Humanistic Approach To Medicine

I have learned to utilize my feelings of powerlessness as fuel to nurture my passion for helping people. I want to acquire the knowledge and skills to improve the health of patients, as well as to establish a relationship that expands beyond the scope of physical care. I am confident in my abilities to surpass your program’s expectations and grow to become a competent physician assistant. Whether it is in Vietnam or in another foreign land, it is with absolute certainty that I will continue to assist and care for

Pursing a career as a medical doctor is an opportunity for me to mentor youth in underserved populations. As a child, I was raised in the low income, urban community of Roxbury, MA. Although not as notorious today, the neighborhood had garnered negative attention for its high crime rates. My mother emigrated from Haiti and raised me as a single parent. Due to our financial circumstance, Roxbury became our permanent residence. I have always felt there was something lacking in Roxbury in comparison to other towns I visited. My teenage years were largely spent in the suburban town of Stoneham where I attended high school. There was a literal difference in air quality and a psychology contrast in future prospects. While native students of

Apart from her academic accomplishments, Dr. Ochoa has dedicated her life to the service of others through medicine and mentorship. “I’ve known since I could remember that I wanted a career with the purpose of helping others. I have this burning passion for service work and I’m extremely lucky to be able to combine it with my love for medicine and education.” When away from the hospital, Dr. Ochoa spends her time mentoring minority and low-income students along with her husband and fellow HSF alum, Mauricio Segovia. Also, wanting to give back to her Latino community, Dr. Ochoa donates to scholarship organizations such as HSF and the New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundation Scholarship.

I would be honored to enroll at the WMU homer Stryker M.D School of Medicine because of the school’s dedication to educating physicians through community outreach and commitment to lifelong learning. After volunteering for the past five years at the C.A.R.E. Clinic for the uninsured, I understand the need to serve uninsured Americans. Therefore, I want my medical school experience to incorporate opportunities to serve this population at locations such as the Family Health Center. In addition, the community health rotation would allow me to continue my commitment to the under and uninsured

This program will help to bring healthcare education services closer to the people in my community. Personally, I encountered many challenges in my childhood due to poor health care services in the community. The idea of having access to a good healthcare provider was unheard of in the Latino circle because they were unreachable and expensive. Secondly, affordability of the healthcare due to high costs of having health insurance was also popular among the Latino community. For those who could access medical facilities, the challenge was related to the health insurances did not cover all their needs. These challenges were too pronounced. They influence my desire to enroll in this program because I seek to change the situation back at home. Through

The humanistic approach is a person-centred approach which depends on trust between the patient and care giver. It is useful because it is non-intrusive and it gives people a choice to change their life. It is also used in lots of situations, this shows it is used often. However, it ignores people’s behaviour and is short term so this can affect the care given as the carer won’t keep an eye on the behaviour which is very important to observe when providing care.

In a lot of events, to understand them and make a decision whether the situation is right or wrong, one has to look at each individual. Not everyone thinks a like nor share the same virtues and ethics. According to the research and medicine collide in Haiti there are three points of view ill come across. First will be a Utilitarian guiding me about the ethics in this event, then there’s a Kantian helping, and finally ill speak upon this event to depict if there ethics involved.

Growing up in a refugee settlement and later in a low-income immigrant family with limited access to healthcare, I understand the importance of addressing the socioeconomic disparities in health. Whether it is organizing workshops on hygiene for Tibetan refugees in rural India or providing HIV testing and counseling to the local Asian LGBT community in the Twin Cities, I am driven to improve the health of vulnerable populations. In addition to the excellent medical education and early clinical exposure, what really draws me to Geisel School of Medicine is the Urban Health Scholars Program (UHS). As an Urban Health scholar, I look forward to exploring the intersection of race, refugee or immigrant status, LGBT identity and health. Given my strong

