Integrity And The Ethos In The Altruistic Career

This has involved teaching football, hockey, cricket as well as other PE activities, refereeing matches against other school and helping out with events such as sports day. I am a sports scholar and represented my schools 2nd XI at football and 1st XI at hockey and cricket, where I was ranked 16th in the country in the Wisden schools bowling averages last year. Away from school, I am a qualified ECB Level 1 Cricket Coach and I am undertaking the Level 2 course in coaching young people and adults this winter, with the hope that I will be qualified by April. Over the summer months, I coach softball cricket to children in year 2 at my local club. It has given me great satisfaction over the last few years to see players that I have coached progress through the club in the same way I have and also break into the District and Kent Performance Boys Squads. This gives me the confidence that a career in teaching others is what I want to do.

To attain critical understanding to what medicine entails, I arranged some work experience at two GP clinics, one also being a walk-in-centre. While shadowing, I witnessed patient check-ups, typical diagnosis’ as well as the administrative aspects. By observing, I was able to appreciate the knowledge required to give a patient the best experience possible whether they needed reassurance or advice. Consequently, this helped me realise the value of the doctor-patient relationship further motivating me to learn how to adapt when in particular situations; a skill that will be invaluable in the practice of a doctor. The most notable event was when a woman entered the GP while in labour, I exercised my ability to respond appropriately, by pointing the distressed patient to the head receptionist and alerting a trained doctor as instructed. This taught me the importance of maintaining professionalism and controlling my

As I walked into Bangkhram hospital as an international shawoing volunteer, I was filled with uncertainty. Working as a volunteer in this rural hospital located in central Thailand was an amazing opportunity, but I also had millions of questions in my mind: Will the patients be receptive of me being an outsider? Is this truly the career path I would like to take? These hesitations stopped as I interacted with patients suffering from chronic mental illnesses, watched newborns receive breathing treatments in the emergency department and witnessed a woman as she received a pap smear for the first time in 22 years. By the end of my time in Thailand, these experinces allowed meto confirmed my interest in clinical medicine.

These training programmes advanced my knowledge on a lot of issues that health professionals and residents face in a care setting. This taught me how much responsibility the nurse and carers have in order to provide high standard care to the patients. With experience I will use my knowledge and skills have gained on clinical placements, by following principles of practice such as confidentiality, respect, how to deal abuse, incidents, recording documents and many more issues that take place in the work place. As a student I have learned how to prepare and plan to meet the deadlines.

To further my understanding of the profession, i independently organised a work placement shadowing a GP which was highly informative regarding life as a doctor. I witnessed a consultation involving a patient suffering from a subtle skin rash, even so, minor signs may lead to major consequences such as skin cancer hence the doctor decided to refer the patient to the hospital. Observing the ability of the doctor to think critically and operate effectively led me to acknowledge the level of professionalism involved with treating patients to provide high quality care. The manner in which the doctor dealt with the patient empathised the importance of collaborating well in a team, exercising strong leadership skills and possessing the ability to communicate clearly to treat the person, not just the illness. I believe i have enhanced and honed these skills myself whilst partaking in NCS:The Challenge

Arranging work experience at a GP, has proven to be invaluable, as I was able to see interactions between various roles including Doctors, nurses and the receptionists, with patients coming from contrasting backgrounds. This has impressed on me the importance of empathy and how to communicate sensitive issues in an appropriate manner.

Like international relations, pursuing medicine is often a long and arduous process; prescribed medications because unintended side effects, being sleep deprived after working 80 to 100 hours a week or failing a biology midterm. When I think of these aspects of medicine, I begin to think of my own experiences. Why do I continue to do research in a lab even after all my samples had been contaminated? Why continue to advocate for the social justice even though you still continue to see adversity? While keeping these hardships in mind, I realize that I want to pursue a profession which emphasizes commitment to service, and compassion. These are what drive medical doctors, and in their training, to persist in the face of adversity. Consequently, I am considering pursuing an

