Health Care Personal Statement

I envision the next ten years to be a time of intense personal growth. I will be building upon my strengths and improving my weaknesses. I hope to be fulfilling my goals and crossing things off of my bucket list. I hope to have the financial security to be able to help my mother retire, and help my younger brother to finish graduate school. I hope to be involved within my community, whether through volunteer work or a community-based organization. As for my career, I see myself working as a primary care physician. I am drawn to the long-term comprehensive care aspect of Internal Medicine and the opportunity to work with a diverse patient population in a variety of settings. This role aligns with my personal values in regards to health maintenance.

My passion for medicine continues to grow with each patient that I’ve had the privilege of caring for through shadowing, volunteering and my job as a CNA. Being my grandma’s translator has inspired me to pursue a career as a physician assistant, and beyond becoming a physician assistant, I aspire to practice in underserved populations so that everyone has an equal opportunity to access the health care they need.

Personal health and wellness are important factors towards life because without health, our quality of life would suffer greatly. There are many factors that contribute to health and wellness; some can be managed, but many are out of our control. Below are four main topic that caught my attention throughout the course.

For the very first time in my life, I had executed a series of behavior changes in order to lose fifteen pounds by this semester. I am pleased and more than grateful to see that my customized plan is successful, and took effect in different aspects of my well-being. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become”, I believe this quote by Carl Jung encapsulated why my health improvement plan would work – determination incorporated into a personalized plan. Hereinafter, I would like to discuss in details what and why had my behavior changes improved both my short-term and long-term health.

The advent of the Electronic Health Record is ushering in a new era in advanced healthcare. The next 20 years will be an exciting time to be involved in health care as a Health Information Manager. Analyzing the myriad of health information which could reveal astonishing medical breakthroughs excites my imagination. I see the perfect pathway for my future. I am on track to graduate with Honors from Portland Community College’s Health Information Management Program in June 2016.

Personal Statement I was drawn to the medical field due to my exposure to health implications faced by mother and myself. During my senior year at Montgomery College I diagnosed with thyroid disorder which led to hyperthyroidism. As a care giver for my mother who suffered from dementia my feeling was to build and maintain outstanding health care services which began to form. The affordability and quality of health care that my mother and I have received is something that I have always taken for granted as every citizen should have right to access to the highest standard of physical and mental health. My goal is to create an important contribution to the health of people in my community through efficient management and delivery of health care services.

Healthcare is one of the largest growing fields with increasing demands every day. In the past, healthcare was thought to be a work force of doctors, nurses and other medical staff but it has evolved into a large industry with a need for managers and administration. This management and administration has brought a new skillset to the field that strongly interests me. I spent the first two years of my undergraduate education in pharmacy school but through my many job shadows I fell in love with the business side of the health industry. I became fascinated by healthcare administration because of the potential opportunities such as: the ability to combine my talents of leadership and organization with my passion of health; the capacity to analyze and predict future trends to help my organization stay ahead therefore becoming a leader in industry; and the capability to understand medical professionals and their skills to lead and direct them in ways that will create a super-team.

As a student aspiring to pursue a medical career, I knew it was imperative to attain a firsthand experience in a medical setting. Therefore, my experience volunteering at the Volunteer Healthcare Clinic, or VHC, was profoundly significant as it allowed me to learn how the profession was in practice, which strengthen my desire to become a doctor. This experience, engaging with patients and physicians, exposed me to a different side of medicine through which I learned the crucial role of interpersonal communication; and, it also led me to discover a new aspect of medicine that captured my interest and motivated me to seek a profession within this field of study.

As a health care provider, it is extremely important to be aware of different resources that can be used to help you provide the highest quality of care to each patient. In this paper, I will touch on several websites that discuss different topics of maternal, infant, and child health. Many of these websites include educational information that can be passed on to women of child bearing age, those who are expecting, and those caring for infants.

I am passionate about what it means to enjoy holistic health and wellness on both a personal and global scale. This focus seeks to find similarities that unify all people, and a liberal education has given me the skills to further seek this unification. I engage in the diversity that surrounds me on campus and remain conscious of the injustices in our society that have withstood generations and culture shifts. By understanding health and wellness across the world, I also recognize that all humans are connected by the same foundational problems and that there is value in understanding holistic health through the viewpoint of other cultures. I aspire to delve deeper into how culture impacts the health of a group of people, including their socio-economic standing, available food sources in a demographic area, as well as the safety of the food being provided.

My interest in Public Health materialized after working as an EMT in Manhattan. I have grown accustomed to individual-centric care, as my immediate responsibility must be to my single patient. After just a single summer in a high call volume setting, during which I treated and transported many hundreds of patients, I began to notice patterns of illness. Most notably, I was shocked by the degree to which socioeconomic standing affected the treatment of chronic illness and mental health. When an individual has to rely on emergency services to handle an asthma attack or a psychiatric incident, it represents a failure of the health care system.

I am currently the Clinic Administrator for a small clinic. My responsibilities include Patient Flow, Records Management, HIPPA Officer, Compliance Officer, Bookkeeping, Human Resources, Payroll, Purchasing Manager, and Information Technology.

. Soon, I realized that family medicine was the specialty that fulfills my passion for providing integrated/comprehensive and continuing care, both preventive and therapeutic for all patients in different stages of their lives from prenatal to end of life and not just at a certain point or a particular time. It would allow me to fulfill my interest in pediatrics and at the same time still able to handle other aspects of medicine and patient populations. My desire to offer preventive care to my patients and participate in retarding and preventing many diseases is another factor that enhanced my passion to family medicine. I believe as a doctor, my job is not just to treat diseases but also to help people live healthier life and preserve their

I’m interested in the medical field; cardiology and/or a General GP practitioner. A cardiologist is a doctor with special training in the act of finding, treating as well as preventing diseases associated with the heart and or blood vessels. A GP is a general practitioner who does not specialise in a particular area in medicine. General Practitioners provide routine health care and assessment of illnesses and injuries.

My passion for nursing was fuelled by the tragedy in my life. Having helplessly watched my mother pass away, after being diagnosed with malaria, which showed me how communication works towards patients, staff and developing relationships with them performs a big part in nursing and that made me determined to help others. My own diagnosis with tuberculosis at a young age has helped me to experience first-hand the effects that good nursing can have. Likewise, ever since my mom passed away I have taken an active role in my little sister life and took care of her from an early age has also taught me responsibilities, compromise and that has been a great experience for me to focus on. At university, I look forward to learning more about how the human body works and how it gets treated when it comes damaged. I prefer a child nursing because I adore children and believe children