Essay On Internship Experience

When I started my internship at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC), which lies in the foothills of snow capped Mount Kilimanjaro in Moshi, Tanzania, I developed my clinical hands-on experience. I helped diagnose and manage a wide variety of acute and chronic medical conditions, from the very common to unusual and complicated cases. I embraced every opportunity not only for patient care, but also the development of my clinical problem solving skills as well as presentation. As days went by, learning became easier. while discussing cases with my colleagues, residents and attending, I came to understand that it is impractical to know everything in medicine, but that built my confidence to improve my basic steps in the management of
I would try to exhaust all the possibilities before discussing with attending . During my employment as well as my first year residency I had opportunity to work with interns and medical students, to contrast on our abilities, doing a thorough examination and coming up with plan on management. It was astonishing to know how far I have reached in my training and how much further I have to go.
As being a class representative, I, not only was in involved in a life of medicine but beyond that I was involved in class organization, communicating with professors and tutors on the class schedules, attended meetings and played active role in class decision making and at the end I was proud to be patted by my dean and introduced as the most hardworking, smart and active class representative she has ever worked with.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, this journey confirmed that I made a right choice to become a physician. Despite the long hours and the stress, I still enjoyed the struggle and its challenges. Now that we are settled here, I enthusiastically look forward to resuming my pursuit of a career in medicine. This has been a lifelong aspiration of mine and the opportunity to apply to pursue this part of the world is a real dream come