Pulmonary Personal Statement

I chose this career because the study of medicine has always interested me, and I know I want to benefit people's health.

My upbringing combined with my rigorous academic pursuits and AROTC training has bestowed upon me many qualities that would benefit KU School of Medicine. Both ROTC and the pre-medicine discipline are demanding fields and balancing them has required me to be tenacious and a strong leader who can adapt to everyday's unique needs. The constant relocation of my childhood has taught me to adaptability; a strength that has only grown through military training and my studies. Balancing the two presented many challenges and if hardship teaches anything, it is tenacity. I have been tested both physically and mentally and achieved much as an undergraduate. I look forward to facing new challenges in my future and pushing to greater heights. I've also developed a strong leadership persona. I have learned through experience that I possess charismatic leadership, which naturally draws others to me and gives me the opportunity to inspire and motivate them. I look forward to sharing these with KU.

The lungs are the only internal organs that are exposed to the external environment and are vulnerable to a variety of ailments. Fibrosis is a general term referring to a disease involving the scarring of the lungs (The air sacs in the lungs gradually become replaced by scar). The scarring of the tissue caused air sacs to become thick and make the patient much harder to breathe. When the scar tissue has been formed, it can not be removed surgically repaired completely with medication.

Getting into Adelphi University Graduate program will give me the opportunity to engage in promoting an optimal standard of care for patients and the community. Being Alumni at Adelphi University I know how helpful, caring and passionate all the professors and faculty staff are. I

I see myself practicing medicine in an area with underserved populations, due to my experiences working with these groups at AIMMC and Friedman Place. Also, each specialty I observed during my shadowing internship further ignited my passion for medicine, and I see myself learning and growing in my chosen specialty. Lastly, traveling with my parents to Russia to adopt my sister showed me the health disparities around the world; therefore, I hope to be improving global health as a Geffen

By entering this program, I hope to acquire this deeper understanding by pursuing a degree complementary to my specialty and gain crucial experience as a PhD to thrive as a scientist. I believe my foundation in research, academic performance, and motivation to enter the field of medicine make me a strong candidate for admission as a MD/PhD student, and I hope to use these degrees together to serve the scientific community in ways I could not by choosing just one. It would be my purpose as a researcher to contribute to our understanding of the human body and my purpose as a physician to bring a higher level of care to as many patients as possible, both present and

The program will guide me to employ compassion, integrity, and interdisciplinary knowledge as a physician. By leveraging the knowledge from the Columbia-Bassett program, I will be better prepared to catalyze meaningful change for the modern healthcare

One’s path in life is guided by a series of choices. Making the right choice can be life-changing. Obstacles can be viewed as barriers but they often open doors to opportunity. Throughout my life I have had many surgeries, medical problems, and injuries that have helped mold me into the strong, compassionate person I am today. I have had the opportunity to meet many healthcare workers along the way that have shared their knowledge and goals. This has given me a passion to work in healthcare providing all people the same empathy and medical expertise that I have been shown. Though I am unsure what specific field I will pursue, any career in healthcare will allow me the chance to interact with people of all races and backgrounds. The College

Desperately, my eyes search for light. My ears craving the sound of life, activity, even the mice scurry away from me. I am currently spending my first day in the heart of this ‘correctional facility’ as they say. I am sitting in an eternity of darkness and silence. The Warden can’t be serious about this, I’m sure any minute he;’s going to clarify what Tommy said about that hell forsaken inmate of his killing my wife. He has to believe me. After all I’ve done for him, he needs to just consider it. My lungs are craving the fresh air, the musty, damp cell is slowly suffocating me.

I look back at the personal statement I wrote when applying to undergraduate studies and feel the passion and excitement I had for a fascinating career that would allow me to serve my community; I was determined to pave my path in the medical field. Five years later, I realize I am still that driven, motivated and passionate student prepared to excel, but I now have a stronger sense of which career in medicine best suits me and will allow me to succeed. While still holding the fundamental values of providing for those in need and being part of a field that fascinates me, my answer to “Why do you want to be a Physician Assistant?” now entails more than the generic notion of wanting to help others. My experiences at Clinica Tepati, Dr. Gupta’s

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, also known as COPD, is a disease affecting the respiratory system that causes obstructed airflow from the lungs. It is caused by long-term exposure to irritating gasses, with cigarette smoke being the most common cause. Contributing factors of COPD include emphysema, a condition where the alveoli at the end of the bronchioles are destroyed as a result of exposure to irritating gasses, and chronic bronchitis, which is an inflammation of the bronchial tubes, which carry air to and from the alveoli. As well, those who develop COPD are at a higher risk for heart disease, lung cancer, and various other conditions than those without the disease.

My heart started pounding against my chest, trying to escape and find a healthy pair of lungs, because mine it seemed had been replaced with those of a six-year-old girl. My mouth grew cold and dry as if the air around me was on the brink of snow. I desperately tried to tell my brain that everything was fine and that there's no need to panic. But my brain ignored me, as it had done many times before, and ordered by organs to keep fighting the against the danger to come. My head never seems to listen to me.

My desire to study medicine stems from my determination to make a difference to people's lives, where I am the decision maker. Medicine would allow me to integrate my academic interest for science into a public sector framework where I can meet different people everyday. My passion for science has been developed by learning different modules at school like 'Health and Disease' in Biology. Seeing how just a small deposit of plaque in the coronary artery walls could lead to atherosclerosis and eventually death if untreated, has highlighted the subtle nature of the body to me.

3. My proposed community based pulmonary rehabilitation program will employ some of the cognitive learning theories such as Gagne information processing, Piaget’s cognitive development and Vygotsky developmental theories. Gagne’s information processing theories which works on the principles of thought, reasoning, how the information is stored and memory functioning (Bastable, Gramet, Jacobs, & Sopczyk, 2010) will help with new learning and re-learning information. Piaget’s Cognitive development theory will apply because health educators must know what their patients are perceiving and thinking about their current health condition. Similarly, educators need to know what stage their patients are in to guide their learning(Bastable et al., 2011).

In my clinical experience this semester, I had the opportunity of working on a pulmonary unit. I was able to teach a patient about the medications they were currently taking. The patient was about received an intravenous dose of Hydralazine. The patient did not know what the medication was and what some of the side effects of the medication. I had explained to the patient that the medication was to treat high blood pressure. I explained that some of the side effects of Hydralazine are dizziness or decreased blood pressure (hypotension). I explained to the patient that I would be taking their blood pressure prior to and after the administration of the medication. I informed the patient to not get up and walk without the nurse or I being in the