Medical Career Goals

Becoming a medical professional has been a dream of mine for a while. My goal is to be apart of World Medical Mission, or an association like this one, and travel the world providing aid to the people that don’t have access to not only vaccines and treatments that we have here in the United States, but also the necessities to live. The World of Medical Mission has many programs in dozens of countries. Every year they dispatch hundreds of medical professionals overseas on shorter-term assignments aiding people living in barren and poverty-stricken nations. My second career goal is to become a Dermatologist. This is the branch of medicine dealing with diseases, the hair, nails, and skin. My last career choice is a Nurse Practitioner. Unlike a
Dermatologist, a Nurse Practitioner is not an MD, but they do have the authority to prescribe medications and treat illness, focusing more on deterrence, healthiness, and guidance. Without my family, I have no idea where I would be. I look up to each and every person in my family, always pushing me to be the best I can be and teaching me the meaning of true kindness and love. I was immensely lucky growing up with parents that always put my brothers and I before themselves. Academically I have always studied and had good grades, but when I started learning about the human body and how it works, I could actually relate to the things that I was being taught. I would get so excited in school about what we were learning and would go home and look up videos on what we were doing trying to understand even more about it and would be so excited to have a conversation with my mom and dad about what I learned.
At this time I knew that I wanted to go into medicine already but 2 years before this class was the moment I figured out that I wanted to do this. Going to Guatemala on a mission trip changed so much for me. Sometimes I wonder if one week was able to show and teach me so much about the world that we are living in, then what could two weeks do? Two months? It’s because I truly believe that I was given such a supportive family, intense interest in science, and a love for people for the people who weren't as lucky as I was. When I arrived in Antigua, from the first all the way to the last day, I had never experienced so much love from complete strangers. Strangers who were living under tarps or didn't have shoes and I never, not once, heard complaints about anything. The amount of faith they had and love would bring tears to my eyes. It was a time like this that I wished I could give them more. I realized that with the life that I was given I had the opportunity and the recourses that I needed to help people around the world that don’t have the opportunities that so many others
do.