Letter To Attend Osteopathic Medical School

One of the main missions of the university is to help underserved communities. I believe that both my personal and academic experience has engrained in me the qualities that are essential for completing medical school and becoming a doctor. I want to become an osteopathic doctor that is involved in the community and serves those who lack proper health care. My primary care doctor, who is an osteopathic doctor, influenced my decision to pursue osteopathic medicine. She taught me that osteopathic medicine consists of treatment with holistic approaches, and it involves an education in physical manipulation. This aspect is particularly of interest to me because this is an approach that is used in India. Overall, I believe that I am a thoroughly qualified candidate to pursue a DO degree from Touro college of Osteopathic Medicine. The sheer pleasure I derive from helping people and sharing what I know, coupled with the mental stimulation intrinsic to the profession, make medicine the clear career pathway for

Currently there are two main types of licensed physicians in the United States. The first is the medical doctor or the allopathic doctor. About 95% of licensed doctors have been educated at one of over 120 allopathic medical schools and have thus obtained a medical doctor degree (M.D.). The second type of doctor, the doctor of osteopathy, is less common. Osteopathic doctors make up about five percent of the physicians in the nation (Peters 730). Although this represents a significant amount of physicians many people are unfamiliar with the second type of doctor. In a 1981 the AOA (American Osteopathic Association) released the results of a survey about public

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Moreover, the mission of Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, of improving the health of the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico is a vision that I share. Growing up in this region has allowed me to see the value of having individuals from the community serve as physicians. Furthermore, this will help close the primary care gaps in the underserved rural and Hispanic communities. I believe that the post-baccalaureate program of Foundations of Biomedical Sciences will give me the opportunity to demonstrate my capability of succeeding in a rigorous academic program such as Burrell College of Osteopathic

Describe the top three reasons you have chosen osteopathic medicine as your professional choice in becoming a physician (Please use your own description and not one that widely describes the profession).

Truthfully, as an undergraduate I knew very little about the osteopathic profession. In 2013, however, I began working as a medical scribe with Dr. Ghaffari-Greene, DO, in the Sibley ER and she opened my eyes to the beauty of osteopathic medicine. Thanks to Dr. Ghaffari-Greene, and a number of other osteopathic physicians in the ER, I have come to understand what osteopathic medicine is all about. Three years after my first exposure to the osteopathic profession, I continue to be motivated to become an osteopathic physician for many reasons. These include the following:

I have a strong interest in Geisel School of Medicine because of Geisel’s unique learning environment and its various opportunities for me to contributing back to the community.

I first learned about osteopathic medicine through admissions workshop in graduate school. Osteopathic medicine’s emphasis on primary care and helping medically underserved communities truly appealed to me. As I delved further about its philosophy in the books, I am also interested by the fact that osteopathic physicians are trained to focus on health, not the disease. This will improve the overall well-being of a patient and prevent diseases. In Burma, I faced the challenges of substandard health care and education, without clean water, food or public sanitation. All these experiences, complicated by my bouts of tuberculosis and typhoid taught me at a young age to appreciate the value of a healthy life.

I want to become an osteopathic physician, because osteopathic doctors take the additional strides toward providing their patients with holistic care. Unlike other health care professionals osteopathic doctors try to obtain the most detailed history, starting from the patient’s birth, sometimes even before that. During the history taking

I have chosen osteopathic medicine as my professional choice in becoming a physician, because I have a passion for the healthcare field and learning, I want to be able to help others and give back to the community and I believe that medicine is evolving towards an osteopathic approach which takes into account the body as a whole. Passion is the driver behind any good physician. I am always looking to learn and improve upon my performance in whatever I am doing. Whether it was undergraduate coursework, medical shadowing, EMT training, or community service I put forth my fullest effort into the task at hand. Every moment in medicine and life in general is a valuable learning experience. Osteopathic medicine will force me outside of my comfort zone and many mistakes will be made along the way, but I look forward to tackling the challenges ahead of me and in the end it will allow me to become the best physician possible.

Rauf Abayev has been volunteering at this hospital for over a year now. In addition to volunteering, he has been shadowing the PAs in the general surgery clinic under my supervision. Furthermore, I have come to know him quite well when he shadowed me during the whole summer. It is a pleasure to be able to provide this letter of recommendation for him for admission to the PA program.

I, Dr. Eric McDonald, MD am truly enthused about recommending Dhoha Alhashim for admission into medical school. It gives me immense pleasure, indeed, to suggest one of our emergency department's marvelous medical scribes, Ms. Alhashim, into your incoming class. I have known Dhoha Alhashim for the past six months in her capacity as a medical scribe. As a medical scribe, Ms. Alhashim had the opportunity to work side by side with some of the department's successful providers; her duties included documenting medical history, physical exam, procedures performed by providers, and transcribed lab and radiology test results on patients' charts. I, personally, had the opportunity to work with this intelligent young lady and observed the transformation of this incredible medical scribe over the past six months. Ms. Alhashim has been exposed to patients with a variety of symptoms and witnessed difficult patient encounters and critical cases, observing the proper ways to manage such situations. Ms. Alhashim has also become acquainted with our department's medical equipments. We have certainly been very pleased with the work performed by Dhoha Alhashim. Her intelligence, enthusiasm and curiosity for learning have enabled her to

This letter is my formal recommendation of Ajmal Khan to your Program. I had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Khan for a two month observership at James A. Haley Veterans’ hospital, Tampa, Florida. Dr. Khan observed inpatient and outpatients’ procedures, and attend rounds and teaching conferences. I worked closely with him and Dr. Khan stood out as an individual with curiosity and dedication to hard work.

Quite goal-oriented, and in terms of room-related projects, he's always been a great community member in that department as he always makes an effort to follow through with what he takes on.

I can trace my early interest in orthopaedics back to my grade-school years growing up on a remote oil field in Indonesia where my father was an engineer. The jungle region was beautiful and wild, but the remoteness had a down side. The nearest hospital was a half day’s travel over unpaved mountain roads for many local people. As a result, the fractured bones and minor infections of local farmers and loggers often turned into amputations before timely medical attention could be had. Disfigurement and disability were facts of life so common that they went almost without notice. As an outsider, I was struck by this situation and resolved to help one day. I developed interest in becoming a doctor, volunteered at local hospitals in high school, and worked at the Free Clinic at UC Berkeley for 9 years providing basic medical care to the underserved. This experience eventually persuaded me to forego a promising research career in Nanotechnology and to enter medical school.