue in order to examine it using a microscope. This is considered one of the most important parts of the complicated process of medical investigation used to establish and confirm a diagnosis.
Histopathology and molecular pathology both fall within the medical science branch of pathology where the primary concern is the examination of tissues, body fluids, and organs to aid in the diagnosis of diseases.
Throughout my life, my strengths and weaknesses tend to gain more clarity, as I grow older. When I was younger, I did not focus too much on this part of myself. I was interested in child things. I must now use my strengths to improve my weaknesses to strengthen my faults. Several of my strengths are centered on my profession because the majority of my time is spent there. Some of my qualities are beneficial to different situations, while the other qualities hinder. Although we describe our strengths as positive attributes and our weaknesses as negative attributes, they make us who and what we are as individuals. Because of these qualities, each of us is unique in different ways. It is imp...
In my Learning team, my personal strength is having good people skills. I meet and get involved with new people everyday whether it be work or school related. I enjoy speaking, listening and giving input to my team members so that they are aware that they can count on me to participate as a team player in our Learning Team. Good people skills are very important in a group setting because of all the di...