Importance Of Admissions In My Life

I shadowed Dr. Roisin Connolly, a physician-scientist at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, because I wanted to familiarize myself with different branches of oncology. I observed her communicate negative prognoses to her patients with compassion, and apply her own research on adjuvant and neoadjuvant chemotherapy directly to patient care. I found it extremely gratifying to see scientific knowledge directly translated to benefit patients. Knowing that I was interested in cancer research, she gave me publications on novel chemotherapy regimens to read, and always took the time to explain the logic behind her diagnoses. This shadowing experience allowed me to integrate academic research with clinical medicine.

It was a perfect night for a run. Around 70 degrees with a slight breeze. I wait in my Dark Blue Mini Cooper as my watch gets my location. Feet trembling with adrenaline, much like an addict, I’m itching for a run. With a loud “BEEP,” I know the smartwatch is ready and I’m off. As time progresses, I start running faster, faster, and faster. The whispering wind would flow through my hair as I make my way down the trail. Bliss. I notice my surroundings, trees, deer, and the bright light of my headlamp. Chills go up my spine every so often. All I hear is the pitter pattering of my red running shoes and the occasional rustle of bushes. After what feels like the shortest moment ever, my half-hour run is over and I sigh with relief.

The problematic of medicine is that it has led people to understand illness only in terms of singular causes, or that of a particular ‘disease agent’. However, illness usually develops as a result of a confluence of social, political and environmental factors. Hence, in order to effectively construct an environment where Brazilians, particularly the most marginalised, escapes viral infection, it is essential that policy makers and health workers learn to conceptualise illnesses beyond its medical diagnoses.

My interest in public health stems from a lifelong connection to and fascination with our healthcare system, even from the time before I could comprehend it. From as far back as I can remember, I have been surrounded by individuals with a passion for the maintenance, education, and defense of health and wellness. My mother was a registered nurse, and elements of her profession, such as a commitment to compassion and unyielding ethical values, became salient characteristics of my upbringing. In addition, I learned of the far-reaching effects of disease long before ever stepping foot in a microbiology lecture hall. Both my uncle and great-uncle contracted malaria while serving in the armed forces—in the Gulf War and the Second World War, respectively. My grandfather from the other side of the family acquired a parasitic infection during the Korean War that has left him permanently immunocompromised. I witnessed them having to fight for their lives on more than one occasion. And I wanted to help.

Even though academic achievement is important for college admissions, it is not the primary consideration for college admission. The primary consideration for college admissions should focus more on the character of that person, the work ethic and drive of that person, and the leadership of the person that is admitting to the college.

My interest in Infectious disease began even before entering residency half way across the world in the unique country of Nepal. Nepal is rich in natural beauty with breath taking landscapes, diverse culture but is also one of the most impoverished. I had the privilege to witness first hand how the dedicated physicians living there do the most with less in one of the most remotest parts of Nepal. Majority of the cases were infectious in nature with differentials including organisms not as prevalent in the US: tuberculosis, typhoid, dengue, malaria, brucellosis and leptospirosis to name a few. What the physicians lacked in resources, they made up their close attention to detail in both the history and the thoroughness of their physical exam. My interest further developed during my residency years where I had the pleasure of working with seasoned infectious disease attendings and was exposed to an array of pathology… even seeing a handful of extremely rare

Another concern to global health is the fact that not all illnesses are recognized and treated within a biomedical paradigm. Specifically, somatic syndromes are ambiguous disorders that are not classified within a Western medical institution, and are hard to treat when using only a biomedical diagnostics. Since globalization and mass migration is rapidly impacting the world, it would seem crucial to understand how health and disease is studied within a global context. However, medical anthropologists tend to take either a biocultural

I have friends who graduated from college several years ago, and it seems as if their experience gaining entry into certain programs and different colleges was a bit less challenging than is currently the case. To explore this issue I attempted to collect both primary and secondary sources on the issue, which I then evaluated to determine if they answered the question I was posing or if they provided contradictory evidence of my

While contemporary global health organizations are seen as pinnacles of modern globalization and scientific methodology, many are still mired in their colonial and imperialist origins. For example, the mission of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria is strongly reminiscent of tropical medical practices. Tropical medicine, a product of equatorial imperialism, worked on racially or culturally motivated narratives of superiority; this resulted in treatments emphasizing simply disease over general good health (Farmer et al, 59). For example, chapter 3 of Reimaging Global Public Health details how the WHO malaria eradication attempts failed largely due to insufficiently accounting for underlying social causes of the disease in addition to biological factors. Malaria as en epidemic is deeply entrenched in the societal fabric of many regions, making eradication significantly more difficult than a basic medical approach of treatment and prevention. Similarly, the Global Fund appears prone to oversimplifying the treatment and prevention of AIDS and the stigma that surrounds it.

