With both parents in the Navy, I was surrounded by a diverse, ever-changing populace for the majority of my life while we lived in Virginia Beach. My friends, classmates, and fellow city residents consisted of a myriad of different ethnicities, religions, and backgrounds. Being raised in such a diverse culture helped me foster an open mind and respect everyone. Additionally, growing up in a dual-military family I endured multiple moves and being separated from one of my parents for long periods of time. While troublesome, I feel this gave me a unique advantage. I have become self-reliant and I am more apt to take initiative than many of my peers. Furthermore, I learned to quickly adapt to my surroundings. My upbringing has overall led to me feeling confident interacting with a wide array of people with different backgrounds, cultures, and educational levels, which is a skill I will need as a medical student and as a …show more content…
practicing physician. However, my upbringing is not the only experience allowing me to contribute to the diversity of my medical school class.
Through my two years working as a medical scribe in a busy emergency department, I have had the honor of working with astounding physicians and have gleaned a vast amount of information from this experience to build upon in medical school and share with fellow classmates. Also through this work, I have interacted with patients from all walks of life and I have observed how exemplary physicians treat a diverse community of patients. More recently, I have been promoted to chief medical scribe where I have had the opportunity to improve my leadership, teamwork, communication, and time management skills. These experiences will benefit me throughout medical school as well as make me a strong team player. I will be able to manage problems with an open perspective, contribute my fair share, and foster a diverse assortment of ideas from others when working in a group, which will enable the attainment of the greatest possible
results. With my upbringing, personal characteristics, and experiences, I would be able to seamlessly transition into the next entering class at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. Furthermore, if selected to attend this fine medical school, I will work diligently to achieve not only my high standards, but also the college’s high expectations to become an astounding physician. I am hard-working, adaptable, level-headed, and passionate about achieving my goals, which are attributes needed to be a successful medical student as well as an excellent physician. I also have a strong desire to help others and give back to my community, which has been evidenced by my history of various volunteer activities. Not only do I want to help others, but I also want to provide my future patients with the best possible care. This desire will instill in me the drive to do my best while in medical school and to push myself through stressful and hard times. Simply, I want to be an osteopathic physician because it combines my love of science with real people interaction and provides an unlimited intellectual challenge. Through working as a medical scribe, I have witnessed the good of medicine as well as the realities of being a physician, which allows me to know that becoming a physician is the right career for me. However, through working as a medical scribe with an osteopathic physician, I have realized the advantages of pursuing an osteopathic profession. Over the last few months, I have had the opportunity to see first hand the differences between an allopathic and an osteopathic physician. The most important differences I have noticed is that the physician’s patient care is patient-centered, hands on, and uses a “whole person” approach. After observing these practice of medicine in action, I have realized that osteopathic medicine is a better choice for myself because it resonates well with what I already believe in. Overall, I will be happy and successful as an osteopathic physician.
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I began my college career unsure of the path ahead of me. I knew I had a passion for medicine, however, I did not know which direction I would take. With the expansive amount of options offered within the fields of science and medicine, it was difficult to narrow down exactly what direction I wanted to take. I gained some clarity the summer of my sophomore year when I stayed at a close friend’s home, whose father, a practicing Medical Physician, became somewhat of a mentor to me. The passionate way in which he discussed the practice of medicine led me to develop an interest in pursuing a career as a physician. He explained that a career in the medical field was about responsibility, the responsibility to work with all members of the healthcare team for the well-being of the patient as well as their family
Every person their own unique attitude and beliefs that will affect their understanding of diversity, equity and democracy due to the fact that everyone is brought up differently. Diversity means range of different things, where if a person is exposed to more experiences in life, their understanding of diversity is in a much wider range. For instance, being born in a multicultural country such as Canada rather than the opposite will have a larger influence in the way of their understanding of diversity of different cultures and races. Whereas, equity means the quality of being fair and impartial. Every person is born in a different environment and lives through many different experiences. For example, a person born in a low income family, in
Growing up in Florida, the prevalence of a diverse society has always been evident to me. While realizing at a young age how many differences exist in my hometown of Orlando, I eagerly wanted to become a part of each segment of my world. From a young age, my parents could tell that I had an interest in the international cultures in my life.
Diversity is all the ways of people being different, including individual, group, and cultural differences (Bucher, 2015). From this perspective, we could see that every individual is unique. Although, we are different as a person that does not mean that we have to make a distance between us, rather than to embrace ourselves in understanding each other, help each other, and work together. In order to have more understanding about diversity, we need to study and experience the differences such as cultures, ethnic groups, races, and other unique backgrounds. Here, at Murray State University (MSU), I am able to meet many people from different countries with diverse backgrounds and this situation helps me to learn more about diversity.
