Pharmacist Personal Statement

Everyone desires to feel loved, valued, and appreciated. A career in pharmacy opens a door into the lives of other to make a difference. My intentions, now and as a pharmacist, ensures the value of each person by offering quality patient, guiding them with healthy lifestyle choices, and respecting each individual. Being a pharmacists offers a chance to care for those in need. Opportunities to brighten some one’s day with a listening ear or a smile comes occurs on a daily basis. One of my favorite quotes whose author is unknown, states that a smile can change to world. ‘’Let your smile change the world, but don’t let the world change your smile.’’-Unknown

From there, I began to explore more of what a career in pharmacy would mean and take the steps necessary to pursue my dream. As I reflect on the past and look forward, becoming a Doctor of Pharmacy is still the clear answer to achieving both my immediate and long-term goals. My immediate goal is to work towards additional education to be better equipped to utilize my undergraduate degree. In particular, I have a strong interest in applying my knowledge of biochemistry to the area of pharmacy in order to better understand how different medications work, how to help patients understand their medications, and how to solve problems to better care for patients. Ultimately, through achieving a Doctor of Pharmacy degree, I desire to develop a meaningful career that would allow for life-long learning and impacting lives.

Growing up in a family where my father worked as a pharmacist with both my older sister and older brother selecting pharmacy as their profession, I would be lying if I said that this did not serve to influence my decision-making in any form or shape. It was not until my freshman year of high school when I chose to volunteer at my aunt’s independently-owned pharmacy that formally opened its doors for business that I began to seriously consider my future profession. Initially, because business was severely slow and lacking, I did not find much interest in the field of pharmacy as I was primarily spending my time setting up equipment, organizing the store, and moving boxes around among others. It was not until a few years later when the business started picking up steam and more customers began to file in that allowed me to further interact with more people and consequently, increase the variety of drug medications that the pharmacy had in stock. In turn, this presented me an opportunity to familiarize myself with drug names such as Amlodipine, Gabapentin, Lorazepam, Metformin, and many more. Admittedly, even just seeing and holding the manufacture’s bottle in my hand sparked great interest in myself at that time. I was simply fascinated by the different drugs and found the role of a pharmacist to encompass much more than “dispensing medications.”

I believe there are many different ways in which a person such as myself can make a contribution to society, the only problem is finding the path that suits you, and after all we are all different and desire different things. I want to study pharmacology because it appeals to me in many ways, throughout my high school years science always kept me interested and eager to learn more. The prospect of studying how certain drugs affect our bodies and exploring the physical and behavioural effects on both the mind and body fascinates me. All the time there is a story on the news about drug abuse and drug-related deaths. The environment in which we live in promotes the use of painkillers for our normal every day issues such as the common cold or a headache.

When I began my journey through college, I was unsure about where my love and respect for science and healthcare would take me, but I knew that I wanted to take those two interests and apply them with the personal fulfillment I felt when it came to helping others. It was not until I began to have health issues, that I became sound in my decision to pursue the path of pharmacy. Being on the receiving end of treatments, made me have a drastic change in the mindset of how I thought about the healthcare of a patient and how I would apply my science knowledge to my future pursuits. When learning about diseases, illnesses, and deficiencies I would always find myself drifting towards trying to develop a plan of action on what could be given to a person suffering and how a person’s treatment could be optimized.

During the Chemistry courses I have found the practical work to be most enjoyable. Before choosing to go into pharmacy I wanted to know what the pharmacist actually do. I spoke to my local pharmacist and asked him about his experience of being a pharmacist. What he told me was interesting and seemed like a satisfying career choice, also pharmacy combines mathematics and science which I both have an interest in.

I would want to study in the UK because I would like to get out and explore different parts of the world. In the states, you are told that you’re in the greatest country, well I want to see if that is true and what better place to start than the United Kingdom and learn about your culture, customs, and history while study my major in your country. And I’ve been to a lot of the U.S I feel I know it already. I want to explore and build a new home and foundation in a foreign land where I must start over and build new connection and start from the bottom and work my way up. I am in the United states so English isn’t an issue that I have to concern with and I’ve taken four years of U.S English courses in high school. Want to study in the UK because there is better for me to learn outside a comfortable environment.