As a volunteer on a medical mission to Panama, I helped set up clinics and assess patients in tandem with local doctors. I learned how to diagnose and treat common ailments, and used my Spanish speaking skills to educate patients on healthy habits and lifestyles. I came to appreciate the lack of quality health care available in rural

In the beginning of every academic year, universities are welcoming enormus number of new addmissions that they enter from a high school environment and consequently non-university mentality to an academic environment. Although they eventually learn the rules and the setting of the new atmosphere, the adjusment period has been identified as a hindering factor in the academic developments of the new entries who will find their beginning months of their higher education critical for their future. Therefore, almost all universities attempt to organize some worksuops and training periods for the new addmissions to shorten this period and promote the academic programs. This essays will explain two strategies that are more acceptable that the other

For the past few months I have diligently pursued my goal of achieving an overall score of 310 on the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE). I chose this goal because I wanted to push my limits as a student and prove to myself that I am capable of succeeding on standardized exams. Additionally, because the GRE is highly touted as a valid measure of a student’s potential success in graduate school, I knew that a high score would be imperative towards graduate school admission. Furthermore, as a student ready to apply into the ever so competitive field of speech pathology, I wanted to ensure that I did everything I could to make my application as strong as possible. As such, I spent countless hours studying to achieve my goal

“No one here [in the United States] would allow you to perform medical procedures for which you’re not licensed. And that should not change when you cross international boundaries to developing countries,” states Melissa Melby, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Delaware (Cole 2016). Beginning in the 1980s, Short Term Experiences of Global Health (STEGH) programs have been providing healthcare to developing countries to eliminate health disparities. STEGHs occur for a short duration abroad, with an aim to participate in clinical care, education, research, and public health efforts. However, STEGHs have been plagued with critiques claiming the programs inflict more harm than aid, which has led to ethical violations, cultural insensitivity, and lack of sustainability. Academic and medical communities have been developing principles to eliminate controversy and encourage cultural humility, long-term sustainability, and ethical protocol.

Every person is shaped by his/her life experiences and life history. As a result, one’s social, and in this context, medical, situation is highly contingent on the different life experiences a patient has been exposed to. As C. Wright Mills coined the term, Sociological Imagination, MD students today should abide by his sentiment in placing the individual self apart from the typical and habitual patterns in a given society. One must step out of his/her own bubble to see the world for greater than what they are constrained to. The MD students should be able to value the importance placed on the social aspects of health and diseases, for it is true that what is considered an illness in one society, may be seen as a blessing in another. One must value the patient’s perspectives according to their life history. It all comes down to context. For example, today’s modern world is so technologically advanced that one may be able to go online “WebMD” to evaluate his/her symptoms to help them better understand the body’s deficits. However, in a different context, perhaps 200 years ago, the individual might not have had all the resources available to him/her and this might have impacted the individual’s health outcomes. Time is not the only cue to context. When looking at different parts of the world, even within the same country or state, people’s lives differ in many sorts of ways. Perhaps a child of a low income family needing to work in unstable work environment, while the

While I was growing up, my home in Nairobi often felt like a medical hotel. We constantly had relatives from rural towns staying with us while they received medical care at a local hospital. This was unfortunately the norm in Kenya, where people could only access decent care by travelling to the nation’s capital. Relatives in poor health would regularly make a two-day journey over pothole-ridden roads to the city. As commonplace as this was, no frequency of ailing visitors could have prepared me for my grandmother’s final visit. The rural doctors had not been able to establish what was wrong with her and after a week of treatment in Nairobi, she died due to symptoms caused by Tuberculosis. Pain, frustration and an intense desire to affect change immediately set in. It wasn’t clear at the time, but these feelings would be an integral part of my foray into medicine.