SMEDEP Statement

They serve as pillars of wisdom and guidance while exhibiting communication adroitness with care teams and patients to engineer top-notch medical care. To maintain high standards, effective medical professionals are constantly taking in new information through continuing education, placing providers at the pinnacle of knowledge. Moreover, physicians require affective aptitude as they must convey empathy during patient interactions. All these attributes draw me to seek the personal challenge and resulting responsibilities that are demanded. I desire to become an important contribution to society in a field I am passionate

My interest in medicine first stemmed from my freshman Biology class and my Nutrition class. I was intrigued by our studies of cells, genetics, and disease. Both courses incited a sense of awe and curiosity within me. Dissecting a frog, was the stepping-stone for my interest in medicine. Seeing the frog's heart made me wonder how the human heart worked. My research into the human heart inspired me to learn more about the medical field. I sought out volunteer opportunities that would give me insight into a doctor’s typical day. During my volunteer experience, I learned that as a doctor you experience many obstacles, including patient compliance and insurance approval issues. In my journey to pursue medicine, I learned that becoming a doctor means more than helping people, it means being the team leader, being compassionate, and most importantly being committed to the patient’s well being.

The medical field is a career path that brings about many options and opportunities of great value. The noble idea of being a doctor tends to cloud the diligent studying and precise training that is actually required for this career. I have wanted to become a doctor since a very young age, and now that the opportunity is here for the taking, I have fully researched what it takes to succeed in this profession and various specialties of the practice. The road to a medical degree is one filled with thousands of notes, years of schooling, and many stressful nights, but the reward is one incomparable to any other. Saving people’s lives on a day-to-day basis has been one of my dreams for as long as I can remember, so the rigorous curriculum

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

Growing up I seen my mom, aunts, uncles and grandfather struggle with the death of my grandmother. Everyday there was a new struggle whether it was getting up to go to work or eat. My grandmother died of breast cancer at the age of fifty two, it devastated my family. The question asked “Is why do I want to go into the medical field?” I want to go into the medical field because I want to be able to make a difference in this world. I want to do research to cure chronic diseases, I want to be able to tell a family that everything will be alright, and I want to be able to save a family the devastation that my family felt.

The following words by Aristotle, “Whole is greater than the sum of its parts”, resonate deeply with my personality. As a human and future physician, I believe one must learn to look at the whole picture of any situation instead of dwelling on certain parts. Since the age of seven, I have been attracted to the field of osteopathy. I grew up in a small town, where there were not a lot of doctors in the area. Whenever I went to visit a doctor there was at least one to two hour wait. While waiting for the doctor, I noticed how people’s facial expression and muscle would slightly relax after visiting the doctor’s office, even if it was for less than five minutes. Even though not all patients received good news, they seemed a bit relaxed after knowing what their next step of treatment will be. As long as I can remember I wanted to be the reason behind someone’s relaxed face or smile by providing everything possible within my power.

I have been able to see the joy on a child’s face when they finally make a shot, the joy on their face when they learn how and when to cross the street, and the joy on their face when they realize that they have the potential to be anything they want to be in life. Being able to watch this all happen has allowed me to realize that I want to see these kinds of amazing reactions every day for the rest of my life. On top of this, I want to be the one to allow them to have this reaction. To me, it is the best feeling in the world when I know that I have helped someone do something they felt they couldn’t do before. This being said, my volunteer work has persuaded me into the direction of the medical field. I feel this has happened because the medical field gives me an enormous variety of ways to impact lives

I have seen many aspects of medicine than i feel many people my age have. I understand how it feels to be comforted by a friendly smile and confidence from a doctor. My family history is what sparked my interest in medicine at a young age and my recent interactions with doctors has kept it alive.

I’ve learnt that being a doctor is about so much more than administering drugs. At its peak, being a doctor is about communication and compassion. I love working with people and I love science, and the more exposure I get to medicine the more confident I feel that despite its hurdles and sacrifices, there is no other career that would grant me as much fulfilment as

My whole life I have wanted to fulfill my goal of becoming a doctor. I have worked hard to immerse myself in anything vastly medical related such as volunteering at my local hospital, joining a teen health careers club, and shadowing doctors and nurses. All of these things, I believe, have allowed me to broaden my knowledge on passion for medicine. In addition, I

As a dedicated father, volunteer, and mechanical engineer, I have always had an appreciation for science. For five years I have enjoyed it as an integral part of my profession. However, I often found myself asking whether or not I was performing the most meaningful and fulfilling work that I was capable of. Over the years, my wife and I would have discussions about what we genuinely wanted to do with our lives. We slowly grew to recognize that medicine is the best profession in which we could use our skills to the fullest, working with people to help people, while providing a service to communities in need.

My profession allowed me to built close relationships with Emergency Room physicians. I have several mentors which guide me through the path of medicine. Physicians educate me about the bases of medicine and important procedures. By example, ER Physicians illustrate the gratification of medicine. I constantly witness the compassion and professionalism of the doctors, which brings me closer to medicine. As time progressed I have experience the type of gratification I was use to appreciate as a bystander.

Like the heart, the face of medicine is also intricate. It is beautiful, yet tragic. Is is ugly. yet fulfilling.

My interest lies in a holistic view of the patient where I’m capable of seeing them through from beginning to end. Knowing the nuances of a patient’s life has impacted my life positively and it is in finding this human connection with them that I find joy, a gentle reminder that the science of medicine extends beyond scaling an academic summit.

The individual in humanity is fueled by a passion he or she delves upon. It may range from an array of academics to public concerns to a philosophical emphasis. Therefore, I consider medical advancement as my enthusiasm to my intellectual character. As a young boy, the biology and chemical milieu of our body has always captured my attention since I was familiar on how the body’s various organs were organized. As such, I consider my persona as positive, focally goal-oriented, and optimistic in my morals