As a freshman at St. Louis College of Pharmacy and a first year college student, thinking about my pathway for school and my career is something that I have been nudged into thinking deeply about. Throughout my high school career I always knew that I wanted to be a part of the health care system and decided to become a pharmacist. As a pharmacist, I will be able to personally help people with their medications and assist them by educating them on how to use their medications and recommend other medications that may be more effective. In order to become a successful pharmacist, I will need to set clear goals for myself to follow in both my education and career.

My interest in the pharmaceutical profession originated due to a personal experience, which was a turning point in my life. In 2008 I was diagnosed with a generalized anxiety disorder which affected my ability to perform at my best in school and college for several years. As a young teenager I had a hard time coping with the new environment after moving to the United States from Armenia at age of 12. After seeing a psychologist and taking medications that helped me cure my depression, I understood how life changing they can be. I decided that I want to be that person who can offer his help and cure others.

I believe I am qualified to receive TSHP scholarship because I am exceptionally motivated in my pursuit of pharmacy as a career. As a high school student, I shadowed pharmacists at a local retail pharmacy and earned my pharmacy technician license when I was eighteen. From this experience, I learned how vital pharmacist are to patient health by often being a patient’s first point of contact with a health care professional. Seeing the significant positive impact pharmacists can have on patient health motivated me to pursue pharmacy as a career. The prospect of pharmacy school in high school and undergraduate kept me focused and driven enough to earn acceptance into pharmacy school after just two years of university. By joining

In selecting a career, every person follows certain drives, justifications, and guidelines. A variety of factors influenced my choice of pharmacy as a career. Having observed countless drug-drug and drug-body interactions, volunteering as a pharmacy technician and in different positions in healthcare, I was able to see the impact pharmacists have on patient lives and the mutual love they have for their patients. I was pleased to see the effect pharmacists have on the quality of care their patients receive. My lifelong goal was to find a career that would allow me to work directly with the public and make a difference.

The year 2002 was a year full of new beginnings for my family and I. I was ten years old, my youngest brother was born in February, and we moved away from Tennessee, and our family there, to Texas in October. Little did I know, the birth of my brother nor the move were going to be as significant as the next event that occurred.

As a student new to South Dakota State University College of Pharmacy, my interview with Dr. Evink, the President of the Iowa Pharmacy Association, was very insightful and really got me to think as the profession of pharmacy differently as a whole. Throughout her career as a pharmacist she has accomplished many things before becoming the President of the Iowa Pharmacy Association, such as creating the Young Pharmacist Leadership Association, was the Speaker of the House in Iowa’s Pharmacy Association, and even had a role in creating OutcomesMTM. Hearing that she had a part in creating the OutcomesMTM program was surprising, because back when I worked at Hy-Vee’s Pharmacy we participated in that program. I found that inspiring how someone in our

Over the past few weeks I have been researching my interests, values, and goals. Throughout this research a lot of things that were already evident to me, were proven for a fact. My interests included researching different aspects of science and data analysis. Analysis has always been a big part of my life because I analyze everything. My values have been proven to be centered toward helping people and being around people. These interests and values are almost equivalent with what my goals in life have been over the past years. For the past few years I have wanted to become some type of pharmacist or physician. In this paper, I have researched what being a pharmacist and physician

The career that I am interested in pursuing is a Pharmacists. The number one reason I have decided to become a pharmacist is because I want to help and assist others. The satisfaction of me helping a patient get better quickly is the motivation that drives me. The second reason is the act of working with other health care professionals. Pharmacist have to communicate with other professionals as a team to avoid errors. Communication and connection is a major key in today’s society, in which I like with a passion. The big career dream began when my older cousin sister became the first in the family to graduate from college with a college degree. Her getting a well-paying job and taking care of my aunt and uncle led me to work hard and achieve pharmacy just like her. HCC will help me pursue my goals by helping me get high grades and achieve a high GPA. By me getting an Associates in Science I would then transfer to a big university like University of Houston to continue for higher education.