Medical Field Admission Essay

The medical field is a career path that brings about many options and opportunities of great value. The noble idea of being a doctor tends to cloud the diligent studying and precise training that is actually required for this career. I have wanted to become a doctor since a very young age, and now that the opportunity is here for the taking, I have fully researched what it takes to succeed in this profession and various specialties of the practice. The road to a medical degree is one filled with thousands of notes, years of schooling, and many stressful nights, but the reward is one incomparable to any other. Saving people’s lives on a day-to-day basis has been one of my dreams for as long as I can remember, so the rigorous curriculum

“What are you even doing here? I have never seen such flawed technique in all my years as a choreographer.” The words echoed throughout the medical college auditorium. Impelled by the admonishment in front of my peers, I persevered in my endeavor to improve upon my dancing prowess and by the final year of medical school was leading the college dance team. The above mentioned undertaking further spawned an interest for the discipline of Latin Ballroom which lead to participation at the national level. The unwavering focus and persistence even in the face of unfavorable odds is more broadly reflective of my approach towards learning, both academic and extracurricular. This has been instrumental in achieving stellar academic outcomes including being ranked nationally in the top 0.0004 percent in the premedical test and the top 0.6 percent in the common aptitude test for management training.

For as long as I could remember, I have seen my father rushing to the hospital in a white coat, answering pagers in the middle of important family conversations and attending night calls even in the most terrible weather. I had always wondered; what could be so important that it belittles every other responsibility in his life. It was only after many years of anguish and protests that it finally made sense to me. This defining moment of realization occurred when I first met a patient in his office. I saw how the gratitude in the patient’s eyes can provide a sense of fulfillment that triumphs all other feelings in the universe. It was human life that was most important. Being a doctor does not make you a mere healer but also gives you the responsibility of a caregiver. I had never felt more proud of my father and that was the day I felt the urge to relive this feeling many times over. It was there in that moment that I decided to pursue a career in medicine.

Along with being a biologist, I envision the future me as a pediatric or trauma doctor. Not only do I love learning about how each cell in the human body works, but I want to implement that knowledge in helping others around the world. Along with biology, I am taking anatomy and physiology to pursue my interest in human biology. Choosing my program of interest—medicine—was an effortless decision due to the fact that ever since I was a kid, I have always aspired to be like my pediatrician: always there to treat patients with compassion. Being able to grow up and assist kids who are in need of help has always been a goal of mine, and being able to do so in the emergency department would allow me to give a faster and hands on solution to ailments right in the moment. Science in general is something I am immensely passionate about, in particular biology and being able to learn all the aspects of the human body, and I strive for the day that I graduate with a master’s degree in biology and medical

    Ever since my childhood, I have always found medicine to be intriguing. My interest first sparked when I learned about my cousin’s, Austin, illness. Austin was born nearly four months early and was diagnosed with an underdeveloped trachea and COPD. Within Austin’s first moments of life, doctors had to perform a tracheotomy. As I observed my cousin’s suffering over the years, my desire to help others was ignited. Since then, my will to help people has only grown immensely. From playing doctor to caring for my family when they are sick, my caring nature and love to help people has always been evident. All I want is the ability to help others and to make a difference. Now, my cousin has miraculously lived

Growing up, people would always ask "what do you want to be when you grow up?" as a young child my answer was always “a princess”. Eventually, I realized this dream of mine was unrealistic and began to lean towards a profession in the medical field. The world of medicine enthralled me, even as a child. Flash-forward to senior year of high school where the most common question asked became “where are you thinking of going to college?” As time went on, I had a solid idea of what school I wanted to attend in the fall. When I was accepted to all of my top choices, the decision became a challenge. Strangely enough, Xavier University of Louisiana was the last school I applied to. In fact, it was nowhere on my radar until I did my research.

The desire to attend medical school should be one that is carefully planned out to ensure it is truly the right path; I believe this since medical school is something that requires many extra years of dedication and determination to complete. If one does not fully understand what they are embarking on might find out too late that becoming a physician was the wrong path for them. To ensure that applying to medical school was the right choice for me, I took the long road while developing a strong work ethic along the way.

If someone told me just five years ago when I was in high school that I would be going to one of the best colleges in New Jersey and taking classes in an effort to go to medical school, I would've said they were crazy. In fact, I'm not, nor have I ever been the student with a 4.0 GPA or near perfect standardized test scores. As a future candidate to medical school, I feel that this Research Associates Program will aid in my journey to becoming a doctor, by virtue of working with other people, interacting with patients, gathering data, and understanding how to accurately obtain valuable data.

I know the aspect of medicine I find most interesting: academic medicine. Stanford is one of the few schools that immediately facilitates my career goals by providing knowledge, tools, and access to world class faculty.

Going to a medical school in Cairo, Egypt, shaped my mindset and helped me see things from a different prospective. During my clinical training I served a poor and uninsured population. I saw people who were suffering and dying every day from preventable diseases due to lack of resources and health services. This made me understand the humanitarian nature of our profession. I knew that I had a responsibility to fulfill.

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My grandfather had rheumatoid arthritis. I vividly remember reaching up for the handles of his wheelchair and playing with his crooked fingers or knobby toes. As a three-year-old on his lap, I would be so overcome with curiosity and the fascination of examining his knuckles that he used to tell my grandmother I was his “baby doctor”. Of course I never understood the seriousness of the disease, or the toll it took on his quality of life until years later, when I found myself reading case studies in an anatomy textbook. Time passed, and so did my grandfather, but the allure of science and medicine for me grew swiftly. As an excited ten-year-old, when I single-handedly built my first functional crystal radio, I obviously thought it was the coolest thing ever. I had to update

I have seen what a losing a brother can do to a family. It is even more traumatic when you’re within that family and the brother who you never met could have been saved as it was a treatable infectious disease. Living outside of the capital city if Ethiopia without adequate access to physicians, I understood the reality of necessary access to medical care. This is why I am applying to your internal medicine residency. I want to help those who need it with advanced techniques and a complete understanding of this profession, saving lives which would unnecessarily be lost otherwise.

There are moments in life that hold you to a higher standard. Amid the practiced perfection with which we navigate the majority of tasks, there are times that demand and draw on abilities that we were yet to realize. It is in both music and medicine that I have discovered this challenge. My love for internal medicine began in its consistent need for adaptability. Just as the change in one note can alter the tone of a musical piece, similarly, one pertinent piece of information can shift the diagnosis entirely and it is through the interpretation of these subtle clues that my interest in the diagnostic process arose.

Growing up, I always felt a shiver go up my spine whenever I had to visit my doctor. Oddly enough, I still preferred doctors to dentists so in that regard I was not completely baffled when I first decided I wanted to become a physician. As an undergraduate, I found myself constantly switching between careers until finally coming down to two choices: scientist or veterinarian. However, the idea of being stuck in a lab with little interaction with the world or being unable to communicate with my patients never agreed with me. I wanted to enter a profession that allowed me to work with others on an interpersonal level and apply my knowledge of science, culture, and social relationships in order to enhance the lives of those around me. Unable of coming to a decision, I continued pursuing my love for science never once believing my fascination with science and medicine would lead me along this path. The catalysts for this change in my life’s trajectory were the events of the 2011 Arab Spring and the countless hours spent collecting and packing pages of listed medical supplies, medications, and equipment that were needed. What I discovered through my months of involvement was a love for helping others in need and a profession that allowed me to do so while actively engaging my mind and body to act in the aid of others.