I wanted to get into the healthcare field to serve my community and be a positive force in the world. Thus, I will bring a community oriented, positive mindset to Sacred Heart University and the PA profession. I am also an aspiring musician and songwriter; being creative and writing music is something that is important to me. I want to bring my creative-scientific mindset to your university and the PA profession. Wether in classroom, clinic, band room, or on the ocean I am determined to work…
Atul Gawande’s novel, Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, shows ways to succeed in the medical profession. Three requirements add up to create the most efficient way to function as a health care professional. Once acquired, the medical field will become better than it is currently. The three ways listed, diligence, doing right, and ingenuity, help achieve success in the medical field (Fall 2014).…
Those in the healthcare profession are respected, hardworking individuals who went above and beyond to prove themselves capable of helping others in the greatest way possible. My career goals are very straightforward. I’ve taken several steps in high school to accomplish these goals by being well disciplined in my studies, and participating in a Health Careers Internship Program. This program offers me a variety of opportunities that make me a more applicable in a healthcare setting. I’ve learned how to build a strong résumé and cover letter, and how do professional interviews well. We also get the chance to observe and participate in a medical environment. I’ll be shadowing with Dr. Steve Carr at Northern Star Therapy and learn the basics of physical therapy. I’ve done also done volunteer work in a Geriatric setting, at the St. Benedict nursing home in St. Cloud. My plans following high school are to attend the University of Minnesota in the College of Biological Sciences. My hopes are to complete my undergraduate in there in the Pre-Medicine program, attend graduate school, and specialize in a currently undecided field of…
The employment outlook for the field of medicine presents hundreds upon thousands of different jobs that each require a specialized skillset and education. According to recent research cited on Naviance, the health care field is the largest growing industry in all of the United States employing greater than 10 million workers and offering around 200 different careers to choose from. The employment outlook is very positively trending upwards with even higher projections for the near future. According to Naviance, the five most important skills for this field consist of Critical thinking, Active listening, Judgement and decision making, reading comprehension, and writing. According to my personality tests and strengths explorer taken on Naviance, these are areas in which I excel in and correspond with. When encountering situations in both school and the general world where I have been required to apply these skills, I have predominantly found success. The five most important abilities cited by Naviance for this field, include, problem sensitivity, oral expression, oral comprehension, written comprehension, and, inductive reasoning. In addition to being a beneficial field knowledge, and intelligence wise; the occupation of general and family practice is a…
The driving force is to gain depth and knowledge to develop into a well-rounded medical professional. It will help not only better myself, but for the betterment of the community I serve. Moreover, if the…
In addition, my employment experience has provided me with great respect for social and ethical views that differ from my own. This position has given me the opportunity to decide if a career in medicine is truly where I would like to be. Working at the hospital has been a truly challenging experience through dealing with the magnitude of death, illness, and recovery. This experience has made me realize that a career in medicine is where I need to be. I have experienced a multitude of emotions and in the end I have realized that the reward of knowing that a life was saved or that through the death of a patient, we have made groundbreaking discoveries in medicine is far greater than the emotional tensity associated with the experience.…
There are two instances in my life that has inspired me to gain interest in medicine. My grandmother when I was around the age of twelve received double bypass surgery and I fell in love with the physician who took care of her. The physician was a middle aged woman who was one of the kindest person I have ever met, and she gave us the news of how everything went fine during surgery. She also gave us great confidence in how my grandmother would return to normal soon. The look on my parents and aunts face when she gave the news gave me goosebumps and to this day I feel the same goosebumps when I think about this. I just wanted to one day be in a position to deliver good news to a family and to see that “look” of relief on their faces. Another…
I have had the opportunity to receive great encouragement from people in my life. This has led me to where I am today, which is the desire to become a medical assistant in a children’s hospital. Ever since I was a young girl, I have been interested in anything that is medical related. This goes from playing doctor to my dolls and friends, to becoming a certified nurse’s aide (CNA) at the age of 18. My mother is working towards her goal of becoming a registered nurse after overcoming breast cancer. I also have a cousin and a couple of aunts who are nurses whom I look to whenever I get frustrated with achieving my goal. When taking…
During the mid-18th to late 19th-century medical education/training did not exist, during this time the practice of medicine was not seen as a profession. Everyone who had the desire to be physician could practice medicine, even without any scientific knowledge. According to Shi and Singh (2015), “from about 1800 to 1950, medical training was largely received through an individual apprenticeship with a practicing physician” and not through university education as is do it in the present (p. 87). In the United Stated (U.S.), during the preindustrial era, the American medicine was falling behind compared to the medical education, medical advances and research in Europe. Additionally, medical procedures in the U.S. were primitive and lack a scientific base to support them. “By 1800, only four medical schools existed in the U.S.: College of Philadelphia, King’s College, Harvard Medical School, and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College” (Shi & Singh, 2015, p.87). The medical schools that existed during 1800 were owned and managed by physicians and lacked practical clinical education in hospitals, also required less than the actual years of education for graduation.…
my community. It provided me a chance to understand socialand cultural aspects of life in general, and was wonderful to…
However, I am not going to let this discourage me because I believe that I was born to be a pediatrician. I tried to look through a list of jobs, but I couldn’t find one that suits me better than medicine. With all the information I gathered from my research, I will try to find ways to make being a medical student an enjoyable trip despite the years that it will take me. “Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re on. Being successful means that you’re working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That’s living your dream”-Marlon…
As nurses we all know how to measure a patients vital signs and what they are used for.…
I do not want to sound like that cliché student that say they excel in science curriculums or enjoy helping people, but I do. I attend a high school that is geared towards science and I exceeded the expectations of courses I have taken. My mother has been a nurse for almost 40 years, which stood as a major influence on my choice of major and why I am pleased when helping people. I may be that cliché student, but I am much more. I am a problem solver; my brain is always cranking to decipher the problems at hand. I am a dreamer; I dream of having a successful, healthy, and happy life. I am motivated; once I put my mind to something, very little can stand in the way of what I wish to achieve. A Doctorate of Physical Therapy is what I want to end my college journey with, no matter how long it takes and how bumpy the journey is, because it is what I dream of.…
After graduation, I plan to matriculate into a well credited Physician Associate program – preferably the University of Oklahoma’s Health Science Center in Oklahoma City. Upon completion, I will join the work force as a practicing physician associate. Many of the career goals I hold for myself do not stray very far away from the overall goals I have kept for myself since I was young. These include never to sacrifice my moral rules that I hold for myself to theoretically advance my professional career, never giving up whether in a diagnosis or plan of rehabilitation for a patient, and lastly having a work ethic that is second to none. I firmly believe that to those who possess diligent and hardworking professional habits will receive the credit…
Ambition is important, but having the means to pursue my ambition is essential. A more privileged person may not comprehend the magnitude of scholarships and financial awards to secure educational success, but I do. I do not take this lightly, nor do I take it for granted. I believe that I have worked hard, but even that does not guarantee success. This scholarship will enable me to obtain my degree and begin my dream of being a professional in the medical field.…