Through these volunteering efforts alongside medically underserved individuals I gained experience as well as a better sense of cultural competence and compassion that has gradually helped me learn the capacity to understand other people’s experiences and sufferings in a way I never had before. Furthermore, by specifically working in family and free health clinics, I have had the opportunity to gain perspective to the present health disparities of minorities and socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals. I have witnessed how a lack of insurance, monetary income, or health education can affect one’s decision to attain primary health care. Seeing their medically related hardships increase has only challenged me to contribute my unwavering efforts to pursue the Biomedical Sciences MS degree and become a compassionate, culturally competent, and respectful type of physician who thinks logically and rationally when striving to help people in their greatest time of need, instead of focusing on their

My career goals have led me to Cedars-Sinai, to a residency program that provides both the academic opportunities and continuity and intimacy of care I desire. Through the program’s academic partnership, I aspire to chase lifelong learning via research and inspire other’s to better the world through education; through its ambulatory experience, I aim to be a voice for the marginalized and to practice within a diverse clinical setting. Most importantly, I wish to train at Cedars-Sinai because I have seen the internists approach care of my family with an empathetic and holistic approach I hope to emulate.

While researching medical schools, the mission and values of TCMC struck a personal chord. I was invited to an open house and learned that the final two years of medical school are spent in hospitals and doctor’s offices focusing on patient and family-centered medicine. TCMC values community health and teaches their students the importance of quality healthcare while encouraging their students to practice in rural areas. Growing up in rural PA, I have witnessed firsthand a shortage of doctors in our area--scheduling an appointment with certain physicians requires a patient to wait for weeks to months. My father and I discussed how difficult it was seeing patients immediately and the challenges of referring patients. Given TCMC’s focus on the community and rural medicine, my aspirations to practice medicine in the area I was raised, and my commitment to providing high quality healthcare, I believe that the culture and values of TCMC are the perfect fit for me.

As a person who wants to practice medicine in an underserved population, my goal is to understand the healthcare context and cultural perceptions in the local community. It is important to understand people’s psychology when treating them. Lastly, I want to become excellent at communication and interpersonal skills. When working in medicine, it is important to express kindness to people. People go their doctor when they don’t feel good. The patient will feel happier if the provider has good interpersonal skills. With knowledge from your program, I can gain communication and clinical

Location and emphasis on serving both the local and global communities is what sparked my initial interest in the MD Program at Georgetown School of Medicine. Washington, D.C. offers a culturally diverse patient population as well as a political environment, being a great place for the future and innovation in healthcare and health policy. Although learning more about the curriculum and programs at Georgetown School of Medicine, my interest was peaked by the health justice scholar track. Ever since my freshman year of college and my trip to Lima, Peru through Medlife, I have had an interest in health advocacy. Many of the conditions we saw could simply be treated but due to lack of very basic healthcare their conditions worsened. In addition,

I truly believe that this residency program would provide me with the opportunity to further enhance my understanding on patient care and management. I sincerely intend to take full advantage of this program and to use the knowledge I acquire to heal people in need and contribute to the society as whole. Working with the medical students, residents, fellows and attending in the United States has been a terrific experience for me and I sincerely believe this would really help me to adapt to the new working environment in the coming future. My diverse life experiences of working with a variety of patients from a range of economic , social and cultural background in Nepal, have helped me to realize that I possess the determination, skills, resilience

My plan is to get Public Health Master’s degree at The George Washington University, Washington, DC. I feel that my life’s experiences have created, grown and transformed my feelings, attitudes and believe toward others. I come from a modest Hispanic family, specifically from Dominican Republic a sub develop Caribbean island, which is located to the south of The United State of America. I am the third child of five children. When I was a child my parents got divorced. Then I was adopted at the age of five by a couple that have three teenager children. A few years later my foster parents got divorced and their children got married. I grew up with my adopted father, until I got married. During the years I lived with my foster father I had basic needs covered toys to play and relatives that loved me. At the same time, I had the opportunity to visit and share with my biological family; it gave the chance to observe economic, social, and educational differences between both families. When was twenty five years old, I came to the United States, as immigrant I confronted poverty, cultural differences, and language barrier. In addition I gave birth to my second child, “Diego”, who developed a brain tumor at the age of four. He had a surgery and is still treated for surgery’s consequences. Now he is seventeen, is in twelve grades, has a lot friend and enjoys life on the maximum. Thus, I have realized that life’s events have stimulated and molded my professional and personal