Medical Terminology Personal Statement

I remember taking Medical Terminology almost three years ago back in high school. With only eight students in my class, the class was “early-bird”, meaning that it started at 5:00 AM. Despite the early time, I will forever be indebted to the instructor for helping guide me in journey to become a cardiologist. Before the class, I had never had any exposure to the medical field. Since my instructor was an ICU RN, I was given the chance to not only learn terms used in medicine, but also to go to the hospital to observe different physicians every weekend. Going through that experience helped elucidate what it means to be part of the “healthcare team” and the difficulties that face healthcare professional. In class, we learned about origins of
Lowell Gaertner. In his experiment for the semester, I was helping him study racial prejudice via the startle response, which is measuring “how hard” one blinks when one is shown a negative or positive stimuli that is paired with a pop sound. The pop sound brings about the response, but the negative/positive stimuli determines the magnitude. I helped setup the hour long experiment by bringing participants, setting up the experiment software, and providing instruction on how to do the experiment. I came to realize that I enjoy the uncertainty that happens with research. Formulating hypotheses, making prediction, and setting up the experiment just to find out what will happen is really exciting because often I didn’t know what to expect. And when I did know that to expect, the results might be completely different. Building on those findings and formulating new hypotheses/predictions is very
Throughout my experience in college thus far, I realized that I want to become a cardiologist focused on academic medicine. The heart is an amazing organ which is one of the most important for the body. The rate of heart disease & myocardial infarctions has been increasing in the world every year which could be attributed to a plethora of causes such as obesity and lack of exercise. While the cardiac stent is an amazing innovation in preventing heart attacks, I believe that humans could come up with alternatives that could either stop or reverse atherosclerosis, thereby lowering the rate of heart attacks. In 10-15 years, I wish to be researching this possibility by exploring the options of beneficial drugs or even microbes. This could not only help millions of people with heart disease, but the research could also possibly lead to helping prevent or reverse other diseases such as Alzheimer’s