My Personal Statement On Science Of Human Body

There I stood in the examination room confident, inquisitive, and elated to meet the great optometrist Dr. Dewey Handy. As he entered the room, he spoke with a pleasant tone “ Hello, what can I do for you today? ”. I eagerly responded, “Dr. Martin, MD encouraged me to come speak with you about gaining shadowing experience and working as an optometrist assistant. Of course, his response was, “do you have any knowledge about the field of optometry?” I confidently responded, “Very little, but I would like to explore this area to see if it would be the career path for me. Dr. Handy gracefully sat in his chair and began to explain to me his primary focus, responsibilities, and the life style of an optometrist. To conclude our conversation, he cheerfully allowed me to shadow him along with the other optometrist. While observing Dr. Handy, I notice how he leads his team by maintaining a professional persona, properly communicating with patients, and expressing strong analytical thinking skills. These superior skills contribute to the success of his private practice and inspire me to pursue a rewarding career in optometry.

What began as mere admiration for my childhood optometrist quickly evolved into a fervent aspiration when I began working as an optometric technician at Eye & Vision Care. Having been myopic since the age of 6, I have always had an interest in the inner workings of the eye and decided to apply to this job, without any concrete career plans in mind.

That is, to be able to work alongside those who are as passionate as I am when it comes to performing tasks at hand. These team of professional in this week’s clinical rotation not only displayed their passion, but also their devotion in their respective field. Furthermore, each showed professionalism, working cohesively with each team members even during the tough and stressful stretch of the operation. Therefore, observations such as this clinical, allowed me to experience first hand the working relationship between various professions in the healthcare filed and enabled me to obtain a greater perspective on the roles that nurses fill. So, when I finally make it out of nursing school and gets the chance to work with these so called maestros, I would be fully confident that I am in tune while honing my

You have the opportunity to make swift decisions, learn each day and never get bored, as each day is different.other hospital staff and For me the most enduring part of the field will be to have a positive effect on people’s daily

I have also come to realize that this particular practice focuses more on disease and disease prevention juxtaposed to only offering refractions and other optical solutions. This type of practice is what interests me most in the field of optometry. Having extensive experience in the health field, namely the field of pharmacy, I was unsatisfied with the level of patient interaction and patient care a pharmacist can convey toward his/her patients. I understand the field of pharmacy is more complex than that of a local practice and that I may have been in a particular situation, but I wanted to have more of a connection with those in need. Being able to see patients at the clinic progress through treatment is what drew me even closer to the field after I started observing. I know the field of optometry can give me the opportunity to have a direct effect on patients and their ocular health. Which is why I have never wanted anything more for myself then to have the chance to become an

Too develop my understanding of how other professionals work, I will focus on IPL group work and listen to others perspectives. During future clinical placements I will try and spend time with other professions and see how they

“Working in a Hospital everyday is a new situation, so it keeps you on your feet.You don’t know what type of patient you may come across everyday.You interact with patients daily and give them their medication a certain time according to the medication. Other tasks involve you giving the patient's chart to the doctors. Sometimes when I go with the doctors on their rounds, i have the opportunity to counsel the patients about recommended course of

The first time I was first exposed to the overwhelming benefits of Optometric medicine was when I was 17 years old. It was the summer of 2011 and I was going to be a senior in high school. I decided to shadow my Optometrist, Dr. Lobe, for a senior project. Before shadowing, I knew that the Optometrist was a person I went once a year to get my eyes checked. I loved seeing my eye doctor and getting my eyes dilated, I would go back to school bragging to all my friends and educating them about why my pupils were dilated and the benefits of seeing an Optometrist. During the 40 hours I spent shadowing, my younger sister, Madison, who was 12 at the time, was seeing Dr. Lobe for accommodation problems. She had just started middle school and was doing poorly on the standardized tests in her classes. While on a routine eye exam, Dr. Lobe discovered that she was having difficulties focusing on small print. That summer I spend shadowing, I worked both in the office and at home with Madison. I helped her train and strengthen her eye muscles with the exercises Dr. Lobe prescribed to her.

Backing all great physicians are a group of highly trained and dedicated individuals ranging from scribes to nurses. A student doctor must understand that working in groups is not just a skill needed to succeed in undergraduate school, but it is also a skill that is critical to becoming a good physician. During my times as a medical scribe in the ER, I have been present during several codes and I have witnessed the importance of group work firsthand. On several occasions, in fact, I have found myself as an important member of a patient’s care team. As a VCOM student doctor, I will continue to keep the critical principle in mind. Whether it is something as simple as studying for an exam or something as important as saving a coding patient, I will always make sure to work well with others and play my part as best as I

As a child, I was fueled by curiosity to crack open computers and examine each piece to diagnose their individual contributions to the overall system. Driven by the same inquisitive character, I was drawn to the intricacies of the human body which shared many similarities with these complex machines. My thirst for further understanding of the human body and desire to translate my initial interest into an opportunity to improve the lives of those around me began my journey into medicine.

At a time when it was popular practice for kids growing up in my country to aspire to become doctors, lawyers and engineers, for no rational reasons owing to naiveté that comes with such tender ages, I had known I wanted to save lives. I just didn’t know in what capacity it would be. I can safely say that I grew up faster than most children my age, I had known what it meant to lose a father at six, I had seen an aunt die of what they said was cancer at ten. I had also known the frustration of not being able to do anything to save both. And of course, I couldn’t have. I am a grown man now, equipped with the rationality that comes with education, and most importantly the informed will to save the world. And I have found an important tool in Medical Physics.

I have always been interested in science and the way things work. My interest in the medical field started by the time I was in kindergarten. However, I was interested in being a veterinarian at that point in my life. I loved and still do love animals, but changed to wanting to be a human nurse when I was in middle school. I would always go to appointments with my grandparents and parents when I was younger. Watching blood work being taken and the way a doctor would contort an MRI always sparked an interest in me.

Since early childhood, I have been fascinated by the complexity of the human body. The curiosity for its functioning and potential dysfunction led me to medical school and allowed me to successfully complete my training at the University of Brescia In Italy; far away from my family, fending for myself, learning a different language, living in a different culture and studying without help.

Thinking into the future, as a Doctor of Optometry I expect that my knowledge and skills regarding the field of Optometry are exemplary and that I can treat my patients with confidence and assurance in my abilities. Upon completion of the Doctor of Optometry program I would like to pursue a residency in ocular disease and primary care. I believe that pursuing a residency, will enrich and add to my knowledge gained during my four year doctorate program. I will be able to practice with more specialized skills and prowess. There is a great prevalence of ocular diseases amongst the current population and that will only increase as the years’ progress. I want to be a dynamic optometrist, where I can make a meaningful contribution in my profession, by treating my patients and contributing in research. Research is something which is vital to any profession and I would like to pursue that in the coming years, by writing in Journal articles or publications.

patient care. As a strong spirited individual I recognize the aspiration to help others in myself