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Pathology Personal Statement

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I first realized pathology would be an interesting and worthwhile career for me when I attended my first autopsy conference at Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This was during the summer of my first year at Drexel University College of Medicine and I was already curious. I was impressed with the overwhelming curiosity and interest of the attendants. They gathered around the dissected organs asking detailed questions, making observations, and discussing theories and ideas about the former patient. I found the entire event quite stimulating and I participated in several other pathology conferences and sign-outs during that summer and the following year. I feel the most interesting part of pathology is the data gathering, the technology and techniques …show more content…

I am also interested in the sharing of that information with colleagues. All of this, of course if for the betterment of the patient. My time at the Department of Pathology at Hahnemann helped me choose the career of Pathologist. I have been interested in science for a long time. I enjoy solving problems and both the gross and detailed work involved with unravelling those problems. I am drawn by the concrete and the binary nature of the work. I have developed a taste for this work over many years, starting with my time in the military. I worked in a lab on a submarine evaluating reactor coolant chemistry and monitoring the crew’s exposure to radiation. We used a variety of chemical assays and worked with radioactive and hazardous material, often under less than optimal circumstances. After the military I completed my degree in microbiology and did research on vibrio bacteria at University of California Irvine. This work consisted of DNA extraction,

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