Statement Of Purpose: Cosby Health Science

While growing up, there are innumerable decisions to be made and paths to take. As I am approaching the ending point of my high school career, I have finally found the correct one for me. I have known from a surprisingly young age that I wish to pursue a job in the medical field, and have taken a number of steps to help achieve this dream. I show tremendous passion for both my educational and career goals, and how to reach them. My future is incredibly important to me because through doing my job, I will also be achieving my biggest goal: saving lives.

Emory School of Medicine provides a unique environment to mold my medical education to work within clinical care in a dynamic global community. My diverse range of experiences from my upbringing, eclectic communities I have grown in, and unique perspectives of medicine and public health I have gained through my professional pursuits will be vital to me contributing to the unique atmosphere of ingenuity at Emory that supports the development of doctors who strive to serve individuals and communities of all types. Through my research experiences, I gained a multidisciplinary understanding healthcare through different contexts, which converges on finding effective ways to communicating with people and gaining a better understanding of what goes

When my interest and desire to become a physician went underway during my Junior year of undergrad, I had the desire to attend a medical school that I would fit into well, obtain a great medical education, and enjoy the years that I would spend at the school. I wanted to find a school that I could use my diverse skills to improve not only the student body and community, but also my life by being at a school with a similar vision as I have for myself. When researching universities that would fit this mold I came across Morehouse School of Medicine. After researching the school's mission and goals, I felt that I fit into the mold of a diverse individual looking for a nurturing environment where I could gain an effective medical education. The

I used to tell my friends and teachers that I wanted to explore the medical field because that was what my family wanted me to do. They wanted me to become a doctor as it is a well praised profession that pays extremely well. As I grew older and entered middle school, I realized that becoming a doctor wasn’t something I was immensely interested in. Instead of a doctor, I wanted to become a veterinarian, treating animals instead of people. I’ve become aware of my passion for animals ever since I began having pets: from fish to hamsters to dogs. I decided to focus on animals when I first took one of my hamsters to a veterinarian. I thought that their profession was fun and interesting because it revolves around animals, something that I love and grown up with. Although studying veterinary sciences is difficult and competitive, becoming an animal doctor has been one of my greatest

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” As a child, we have all been asked this question; and as unrealistic children, we all had dreams of being a superhero, princess, cowboy, or astronaut. Later on in life, as time went by, and as we became more knowledgeable, our answers became more serious. Some of us wanted to be teachers, business owners, or a veterinarian. However, I have always wanted to be a doctor, but not just any doctor. For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a pediatrician. Now, half way through my junior year in high school, I have started to question the details of this career, and all the hard work it takes to become a part of the medical field.

My decision to become a pediatrician allows to me combine to two most things I love: children and academics. Children have always played an important role in my life. For example, I enjoyed babysitting little children. I enjoy playing with them and seeing how children can be so creative at a young age. Similarly, academics have always played an major role in my life also. My parents would always stress

I wanted to be like the doctor helping people. I had went through middle school still wanting the same thing, then when it came to highschool. I wanted it more than anything. I searched for high schools here in Charlotte that could offer some kind of medical education that could possible help me pursue my dreams of one day becoming a doctor. I found a school called Phillip O Berry. It is a huge technology school, which also offers, Engineering and Medical Academies. I am currently in my last year here, I did follow through with the medical academy. I am in my last medical class I need. I really enjoyed being able to take these classes here. It has really opened my eyes to what it really is like being in the medical field and the obligations we have. This is just the beginning of the start of my medical career. I will go on until my title is Dr.

I am currently a senior at Santa Ana Valley High School. I am planning to further my education and obtain a degree. I am certain I want to be in the medical field; I have in the medical academy for three years here at Valley and I’ve never experienced anything more amazing. Most of my classes were honor classes and a couple were AP, Advanced Placement, throughout my high school years.

When researching medical schools, one of the most important criteria I looked for was a medical school that prioritized serving underserved populations. Many of my experiences in college have helped me understand what type of physician I want to be. In combination with my courses, I knew that my life calling would revolve around alleviating health disparities as both a physician and a scholar. Therefore, when I considered the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, I was happy to see that the school understands its role in addressing this problem. Therefore, I immediately was attracted to Temple because I want to attend a medical school that inspires students like me to affect change.

