Infectious Disease Personal Statement

A medical professional essential role always boils down to serving other people faithfully. For me, I have always found great joy in serving the community in any capacity, but found a special joy in health care. I have found my desire to serve is what continually motivates me to become a Physician Assistant. This drive has help me maintain a 3.80 GPA, while leading my college soccer team as a captain for the past three seasons. All while establishing myself as a chemistry lab assistant and tutor. The balance between the three is great preparation for the future as I prepare to face the challenges ahead. I am aware of the value of education and gaining as much knowledge as possible, however I equally value establishing relationships with people.

My professional goal is to be a respected physician. I believe Internal Medicine is the right specialty for me, and I am enthusiastic to enter this field. I want to find the program that encourages its residents to take care of the patients while under the guidance of the faculty who love to teach. In addition, I also would like to have an opportunity to contribute my strengths to the program not only to make it even more outstanding, but also make its patient care more excellent. In the future, I envision myself working as a Hospitalist and maintaining an outpatient

In hindsight, although becoming a physician was always my plan, I was not quite ready to commit. However, my time away from school has allotted me clarity in many areas. Much of this clarity came from becoming independent, not only financially, but more importantly in own my beliefs. I no longer constantly look to others to validate the decisions I make. Working side by side with physicians has given me a better understanding of the interdependence of business, clinical work, and the politics that come with working in a large hospital. Not only has my desire to enter the healthcare field become personal, but more importantly I now understand what it means to be a caretaker. The most essential realizations have been recognizing the amount of sacrifice and humility that coincide with being a caregiver, and appreciating that someone entrusts you to care for them. Maintaining this trust while remembering to be empathetic are two great responsibilities, and I cannot think of a more noble reward than having your community’s trust bestowed upon you. It is an honor to be granted the ability to improve peoples’ lives through

I will be able to expand my role as care provider and health educator for my patients. Having seen firsthand the positive influence of nurse practitioners providing health education during clinic visits, I look forward to expanding this role in my own practice someday.

I have extremely high interest in practicing primary care medicine especially in underserved areas due to the nature of the task. Medicine in these areas tends to be independent in nature in that you get to experience unique and interesting medical cases. I very much appreciate the intellectual stimulation it would most likely provide while also serving communities that most likely need healthcare the most.

It was during my internship year that I found my niche in Internal Medicine. Fresh out of final year, it was intriguing how illnesses seldom presented as described in textbooks, the classic paroxysm in Malaria being a good case in point. Preexisting co-morbidities and medications served to add another layer of complexity, effectively individualizing every person that presented to the service. Every bedside came with a different set of challenges even if the illness was the same. By the time the shift was over I would have interpreted Pulmonary Function Tests to adjust medications for a 60 year old with emphysema, ruled out dengue in a

As I was reading about the village and the people in the village in Madagascar, I really admired Janice Harper the medical anthropologist. The living conditions and the health of the people really made me think about how fortunate we are in the United States to have health care. The mortality rate was disturbing with 100 deaths per 1000 people compared to that of the US being 8 deaths per 1000 population (Singer & Baer, 2012, p.45). It would be wonderful to be able to go to different countries to help people improve their health care and provide proper medical care, but not sure how one deals with the conditions of the different countries. It definitely takes a special person to be able to deal with the situations Harper encountered. But, Harper found that even though the children where sick with bloated bellies, ear infections, scabies and boils, they were still active and happily playing (Singer & Baer, 2012, p.45). This was the children’s way of life and how they

My long-term career goal is to combine clinical practice with academia. While my teaching experience was limited to leading small group discussions as a cell biology teacher assistant at UMBC and tutoring Biochemistry and Physiology to fellow medical students, I found it intellectually challenging and rewarding to find engaging ways to help students make connections between the required clinical knowledge and an actual clinical

Hospital acquired infections are one of the most common complications of care in the hospital setting. Hospital acquired infections are infections that patients acquired during the stay in the hospital. These infections can cause an increase number of days the patients stay in the hospital. Hospital acquired infections makes the patients worse or even causes death. “In the USA alone, hospital acquired infections cause about 1.7 million infections and 99,000 deaths per year”(secondary).

