Statement Of Purpose: African Student Organization Club And Health Occupations

I was raised in a third world country where only few people living in major cities had access to health care, whereas the majority residing in suburbs and rural areas struggled to find a doctor. I believe that health care should be accessible to everyone regardless of his or her place of residence. I chose Morehouse College of Medicine because its mission resonates with my goals of serving the underserved populations and improving the well-beings of disadvantaged communities. Morehouse is a leading medical school in the nation in community engagement and public service. Its mission and vision intersects with the core values that I have been striving to implement and achieve since the moment I decided to become a doctor. Serving the community through education, volunteering, and community involvement are things I have been working on throughout my

I am a member of the Teacher PREP Club and the NSU Chapter of NAACP. I am an actively involved member of both organization, attending all scheduled meetings, offering my ideas and input, and giving of my time whenever I can. In Teacher Prep, I helped volunteer for the Children’s Theatre performance, helping to set up, clean up, and serve refreshments afterward. Additionally, I have helped organize the Black History presentation given to the preschool children. In the NAACP, I have helped organize presentations, support fundraising initiatives, and design the organization’s T-shirt design. I also take advantage of various community service opportunities on campus such as the Red Cross Blood Drive, Youth Day, and Color Run. In my free time, I

Outside of school, I am an active member and participant of the Central Savannah River Area's National Society of Black Engineers where I serve as Secretary, Goodwill Youth Board where I hold office as Vice-President, Red Cross Youth Board, Augusta Mini Theater Community Arts and Life Skills School where I hold a position on the Board of Directors as Student Body Representative, Delta GEMS, Rosa T. Beard Debutante Club, and Boys and Girls Club of

During sophomore year, I found out about a high school volunteer group for miRcore, a local nonprofit genetic research organization. Since I was interested in genetics, I decided to join.

In high school, I focused on my academic and joined the decathlon team where I specialized in epidemiology. I was awarded several medals for scoring the highest on the epidemiology test at the annual science Olympics. Later in my high school career, I wanted I heard about a medical program to volunteer as a student escort in the hospital, where I could directly interact with a patient. I enjoyed waking up on Sunday at 7:45 am and going to the hospital for my shift, where I would transport patients throughout the hospital, collect medical records, and deliver lab specimens. It was the first time I could assist in a healthcare setting alongside doctors, but also the

I have worked with diverse groups in school and that made me quite sensitive to various cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, those experiences reinforced my belief that all people matter. I have worked for HHSC as a caseworker for almost three years and I enjoyed that position because I was able to offer aid to Texans all over the state. I love helping people and any career where I am making a positive difference in the community makes me fill fulfilled.

I am a sophomore undergraduate Biology major at Faulkner University. I am an active member of Chi Omicron Chi, a social club here on campus. I enjoy volunteering all the time because I love to see others happy. One day my aspirations

Trying to find a way to become more involved in my community outside of the university, I attended a pre-medical club meeting about volunteer opportunities my freshman year. My initial goal was to find something in a clinical setting. Many groups spoke about opportunities in hospice, patient transport in the nearest hospital, and after school education programs. Then The Listening Ear spoke about their organization, a crisis hotline center. While not the clinical setting I was looking for, I quickly realized the value this organization held for the community and how beneficial the skills I would gain working there would be for assisting future patients struggling with illness.

I, much like the communities we are to serve, have tasted the bitterness of loss, had it etched on my skin, seared onto my heart. I know what its like to have the odds stacked against you, to witness the world as an outsider, hoping to have opportunity. Thus, I can contribute to the diversity at UoM because it courses through my very veins, it influences my ideas, my outlook, and will carve, and shape, the healer I am soon to become. See, in my opinion, to be a community leader, as a doctor should be, you have to have varied interests, you have to be willing to find common ground amongst your patients, peers, and co-workers, because like the late Maya Angelou said, "we are more alike my friends, than we are unalike". I find that UoM's commitment

A Leadership moment of importance for me was when, I as well as a group of other African students advocated for the revival of the African Student Union. The club had been discontinued since the year before the former president of the club graduated. When I had first arrived at Andover I had felt different from the rest of the student body being the only student in my grade who had arrived from Africa. In the beginning there were not many people I could talk to about being an African Student. I did into feel like I faced the same problems as black people who had lived in the U.S for a long time. I gradually found other students who had come from Africa, or had lived in parts of Africa for some of their life. The African Student Union was a

On the Clarkson University campus, I am currently a part of the Minority Association for Pre-Medical Students, otherwise known as MAPS. With MAPS, I participated in multiple community service initiatives and I volunteered at many of the MAPS functions, where we raised money to donate wheelchairs for children in Africa, advocated against smoking on campus by explaining the detrimental health effects, and baked cookies for orphans located in the St. Lawrence County of New York. I am also a member of the Clarkson Intercultural Ambassadors (CIA). With the CIA I helped with events such as running a haunted house during Halloween to raise money for wounded warriors. Also, with the CIA I participated in their tough talks, an open discussion forum

Throughout high school, I was involved in many different organizations that were either designed for volunteering or had a volunteering component, among them: Peer Helpers, a club where juniors and seniors mentored seventh through ninth graders; Youth Service, a club dedicated to volunteering at school fundraisers and the local Salvation Army; and National Honors Society, through which I volunteered at the nursing home as well as Christmas festivals.

From my Sophomore year of high school through my Senior year, I was involved in an organization called Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA). When I decided I wanted to be a part of the organization, I formed a group with four other people, Junior year another member was added. After school, I met up with my group members to research, brainstorm, script, and make a public health presentation for us to show at a

Always having loved volunteering, I have pretty done so to an extent over the years. From days of volunteering for medical missions with Pro-Health International to working as an AdHoc volunteer Doctor with Doctors without Borders on emergency response to the measles and meningitis epidemics in northern Nigeria and up until recently volunteering at a local hospital (Union Hospital) in Lynn, Massachusetts. Nevertheless, a strong desire to ameliorate health conditions among humanity strengthened this love and influenced my choice of education and career paths. Having studied Human Medicine (medicine and surgery) at the University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria, I am a trained physician who also holds a Master of Science degree in International Health Policy and

A few other organizations on campus I decided to join included FAMU’s chapter of the National Council of Negro Women, I used this organization as a way to relate to other women not only on my school’s campus but others in my community. I know maternal and child health is a sub-concentration of Public Health and working with other women helped this aspect of the program come into perspective for me. I also became a part of Active Minds, Inc. as a way to learn more about the way the mind functioned and help bring awareness to mental disorders that plague college campuses across the country. In the Fall semester of 2017 I was also selected to be a Nutrition L.E.A.D.S. Scholar which takes my knowledge of nutritional values and mixed it with a desire to research and service the community around me. As I took the time to research what Public Health entailed I