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Navy Health Professions Scholarship Program
My application to the Navy Health Professions Scholarship Program follows the time-period I previously believed would be the best of my adult life: after I was confirmed a place in a U.S. medical degree program. While I was and continue to be extremely pleased with achieving the goal which inspired incredible hard work throughout the last five exhausting years, I would be diminishing myself to claim that this achievement was enough. Long before beginning my applications to medical school, I had been introduced to the benefits of Navy medicine – mainly through its contributions to pre-hospital emergency medical care. I was particularity impressed with the significant influence Navy research had on medical techniques that were so standard to

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