In my life, I have experienced the incredible work healthcare professionals can provide and how lack of access to care can lead to dire consequences. Growing up in my village in Bangladesh, I was first hand witness to this lack of adequate healthcare. I had to watch my sisters deliver babies without training, I had to witness an aunt suffer in an agony due to the lack of adequate healthcare facility, but my most vivid experience of this lack of healthcare came when I was the victim of an acid attack and had to wait three days to receive medical attention. Due to this attack, I have third degree burn on approximately ninety percent of my body, and left me blind in one eye. Due to the lack of adequate health care in Bangladesh, two organizations, “Healing the Children” and “Naripokkho”, decided to provide me with medical care in the United States. It was there, that I was eventually exposed to all the wonderful work that could be done by doctors and other healthcare professionals. I have had approximately thirty reconstructive surgeries to repair my nose, eyelids and part of my forehead that was perforated through my skull. These experiences have inspired me to want to become a doctor, with the hope of giving back to my local community in Bangladesh, United States and globally.

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 interested in science that preserves and enhances the community's quality of life through policy reform, technology innovation, research and advocacy. I have recently graduated from Agnes Scott College with a bachelor's degree in Public Health and I am looking forward to a career that works to eliminate health disparities by transforming policy and innovating technology to strategically create social environments where physical and economic conditions allow for enhanced quality of life. My undergraduate curriculum was focused around quantitative research methods, that provided me with a base in utilizing various techniques to measure a population's health, selecting public health measures relevant to the situation, understanding how health data or research can impact policy, collecting data, interpreting as wells analyzing data, determining social determinates of health, and evaluating: burden of disease, epidemiological profile, incidence levels, and prevalence levels within a population. Overall the program prepared me to acknowledge the social and cultural units that configure the world in which I live through inquisitive interaction with social phenomena. I feel that my academic background has made me skilled with the social issues of my time in a way that allows me to not only understand but shape the world in which I live, grow, work,

A wicked grin ghosted Amy's pale lips at the strangers' description to whoever listened to the other side of his comm. Eyes worthy of her name fixated on the weapon poised in her direction, her gaze shifted momentarily as he requisitioned information from the VDT " Don't fret about infection; I simply borrowed an inconsequential amount of blood platelets, as you were the closest source in conjunction to vivificating me " Her tone was calm as well as collected in an almost professional manner given the circumstances. Pausing briefly to inhale a couple deep breaths. It was then that she noticed a slight draft against her skin as her body temperature elevated faintly. Glancing down it dawned on her that upon entering the cryogenic pod she had stripped of all attire, save for the body jewelry that glinted from her bosom ( resembling two skeletal hands formed to cover each nipple), lip, as well as vaguely pointed ears. A large purplish scar resembling a lightning strike reached from just below her collarbone stretching up towards the base of her throat. The only other adornment that graced her alabaster skin was a modest, shimmering, obsidian colored tattoo in an old forgotten language that encircled her wrist.

As I progress in my career as a Music Therapist, I plan to have a private practice. I would have the freedom to see clients in other settings besides just in a hospital. By having a private practice, I will be able to go into schools, nursing homes, daycares, prisons, and into patient’s homes. I will be able to work around my patients lives and my home life more easily. Being able to pick my hours leaves me more time to have a social life and meet new

My future career is becoming an Infectious Disease Specialist. This is a career in the medical field where a patient might have a disease that is contagious and their blood, urine etc. samples come to the specialists. The specialists see what kind of disease the patient has based off of this. They can determined if it can be treated and how to plan to contain the disease so no one else gets it. An example of using the Respiratory anatomy knowledge in my career field might be seen on the patient. A patient might have an infectious Respiratory disease that comes into the hospital. The nurses or regular onsite doctors might do a series of tests on the respiratory part of the body. A test might be a Pulmonary Function Test (PFT) which measures