Work experience at Grange Park School provided me with a wealth of experience to offer the medical profession. For instance, mentoring children supplied me with the essential skills of persistence and patience. Seeing changes in the ability of the child emphasised that my future definitely lies in the medical profession. When a child struggled, I adopted the sympathetic tone I had observed at the hospital and found it to encourage them to try again. Being a prefect at school allowed me to exercise my leadership skills and the transferable skills that I learnt at Grange

Now, I realize that choosing my profession is not about the fame. Instead, I should be considered with changing lives not just saving them. I resolve to go back to Jamaica, after finishing my education, and establishing medical clinics in the rural countryside I now call home. When ambulances rush down to the street and their flashing lights illuminate the starry night, I want to be available to change a person’s life. I would like to expand my medical training from just the AP Biology and Anatomy classes and the planned medical mission trips, to the University of

I have undertaken a range of medically related work experience including spending two weeks volunteering at a pharmacy where I had the opportunity to see how services such as blood pressure and blood sugar testing worked and I was given the chance to serve customers and to give patients their prescription. During my placement, I observed how excellent communication between the pharmacist and the patient was important to enable a better understanding of the instructions on how to use the prescripted medication. This experience highlighted the importance of excellent communication between the medical professional and patient. I volunteered to be a form prefect and this enabled me to improve upon my communication and interpersonal skills. The role also allowed

This led me to organise work experience at my local hospital. Here I saw many patients with varying levels of sickness; this allowed me to explore new treatments and has improved my confidence in working alongside people plus my organisational skills have enhanced, which I believe is key to success on university courses. I also saw a wide variety of cases in different wards; from an elderly woman with osteoporosis to a teenage boy with a broken foot. This developed the transferable skills of being able to communicate and empathise with people of all ages on a professional level. Soon after I organised work experience at Blizard Institute’s research department; this gave me an understanding into the part of medicine which can be over looked, yet vital in to the current and future state of public health.

Various positions in the medical field desperately need reviving and filling, along with caring hearts to enable a new era of medicine. This permits a person to consider a great career that has numerous perks and a wonderful sense of giving back to the community. The rewards of being a part of the medical field go beyond a paycheck, and the inclination to help those who need medical attention. An opportunity to make a difference in a patient’s life comes in several forms and by various positions in the field. Amazing doctors, with great bedside manners, are always in high demand, and are crucial in selecting the correct treatment for a patient.

My foundation jobs and my current role as an Obstetrics and Gynaecology Junior Clinical Fellow has left me confident caring for medical and surgical patients, reviewing patients in clinic and assessing and initiating management for new admissions. I have gained experience on labour ward and have developed my operative skills in both obstetrics and gynaecology. Working in ITU gave me experience managing critically ill patients and identifying those requiring escalation. I have developed time management skills and the ability to prioritise as a result of busy on-call shifts.

This is the predicament that confronts medical education. Students enter their medical courses in good faith, albeit for a variety of reasons, coming from a great many backgrounds - Christians, Moslems, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists – and places - from Australia, India, China, Southeast Asia, Africa and elsewhere. They encounter patients in public hospitals facing complex ethical choices, in intense and difficult circumstances, and find themselves facing expectations somehow to provide assistance.

Unlike many of my peers, the reason for my choice of becoming a doctor was not associated with any nostalgic childhood memories of being fascinated by family members in medical field. For generations, our ancestral family occupation was farming and it was my father’s dream to see me become a doctor. He was a true altruist and wanted me to help ailing people to recover from illness. I decided to fulfil his dream as I loved doing anything for the person whom I love the most in my life. Unlike the Western system of medical education, Indian medical schooling is six years long, starts after high school. During high schooling all I know was to spend time playing Cricket, the all time favorite sport of Indian Subcontinent. I hardly paid any attention to the career path my father wished me to take up. Getting in to the State Medical schools in India was a highly difficult task with about 1-2% acceptance rate, but I could make it because of my hard work and I wanted to enjoy the happiness my father would experience from my admission in medical school. I graduated from Medical School obtaining Bachelor in Medicine and Bachelor in Surgery (MBBS) successfully followed up with one year internship at King George Hospital, Vizag, India that gave me a new perspective to a physician’s role in society, and set forth my pursuit for a career in health care. Internship was extremely rewarding both clinically and personally. As I worked at this government supported