Mary Baldwin Personal Statement

My interest in medicine first stemmed from my freshman Biology class and my Nutrition class. I was intrigued by our studies of cells, genetics, and disease. Both courses incited a sense of awe and curiosity within me. Dissecting a frog, was the stepping-stone for my interest in medicine. Seeing the frog's heart made me wonder how the human heart worked. My research into the human heart inspired me to learn more about the medical field. I sought out volunteer opportunities that would give me insight into a doctor’s typical day. During my volunteer experience, I learned that as a doctor you experience many obstacles, including patient compliance and insurance approval issues. In my journey to pursue medicine, I learned that becoming a doctor means more than helping people, it means being the team leader, being compassionate, and most importantly being committed to the patient’s well being.

Learning the medical terminology is very much like learning a new language because just like another language, a weird looking word can mean just so much more. Not only that but it gives us in the medical field our own language to use to communicate. This makes learning the terms so much easier to do. Learning these terms will take a good bit of time since there are so many words used to describe the body and illnesses that come with it. In the next paragraph, I will give you tips on how to make sure you are able to learn and remember all the medical terminology.

My passion for medicine is something deeper than a mere interest in learning the extraordinary functions of the human body. I am completely fascinated to learn gross anatomy, histology, pathology, and the complete medical school curriculum. However, I am more captivated by how the knowledge I will gain in medical school will allow me to perform the lifesaving procedures that physicians are able execute. Although, medicine is not always ideally as I have written, I believe that as a physician I would use my knowledge and my experiences to provide the best holistic care to my patients. My culture, my experiences, and my education will bring a different perspective to the medical field. I aspire to have the ability and knowledge to save a child that might not live, to save a woman that suffers a heart stroke, and to even provide the necessary treatment for a child with a mere cold. Additionally, participating in the Loma Linda Gateway to the Health

With the start of medical school, studying basic sciences opened a door to the world enriched with years and years of research. With each passing semester, I gained more knowledge about the biochemical, physiological and anatomical aspects of medicine. The more knowledge I acquired, the more eager I became to apply what I had learnt into clinical practice. Those two years formed the foundation

I’ve found that my experiences laboring through three year of medical school to be surprisingly similar to learning another language. Being surrounded by patients, physicians and nurses at the beginning of my 3rd year, I quickly realized the vast amount of clinical knowledge that I have yet to master. Consequently, I found that my learning rate is nowhere quicker than on the

Throughout his autobiography, Baldwin describes the exhausting work he and his fellow activists do to receive civil rights. They were willing to fight with whatever they had to end it, as evident by Baldwin’s statement,

For my Health Science Exploration interview, I interviewed my mother, she is a Surgery Schedule. She went to Bryant and Stratton College for Applied Science in Medical Assisting. During this time she got her Associate's degree which took 2 years to complete with medical experience. Which means she worked in Doctors Offices, Patient First, and Hospitals to get her current job. Some of the classes she took were Medical Terminology, Anatomy and Physiology, and Medical Ethics. She told me that her favorite class was Anatomy and Physiology because she liked learning how the body works, why it works, and what each part of the body does.

My entire life I have been fascinated with the biological processes of living creatures. More specifically, I attract towards the human body. This is largely because the medical field runs in my blood, and it is hereditary. Three of my grandparents are doctors and six of my aunts/uncles are either doctors or nurses, but the person that has the most influence on me is my father though. Dr. David B. Minter is an Orthopedic surgeon with a practice in Sports Medicine. All of this knowledge brought up some very intelligent conversations at every family get together. It is because of all of this influence that I have become a scrutinizer, and it is the reason why I love learning so much. In everything I do, I look past the obvious information and search for the information that will really help me understand whatever it is I am looking at.

Founders day is a day that the student body can come together and set aside our differences. It is a day of celebration for those who are graduating in the upcoming spring as well as a 175th birthday celebration for our school. Under this day, we give our blessings to the students who are about to leave this university as well as praise for Mary Baldwin in creating this university. With every Founders Day, we are giving credit and appreciation to Mary Baldwin for taking the drive to develop our university. We are giving her the impression that we value her work and will continue to inspire others to follow the path that she had laid out for us. Overall, Founders Day brought joy to my eyes because it was magnificent seeing the student body come

My interest in medicine began as a childhood passion for science. In medical school, I was initially drawn to Neurology as I found the nervous system particularly fascinating, but quickly learned that I desired something more hands-on. I then thought Emergency Medicine would be well-suited to my desire for a procedural specialty involved in high-acuity critical care, but continued to have an unsettling feeling that something was lacking.

During my formative years as a young child, I spent several months in the hospital, and several years in and out of doctor’s offices. I have always been a curious learner and the medical staff was always willing to answer all of my questions. During my stay at the hospital, science became my obsession. It did not matter if it was mechanical or the human body, I had to learn about it. As I have gotten older, my interest in science has continued to expand. I have recently read a Basic EMT textbook, a fire science textbook,

I remember fracturing my ankle once from a soccer injury. I took around a month or two to rehabilitate my injury. The physician was able to answer all the questions I had as well as teach me how to walk again after removing my cast. His knowledge of the body and how fast he could recall the information fascinated me. Of course there is also my mother who is a nurse, and she also wants me to be a doctor. In addition to that, my passion to help people added on to my curiosity of pursuing a life in the medical field. It was not until I took Honors Biology 1 with Professor Do at IVC that my interest in biology was made certain. I originally wanted to be a clinical psychologist, but the reason I strayed from it was because I wanted to deal with

Growing up in the Philippines, I always found myself sitting inside my aunt’s pediatric clinic, watching her treat numerous patients while my parents were at work. Seeing my aunt help make others’s lives better was appealing to me. It wasn’t until when my family and I migrated to America that I discovered my passion for science and interest in medicine as I watched countless documentaries from the Discovery Channel and reading my first children’s encyclopedia after school. I was ecstatic as I flipped through the pages, absorbing the information, and often found myself looking up articles online to see how the topics I saw and read about impacted the modern world. Since then, becoming a physician has always

Let me first start of by saying I have been surrounded by the prospect of medicine and science since i was a little kid. There were days where my mom took me into her office and let me observe her patients as well as showing me how to use a stethoscope or as i used to call it the “doctor rope”. There were days where kids my age usually were spelling hard words like ambidextrous,playground,yesterday, and etc, while on the other hand i was spelling the names of medical drugs like tylenol,prilosec, and vicodin. There were my frequent summer trips to india where i noticed both my grandparents helping rural patients with their struggles and pain. As i grew older i realized that no matter how different health care is in different parts of the world only two things remain constant no matter

Even though I had planned to pursue this path to become a medical doctor, I had my doubts because I was not the brightest student. I was still confused until I went to biology class during my eighth grade year. In this class, I learned about the heart and the circulatory system for the first time in my life and it was mind blowing. I was amazed by the way the teacher explained this concept to the class and when the teacher asked if someone was willing to present this topic to other students, I immediately raised my