Personal Statement: Future Health Professionals

The invaluable skills that I have gained and learned through my after school clubs, Future Business Leaders of America, (FBLA) and National Honor Society( NHS), has stirred up a desire in me to help my community and to make a difference in the lives of people, by majoring in the Public Health field. Through Public Health, I will help those in my community at large to live healthy lives; mentally, socially, physically and culturally. Healthcare is an essential need in life and is a great field that would allow me to make a difference.

Most six-year-olds have dreams of becoming a ballerina or an astronaut, not me, I have known since I was in kindergarten that I want to be a doctor and help the people around me. I joined HOSA-Future Health Professionals my freshman year to gain insight and knowledge towards a potential career in the healthcare industry although I was unaware of the opportunities that I would now be able to experience and growth that would now be possible for myself. Looking back on the years since joining HOSA, I have watched myself grow as a leader who continues to learn more every day about better ways to serve those around me. By the end of my first State conference freshman year, I knew I wanted to become more involved in HOSA-Future Health Professionals and someday run for State Office. When I joined HOSA, I viewed the state officers as role models for their love for HOSA and desire to serve the members. Here I am three years later, going after a goal I set for myself as a timid freshman, hopeful that each of these qualities I saw in these state officers are a few of the qualities that people will see in me every day.

1. Briefly describe the one clinical experience you have had that has most significantly influenced your decision to study medicine. Do not replicate your AMCAS personal statement.

Students decide to pursue health careers in college, but it can be hard to know what is needed to achieve this goal. There are also a great variety of careers included in the health field and each job has different roles and requirements so it can be difficult to know which job you want to pursue. One important aspect of the UC Davis Pre-Health Conference is the large amount of information and resources provided to students in relation to the career they choose to pursue in health.

I have been very involved in HOSA (Future Health Professionals) which has allowed me to discover and pursue my interest in the medical field. HOSA has health career competitions, where I was able to compete at the state level in Sports Medicine, win 2nd Place in state level Pathophysiology and compete internationally in Pathophysiology. At HOSA conferences I have gotten to meet professionals and learn more about their fields, ranging from cardiothoracic surgery to chiropractic medicine. HOSA has influenced my future in a way that inspired me to help others pursue their interest in the medical field because of that I became the VP of Service. As VP of Service, I lead volunteer activities including the school blood drive and decorating the Northeast

While in nursing school my group was selected to do a presentation about the African American culture. I wanted to be the leader of the presentation. When we all got together I had everyone discuss what information needed to be gathered, what resources we would use, and how we would present it. I assigned my group members roles on what parts they had to do and encouraged them to help one another out if someone was unable to find any information about their section. Over the weeks I would make sure and send out emails that consisted of additional ideas the group had, information that could be useful for the presentation, and followed up with everyone. Before we were going to present I set up group meetings so that we could organize the presentation

My ambitions of entering the medical field was unfruitful when I realized that biology was not something that I enjoyed. I decided to focus on health care which is facing public policy issues that need to resolve in order to deliver better health care systems.

My interest began in healthcare and science at a young age of around 22 years. I became interested in healthcare because of my curiosity and fascination with how the human body functions. I found myself seeking a gratifying career that would make a sustained positive difference in people’s lives. My first healthcare position was as a surgical technologist. I later obtained my associate's degree as a registered nurse through an online program approved in California.

Nobody in my group except Luke impressed me, Luke look charge and formulated all of our opinions into a concise presentation. I don’t think any other groups changed my mind on the topics because the majority of groups just threw around statistics and had no logic behind their opinions and many

This spring, I will become the first person in my generation to graduate from a four year institution. Coming from a small high school class of only forty students, college has presented me with many more responsibilities, and countless opportunities. An opportunity to set an example for my four younger siblings, and also a chance to pursue a career for myself. With education being so vital, a higher education is something that I deeply valued and sought to attain. Going into college, I was certain that I wanted a career in healthcare, however I was undecided about where.

I have always been interested in the healthcare profession, and as I got older I fully understood and admired what it meant to be in this field. The fact that I will be able to work with a large variety of people and help them directly has always drawn me to healthcare. The idea that I will be responsible for people physically getting better and witnessing it at the same time is beautiful, and there is truly no better joy. I have always enjoyed science class as well, and when I entered high school I began to take medical classes at Ben Barber Academy. Every year I made sure to further my knowledge in the field and every year I fell even more in love with it. Throughout high school I have taken CPR and first aid classes, pathophysiology, anatomy,

My interest in healthcare, began when I was old enough to recognize my career options. While most kids were talking about being rock stars and movie stars, I pretty much had my goal set. I just wanted to help people. This is mainly due to the fact that most of the women who have raised me are all medical professionals. Their experience as black women in the medical field has served as a lesson and has built my character and inspiration for my goals. Because of my mother’s career as a nurse was and still is demanding, I became independent at an early age. This independence planted my strong interest in the healthcare industry.

As an Arab-American and former Iraqi refugee, I believe I have a unique view on health care. Witnessing my physician father at work in Iraq and working closely with physicians as a scribe in the U.S. have allowed me to integrate two different approaches to medicine into one unified view. In times of war, few resources are available to patients other than the comforting presence of a physician, while health care in the U.S. is equipped with readily available resources and research. Having experienced both settings enables me to understand the two sides of medicine: to utilize the gifts of modern science, but never forget the power of compassion. Due to my displacements as a refugee I have had to change schools every academic year starting from seventh grade until college.

I currently work as a medical scribe in the emergency department at Ochsner Hospital. I started working during the spring semester of my last year at Xavier. After the hiring process, I had two months of intense classroom and clinical training. I learned many medical terminology, medications, EKG, how to use electronic medical records and how to write an HPI. Working side by side with doctors in the emergency room on a 12 hours shift gave me an amazing in person medical experience that I will be able to apply to my classes and career as a physician. I have become familiar with many ED physicians medical decision making process, different types of drugs, illness, and various patient cases. There were also other small duties to help of the ED

Database management system is used in many fields, and especially important in the environment where a lot of information needs to be collected and organized. For example, in hospital, the information about patients was diverse: name, date of birth, medical history, symptoms, treatments and etc. In order to deal with the huge information, health information technician is the important job to organize and manage health information data in hospital or other health care department. The capacity of using database software was necessary for health information technicians. Apart from these, they also need to have the knowledge about medical science and biology, so that they can communicate with professionals about patients’ information. The job is so attractive to me, not only because it is a relatively stable work, but also because it is closely relative to my major (Bio-chemistry) and minor (Information system). In order to know more about this field of work, I chatted with a friend Young who worked as an information technician in hospital. She recalled the interview she experienced and talked a lot about the interview criteria and experience of her job, including the skill of information system she need to use during work. In the following sections, each of the details would be discussed.