Maxillofacial Surgeon: A Self Analysis

To start, I have always been ambitious and strong-willed. When I have my mind set on something, I do everything in my power to make my dreams a reality.

Critical thinking and ethical decision making are crucial for academic success as well as career success. Both critical thinking and ethical choices allow an appreciation of diverse points of view using analytic approaches, create a tolerance for and an appreciation of ambiguity, allow for creative problem-solving, and give the ability to integrate knowledge from diverse viewpoints into unified ideas and strategies. To better understand how critical thinking and ethics impacts our success, we must analyze these skills and how they relate to us academically, and to our future careers.

“As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.”-Mehmet Oz. One never considers themselves able to accomplish something great until they meet someone great who has already acquired insight of the world from the other side, the side where all of the talented men dwell. A young girl does not grow up dreaming of becoming an oral surgeon; she dreams of traveling and seeing the world outside of the walls of her small town. I had already had my fair share of adventure, having more surgeries than my mother had by the time I was three months old. I had what specialists call Van der Woude Syndrome. Basically, I was the 1 in 100,000 babies in the world who happened to have this genetic disorder. A key characteristic of Van der Woude Syndrome is a cleft lip. With that being said, I had many surgeons in my lifetime, but one man stuck out. Maybe it was because it was one of the biggest surgeries I had, or maybe, just maybe it was because God had put him in my path to inspire me for greatness.

If you do not set goals or achievements for yourself then, you will not be successful in life. One major goal that I set for myself is to be elected at the ROTC program at Colts Neck High School. Unfortunately, it will not be an easy goals to achieve. It is going to a long bumpy ride until I reach my destination. However, if I study hard, complete all of my school assignments, and get antoshining grades then, I can find a shortcut to make this ride shorter and maybe even smoother after all. Also, participation is one of the main keys to achieving this goal. I make sure that I participate in class and in after school activities such as track and field and basketball because then my teachers and my coach could recommend me. This single goal persily will overall make me smarter and a hardworking student by the end of the year.

During my high school years, I can confidently say I have excelled in my academic endeavours. This success is partially due to my desire to learn. I am always intrigued by the lessons and concepts that are at the core of assigned work. My passion for learning has facilitated my learning process; because I am usually interested in the material that is being taught, my ability to retain and understand information is heightened. My academic success is also due to my drive to do the best I can. Since grade nine, I have demanded excellence from myself in all academic subjects. I strived to perform to the best of my abilities in the first high school years so that I would adopt that habit early and take it with me through the senior high school years. Finally, my academic excellence

I am responsible everyday of my life. For example, I have responsibility by showing up to school and getting my homework done and turning it in on time. Also, I am responsible by showing up to work on time and working for others even though it is not my weekend to work. I always try to experience something new each day. Whether this be learning something that I did not know about or trying to get someone to try something that they have never done. I am in HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America), which is an organization that I try to persuade people who are going into the medical field to join. This is a great way to learn more about the medical career that they want to go into. I joined HOSA because I was interested in Radiological Technician. By joining this organization, I learned so much about my career in which I want to go into. This made me want to go into to that so much more. One of my weaknesses is that I have always been a person that puts too much trust into some people, which is not always bad. Sometimes when I trust a person too much then I will not be able to trust that person ever

We are typically instructed that there is one correct way to complete a task and we should only follow the path of others. With this type of mindset, our society would never improve and only rely only on what is already known which is very problematic when new problems arise. My goal is to continually strengthen my problem solving so that in my career field I can continually provide advancements to supplement growth in several areas.

Define the problem is the most useful strategy for me. It is often hard to identify the root of the problem when making a decision. For example, goal setting can be difficult when you have more than one goal that you want to accomplish. I have so many goals that I want to accomplish, but the problem is trying to finish them all at once. Doing so I never complete any goals. It becomes too stressful and overwhelming. Once I define the problem I can start organizing the information from what is important and what is more realistic to complete first.

Collectively mapping out a professional career path requires a variety of skills, included but not limited to commitment, diligence, fortitude, integrity, patience and professionalism. Critical thinking is one component that is imperative from a tactical standpoint, as well as a strategic business perspective.

In Neel Burton’s article, “Is Ambition Good or Bad?” Burton insists that ambitious people achieve for the “sake of the rewards of the achievement,” including that of money, honor, and title. He claims that no person may alter their ambition, much like any other characteristic a person may own. He supports his claim by first mentioning Ethics (1677), “everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates,” because he who has achieved one persons following, will soon achieve another “for which to keep on striving,” (4). Then, Burton states that ambition is classified to three different forms: healthy ambition, unhealthy ambition, and lack of ambition.

Growth should never end. Becoming better in what you do is always important in becoming a better you. I would say for me to work better at having ambition, I should try to trust more and be more positive. I should also remain focus on my common clear goals.

By cultivating the positive Critical Thinking Habit of Mind of being Systematic in my life it will help me achieve my healthcare career goals. I try to implement this in many aspects of my life and it has gotten me where I am today. Mainly by being persistent and going after what I want staying focused and knowing what I want and where I want to be.

I encourage myself by getting a high GPA for graduating high school, continuing my education, and also I proud of myself that I’m an an English learner. I love to reach my goals by being a success and study hard. My big goal is to be a computer scientist in the future. My strengths I have to reach these goals: I have patience, strong family, tenacity, and kind friends they all proud of

In school and in english, I try my hardest to get good grades. Even if I don't feel like studying I know i have to look it over in order to hopefully get a better grade. To study, I look over the terms or what is being studied a couple times over. After looking it over a couple times, I may test myself and see what I need to study more. I am good at getting my homework done. If I am done with the homework for tomorrow, I see if I can get any done or started for later in the week to be prepared. My goal is to get good grades in class and to finish out the class with a good grade. Another goal of mine is to get better at English and understand it more because I don't think it is my best class. I also would like to pass the Keystones. My weaknesses

Education plays an imperative role in developing these skills. Young and Warren (2011), in their review of the education literature, stated that a number of cross-sectional research studies have shown that a student’s critical thinking ability can improve while at college. While Parcarella and Terenzini (2005) approximate that a student can improve their critical thinking skills by 63% by the end of their sophomore year. According to Hurt (2007) these skills must be developed consistently, purposefully and rationally over time to enable students to appropriately respond to the intricate issues that the working environment