During my four years at Brooklyn Technical High School, I was part of the Gateway to Medicine program. I was introduced to courses such as anatomy & physiology, organic chemistry, and biology. These extremely challenging classes piqued my interest to explore a future career in health care. The Gateway to Medicine program was multi-faceted, I went from dissecting cats to learning about spontaneous de-combustion. My guidance counselor also helped prepare me to choose a career in the medical profession.

In college, my desire for a career path in medicine encourages me to do my very best throughout school in order to achieve my childhood dream. The surgeries I’ve experienced throughout my life have taught me to be strong no matter how painful it may be during recovery because in the end, it’ll all get better. Not only that but of course it has helped me become more interested and knowledgeable of the environment in a hospital setting. My interests in what seems to be a difficult path to complete have inspired my siblings of mine to do better in school to someday be “as smart as Christian”. Due to my familiarization with college and what the classes tend to be like, I have encourage many cousins my age to continue persevering in school to receive the best possible outcome for their future. Although I am not the first out my brother to be enrolled in college, both of us attending STC, I myself have actually surpassed him with the many opportunities given to me at this wonderful early college and has prepared me rigorously for what future college life may be like.

For years, I would talk about how I would become a doctor not knowing what I wanted my specialty to be or how much work it required. It was when I discovered my love and patience for kids, that I decided on becoming a pediatrician just like my doctor. Over the past couple of years, I have come to continuously re-evaluate my career goals. I have found myself willing to choose a career path that is more involved in the care of children; my aspirations lead me towards becoming a pediatric surgeon. I am very eager to help children and the sooner I will be able to, the better. The skills that the Mini-Medical School Program can teach me will help to better accustomed me to a life centered around medicine and helping others. It can help launch me towards a life-long career of helping children medically. My interest in helping children stems from the fact that I could actually save children’s lives. Children that could grow up to lead healthy lives instead of letting their illnesses overcome them. In addition to aiding children medically, I would put my best efforts in trying to find a disease that I could help cure for them. It has also been a dream of mine to someday be able to cure a disease. If presented the opportunity to do so in the future, I would definitely accept in a heartbeat if it meant that I could help children become healthier or save their

I even took health science classes as part of the medical academy three years in a row during high school because I always thought that I wanted to enter the medical field. However, towards the end of my senior year in high school, I wondered to myself if I wanted to go through numerous years of college, medical school, residency, and fellowship that required a copious amount of time and money in order to become a doctor. I think one of the biggest obstacles for me deciding on Biomedical Sciences is the time and money required to finally show results of my decision. With that said, I really enjoyed my time in the health science classes I took throughout my high school years because it was really fun and I liked the idea of helping people. Therefore, that is one of the biggest reasons for my conflict in actually choosing to major in Biomedical Sciences. If I took Biomedical Sciences, I know that it leads me towards a path of becoming a physician, pharmacist, dentist, physician’s assistant, and many other medical careers, but I still don’t exactly know if it is right for me. Even in the My Plan assessments that I took, it said that health care is number two in the areas that I have a match

Next, science is the light that keeps us out of the dark ages. If science did not evolve, we would have many unanswered questions related to real life, die with terrifying diseases, and starve without hygiene and nutritious food. Because science has an impact on every aspect of our lives, I am eager in exploring this immense field of study and improve society through healthcare. When it comes to STEM field and school, on top of maintaining good GPA and grades, I devote my time well to my extracurriculars. Starting 7th grade, my passion for opting the medical field has strengthened due to my influential pediatrician. This enhanced drastically as I started gaining many volunteering and shadowing experiences throughout high school. As a freshman, I started taking advantage of majority of the opportunities around me like joining HOSA (Health Occupations Students Of America), Steminism, NHS, UPMC Passavant, Senior Living Facility. Covering a wide range of areas in healthcare-- volunteering/shadowing a geriatrician, pharmacist, nurse, surgeon and more-- solidified my aspiration. However, when I think about the medical field, clinical is not the only side. Research plays a huge role in medicine because without this, we would have inadequate knowledge about science and also would not have access to all these sophisticated treatments. Bayer School Scholars Program is a great opportunity for students like me to

From an early age, I have been fascinated by how things work. It seems, listening to family, that I was never satisfied with a simple answer that machine runs on power; but always wanted to know more. As I completed my undergraduate education in ________, I became more and more interested in pursuing an advanced degree in Biomedical Engineering. My well-rounded educational pursuits thus far have served me well, engineering complimented by a sound background in the humanities and hard sciences. I have, though, a robust passion to learn more, to hone my skills even more in a field that has simply exploded over the past decade biomedical engineering.