On my very first emergency first aid call as a high school volunteer EMT, I was thrown into a chaotic scenario where I had to conduct numerous rounds of CPR in an attempt to save a patient who was absent of a pulse. While our first response team was unsuccessful in saving this man’s life, the people around me had saved hundreds of patients over the course of their health care lives and I knew that I wanted to be like them. This life-changing experience ultimately served as the catalyst for me to enter the medical field and I am currently pursuing a premed track at Lehigh University as a rising senior, where I plan to graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in molecular biology. At college, I decided to continue being of service to my community …show more content…
Guzzo of the Lehigh Valley Health Network’s Department of Vascular Surgery in the operating room as part of the Research Scholar Program. Not only did this extensive shadowing experience solidify my aspiration to enter the medical field, but it revealed my hidden passion to pursue surgery since I was fascinated with the ability that surgeons have to directly correct the mechanism contributing to a disease or injury. In addition, I was able to contribute back to the LVHN community by creating a vascular surgery database of all abdominal aorta aneurysm (AAA) patients that were treated by the Cedar Crest hospital. Utilizing this database of all the AAA cases, paired with the patients specific anatomical dimensions, I was able to determine that over 50% of these patients were candidates for a minimally invasive alternative stent graft procedure and could have been spared their complex open repair surgical treatment which tends to have a high morbidity and mortality rate. I believe that both my past medical background and the skillset which I acquired during this summer internship make me an ideal candidate to tackle the cyto reductive surgery and heated intra peritoneal chemotherapy project. I am highly fascinated in exploring cancer etiology and would love the opportunity to witness the removal of tumors from the peritoneal mesothelioma of patients, while also learning more regarding which branch of
For the past 17 years I have been in positions of leadership in the United States Air Force Nurse Corps. The most recent positions:
Physician Assistant is a career choice that entails various specialties and flexibilities that attracts many. Those who desires a path to practice medicine as soon as possible, PA 's lateral mobility allows that to happen. Compared to medical school, PA school requires less time and amount less debt. As the population grows and chronic diseases spreads, The future projection of PA is growing faster than the average careers.
I want to be a physician assistant. I am interested in this career because I like how physician assistants can work in several different specialties. This will give me choices to change my specialty if I do not like the one that I originally choose. Also, I have always been a lifetime learner and I would like to try out different specialties. This will help me to gain more knowledge. After working as a physician assistant, If I decide to become a doctor then I can do that too. I love working with patients. Being a physician assistant would help me to interact more with people and will give me a chance to help others.
After over 15 years of working as a CNA and Caregiver, I decided that I wanted to continue my education in the medical field. In 2013 I took the first step towards gaining a better future with more experience as a medical professional. I enrolled into a Medical Assistant program at IBMC college of Longmont. It has been a long road and I am almost to the finish line having gained essential skills needed to move further into my career. It has been a grueling and eye opening experience for me being an adult learner returning back to school at 33 years of age. I persevered through these pass two years with courage and determination, never letting my short comings get the best of me. As I approach the end of my journey with IBMC I have realized that I have a passion for helping those persons who
The opportunity to expand and refine my nursing knowledge has always equated to me attending the University of Alabama School of Nursing’s masters program. With their master’s degree programs earning the number one spot for Top 50 Best Value, the quality of the programs is undeniable. I selected to apply to the psychiatric mental health track because during my undergraduate studies, I realized this was a career worthy study. My brother was diagnosed with bipolar/schizophrenia at fifteen, and I always questioned his lack of motivation and self-care abilities. It was not until taking the Concepts of Behavioral Health Nursing, that I realized the existence of positive and negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia, and that apathy and learning disabilities were just as much a part of my brother’s illness as hallucinations or delusions. According to Akiko (2004) “Severity of negative symptoms was significantly associated with worse performance on attention/working memory,”(p. 750). With this
Presently, my extracurricular and academic interests are combined in my two year Health Science class. The class provides real-life medical situations that I may come in contact with in the future. Like any health science class, we study the body, in both its’ functional and dysfunctional state. This survey class also includes an introduction to equipment, medical protocol, and ethical issues. A sense of teamwork guides our procedures. Next semester, I will study at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Ramstein High School’s Career Practicum program. After initial on-the-job application of classroom learning, we will work with patients, supervised by the hospital staff. Living so close to a hospital that services thousands of seriously injured patients every year provides opportunities that other students lack, even in their college programs.
