Medical Assistant Personal Statement Report

My portfolio would consist of three documents: my cover letter, a table contents, and my resume. Each file must be specific to my field in order to show the prospective employer what I am capable of doing. My resume will be a concise summary of my past work experience, education, certificates, references, and skills I hold personally along with my character. The table of contents will make it very easy for the prospective employer to navigate through the portfolio and find my information, while noticing my good organization skills. My cover letter is just a brief summary of what i have done to work my way into the medical field, my past work experience, and what i hope to achieve while working as a medical assistant.

Growing up in an underserved community made me realize the blessing of a quality education and good physicians. Having faced an arduous medical diagnosis has given me the ability to look at things from a special perspective. Rocky beginnings in community college accompanied by time off from school allowed me to work fulltime

This ability to be flexible with the Physician Assistant role is yet another reason why I am pursuing this career pathway. The MD or NP role is typically more defined to a specialty area where as the PA can work in several different specialties without having to do another residency program. I have always been a lifelong learner and enjoy the challenge of learning new things in the medical world and I try to expand my horizons with new areas of medicine. Being a Physician Assistant will allow the opportunity to change specialties throughout my career if I choose to explore a new

My experience and skills are surpassed only by my enthusiasm to effectively meet the challenges before me. I am a highly capable, motivated, and energetic individual that enjoys working with others towards successful solutions. My leadership style incorporates motivation through positive feedback and support plus straightforwardness and open communication that builds trust and loyalty among my peers and patients alike. Throughout my personal experiences, education, and athletic career I have honed the ability to be a leader in times where others look for leadership. Leadership is not given; a confident, competent, and motivated individual takes leadership of a situation.

43 degrees Fahrenheit and realizing I had forgotten my arm warmers and iPod, I recognized the 26.2 miles ahead of me would require some grit. Yet before the starting pistol fired and the recording of Frank Sinatra singing “New York, New York” played, I knew all the preparation done in the months and weeks prior had primed me for a successful finish. There is a mantra in distance running, “the hay is in the barn,” to affirm that all of the training and miles logged up until race day will lead you to success. And it is this mantra which has guided my preparation for a career as a physician assistant.

Having this opportunity to learn and experience the medical field in a more real and deep way make me realize how much I enjoyed to help others feel better when they're more burnable and to know how many challenges the

Science and medicine has always fascinated me and has been interesting to be since my education started as a child. All my cousins used to play video games, playing house, playing cards, but instead I always forced everyone on pretending my patients and me treating them and caring for them as a doctor. I also wanted my family members to act if they were sick and they needed help. As time passed, I no longer had to play as it was the reality now and they really now needed help. I have witnessed my family members, my grandmother who passed away due to heart attack at an early age, my other grandmother who currently is sick, my grandfather who passed away also due to heart attack.

I have had the opportunity to work with many health professionals, but my experience with PAs has solidified my vocation

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. “ Those words, spoken by Confucius, represent the goal of not only mine, but many others when it comes to finding your true calling. The voyage to find your purpose in life can be quite difficult. Often times this journey proves too challenging and forces an individual to give up all together and instead settle for something easier to obtain and inferior to their original goal. This can commonly lead to feelings of unfulfillment and regret in the choices you have made. It’s not until you find your true calling that you go from thinking about your job as something that you have to do to something that you love doing.

Pursuing careers blindly based only on financial gains was a major mistake that only brought unhappiness and felt hollow and unreal to me until I discovered the existence of a physician assistant (PA) profession. Various reasons led me to a career path of a PA, but the reasons that stand out the most are a patient I encountered while volunteering at a hospital, summer I shadowed and assisted PAs, and the PA students that I met.

I went to the dentist and followed my aunt. The staff dressed nicely and acted very professionally. Their professionalism was great because they greeted us with a genuine smile. They listened carefully to what we say and answered us with a good explanation. Some steps I could take to create a professional appearance is greeting patients with kindness and care. Another one is to be clean, have your hair out of the way, and don't wear jewelry or wear little. Also, covering tattoos is an important step. Putting on hand sanitizer of some kind when going in and out of patient rooms is also important.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the “Employment of physician assistants is projected to grow 30 percent from 2014 to 2024, much faster than the average for all occupations.” Knowing that this career has many jobs available is very desirable to me, because sometimes people spend years obtaining a higher-level education and yet still struggle to find a job after their schooling is complete. In my case, finding a job would be much easier due to the fact that America’s growing and aging population is going to require more healthcare services. Another reason why the job outlook is above average is because a physician’s assistant can provide many of the same services as a physician can, but

With that, I was able to experience behind the scenes action in the hospital. Many people may think they want to work in a certain area or field, but once they actually get there, they realize it's not for them. I was one of those people. I aspired to be a paramedic or an emergency technician, but after spending time in the ER at Sharp Grossmont Hospital, I came to accept it wasn´t the job for me. I didn't want to work in a typical hospital setting. I wanted to be out and traveling, helping those in areas with poor health care, trying to find ways to fight incurable diseases; not in an air conditioned room with an elderly lady claiming her toe feels tingly.

For me this is where the real journey began. I was out of the military and off to college. Along the journey of my undergraduate career I have fallen in love, married the woman of my dreams, grieved through a miscarriage, had a beautiful baby girl and have another baby boy on the way. Never through any of this has my dedication to pursuing a career as a Physician Assistant waivered. Why do I want to become a Physician Assistant? Because it shows my children that if you want something bad enough and are willing the put in the hard work, you can achieve anything you set your mind

My love for the business aspect of healthcare has contributed to me wanting to make a difference in other people's lives, and help improve the lives of many people. That's why one unforgettable experience that has taught me to be firm in spite of difficulty and the true meaning of tenacity, was when I got the opportunity to work as an administrative assistant at an accountant firm. I was a recent graduate from an community college and I knew I wanted to do more in my life ,but I wasn’t sure how or where to start . I decide to apply for multiple office jobs not expecting to get a call back, but hoping I would.