Personal Statement Essay: My Love For A Career In Medicine

My desire to pursue a career in medicine can be traced back to my childhood love for, and interest in, the natural sciences. As I made my transition from elementary to middle school, the curriculum split the sciences into physical and life sciences, and as a consequence it became apparent to me that it is the life sciences that are in fact, what I am passionate about. By the time I had reached secondary school, my love for the biological sciences had grown to become the focal point of my academic and personal life. I was fascinated by how complex systems, whether in plants or animals, could interact to form an organism capable of survival. How, for example, reproduction is able to take place against all odds, whether in animals, plants, or
The intricacies of the human body captivated my interest to no end; I found that my love for the sciences and for biology in specific had finally been localized into one field: the science of medicine. My now evident love for the field of medicine was still a little hazy to me back then, as I took it to only be a deep fascination in the science of the human body. I eventually realized that this whole time I had been making my way down the road towards
Boustany’s holistic approach to research, as an M.D., that had been so intriguing about her work. I realized that as an M.D., I could learn with no end about human biology and correlate my knowledge with biomedical research. It then came to me that clinical medicine is no longer a separate field from biomedical research. Rather, they complement each other when it comes to finding cures for diseases. A physician should not be an automated machine, carrying out what he/she read in their textbooks, but should rather look further into developing better effective therapies for diseases. Physicians, as scientists, can actually out do the textbooks and maybe even write new