As a first-year Graduate student in Health Services Administration, I am eager to improve the health status of our community, especially the poor and under-served. While volunteering at The Jewish Hospital for three months, I recognized Mercy Health was similarly committed to bettering the community. As such, I was elated when I learned of the Mercy Health - West Hospital Internship. I believe my success at The Jewish Hospital, experience analyzing large data sets for over a year, unique perspective, and interest in acquiring hospital finance and operations experience make me an ideal candidate for the Mercy Health - West Hospital summer Internship position.
I chose a career as a medical assistant because of the rewards I knew I would experience on a daily basis. Seeing a patient smile because I have helped them understand, or just making them feel comfortable with their visit, is just one of the many perks of my job. Upon graduating from an accredited college such as The College of Health Care Professions (CHCP), I now work for one of the most reputable hospitals in my area. Within two short years of committed studies, I obtained my associate of applied science degree, and then went on to obtain my certification as a medical assistant. There is nothing I have found more fulfilling, strong, secure, or rewarding then choosing to become a medical assistant,
I had known for years that I wanted to work in the health care field, but I always believed it would be as a doctor. I watched for the first few years of my brother’s life as he struggled with different health challenges such as being born premature, having croup and breathing difficulty, and speech impairment. Watching my brother struggle and then being able to overcome these difficulties, as well as seeing other children around him who were not as fortunate, really pushed me even at a young age to make a difference. My family, both immediate and extended, were very supportive, and I felt a real positive push towards working hard to achieve that goal of working in health care. In high school, I was fortunate enough to do a cooperative placement at the Peterborough Regional Health Center’s Intensive Care Unit. Through observing rounds and being in the medical setting, I truly knew this is where I wanted to
I am applying to your master’s program in Family Nurse Practitioner for the fall of 2016. Nursing has given me the opportunity to touch and save life’s. Prior to earning my undergraduate degree in Nursing, I worked as a License Practical Nurse for five years and continue working full time during my undergraduate program. I was enrolled full time in the accelerated Nursing track and graduated with good grades because of the strong support system around me. The profession of Nursing has been a blessing and it gave me opportunities to touch lives and smiles on many faces.
“Life is a balanced system of learning, adjusting, and evolving. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.” - Dr. Steve Maraboli
Obtaining my bachelor’s degree has been one of the greatest and proudest accomplishments in my life. Not only because I reached a milestone in my life plan, but also because I am ready to start a new chapter in my life. Starting graduate studies is currently the main focus of my life and what I yearn to do. My aim for graduate school is to not only expand my knowledge and skills but also to make a difference in the Psychology field and the world. I want to be able to give back to my family and to my community by becoming a qualified expert on the discipline.
I completed a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology where I learned the process of independently developing an idea into a research question and successfully executing it. Upon completion of the Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, I went on to pursue a rigorous two-year clinical training program termed as M.Phil (Master’s of Philosophy) degree in Clinical Psychology. This training is based on Boulder model and is offered at the Institute of Human Behavior and Allied Sciences (IHBAS), University of Delhi, India. Throughout the M.Phil training, I was actively involved in psychological assessment and therapeutic management of patients who presented with psychiatric conditions, ranging from depression, anxiety disorders, personality disorders,
Falling asleep to the lullaby of heart monitors and the fragrance of germicide—this is one of my first memories of the hospital. It was the norm for dinner talk to be splattered with talk of blood, drugs, gunshots, and burns, followed by coworker drama, noncompliant patients, and the literal and metaphorical crap that must be dealt with. Growing up this way, medical settings became a comfortable, familiar, and interesting place for me. So much so that nothing but a healthcare career seemed to click the right way with me.
Introduction This essay will analyse the doctor-patient interview in Appendix B, paying attention to the topic and turn taking, structure, the co-operative principle, modality, question forms, back-channelling and semantics. Analysis of these features will provide evidence for the tension and misunderstandings in the discourse. Topic and Turn taking The topic of the discourse is lead mainly by the doctor in the beginning but there is a struggle for topic and turn taking (Yule 2006) from the middle to the end.