1.1a Diversity means a range of different aspects or variety in general, different people are individuals with own characteristics, ability, preferences, personal experiences, beliefs and values. All the above shapes who we are and our ways of living.
As cited by the National Institute of Health, “Culture is often described as the combination of a body of knowledge, a body of belief and a body of behavior. It involves a number of elements, including personal identification, language, thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions that are often specific to ethnic, racial, religious, geographic, or social groups” (NIH, n.d).
... tutoring, advising, and volunteer opportunities, I have developed a strong sense of leadership, confidence, and responsibility. A career in medicine will not only strengthen such attributes, but provide me with an ongoing opportunity to learn, not just from books, but also from patients; and to educate and serve those individuals as well. Though my journey began under dismal circumstances, I believe those experiences will specifically enable me to better understand quality of life issues in the under-served populations of my geographic region.
37). I believe that everyone has the potential to become an effective leader. Even though I have only been a nurse for about one year and a half, I have gained crucial experiences that enhanced my overall potential as a leader. When I was still an associate student, I demonstrated leadership qualities in the classroom and clinical settings. I was a senator in the Student Government Association (SGA) and an active member of the Louisiana Student Nurses Association (LSNA). Moreover, I utilized my creative-thinking skills to initiate and design pivotal projects in our school, which included a mentoring tool and clinical guide that conveniently fits in a pocket. Once I started my first work as a RN in a fast-paced medical-surgical unit, the fears and challenges of being a novice nurse overwhelmed me for a while. Nonetheless, I was eager and determined to learn new skills and techniques from my preceptor and fellow nurses. Not long after, I was already working on my own pace and managing my patients’ care effectively. Moreover, I showed initiative by undertaking small tasks in the unit like reminding my fellow staff nurses to complete the core measure check lists, making sure that all computer carts and desks are free of unnecessary supplies, organizing the assignment board, and collecting the nurses’ unit phones at the end of the shift. Although these are simple responsibilities, I believe that they require some degree of managerial and leadership skills. Furthermore, I exhibit my leadership potential in my everyday communication and interaction with patients, families, and other healthcare staff. I always advocate for my patients, even if it means having an awkward discussion with the attending doctor. Lastly, I intend to continually learn and hone my expertise, both clinical and leadership knowledge,
My medical school education and training has provided me with a strong base on which I aim to build an intellectual and critical thinking framework for a humble, well-rounded physician. I am excited to see myself as an intern in a few months, in a program that provides both, the opportunity to care for people as well as a challenge to utilize my skills in both an inpatient and outpatient setting under the tutelage of a faculty who love to teach. Additionally, I want to devote my strengths to the program and play my part to further improve the quality of care. I look forward to joining your program of Internal Medicine in the coming
Workplace diversity refers to the variety of differences between people in an organisation, Diversity comes down to acceptance, respect and understanding of one another in the workplace, even when you may disagree, you need to be understanding and try your best to relate to everyone and embrace their unique differences.
The act of dialogue is not only reserved for high profile diplomatic initiatives and media spot light, but a process owned by everyone all over the world, that have a right and need to be heard. Throughout the course, I was given scenarios that encouraged me to think critically about diversity and the privilege I have because of my various social identities. The scenarios were presented in the form of activities that allowed the class to have an open and honest discussion. I was taught the importance of respecting individual differences and discussing conflicting viewpoints to better understand ideologies outside of my own. Using the assigned reading, class activities, and discussion, I will convey my personal experience of learning about diversity in America.
The Unintended Consequences of Diversity Statements by Sonia Knag, Katherine DeCelles, Andras Tilcsik and Sora Jun While organizations are trying to address discrimination, they are emphasizing their organization's dedication to "equal opportunity" and that they are "diversity friendly" in hopes that it will increase the diversity of applicants. However, the effectiveness of those statements is not very high, in fact they can even cause backfire by making the organizations less likely to notice discrimination. With the worry that employers are racially biased, many racial minorities may be trying to avoid discrimination by concealing or downplaying racial cues on a job application such as “resume whitening”. This is when the candidate tries to maintain a relatively
During this time I also familiarised myself with the doctor’s routine, in particular noting the characteristics required for good practice such as; leadership, confidence, and integrity. I believe I have displayed these characteristics during my volunteering experiences, having being responsible for safeguarding and communicating patient’s concerns, and during my academic studies where I was responsible for organising group
The recent globalization phenomenon has been accompanied by the rise of diversity. Diversity is generally seen and argued as good and crucial in today’s world. As the general public often assumes the benefits of diversity, there is not much discussion on the thought that “is it possible that diversity is overrated?” Diversity can be seen in many different forms, it can be categorized into visible (looks) or invisible (ideas) diversity. Diversity should be valued but it becomes a problem if we are overly emphasizing on it as a society.