Public Health Personal Statement

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The Program of Public Health at UC Irvine has provided me with the foundation and platform to engage in many different projects. Starting my first year, I was able to learn about the different sectors of Public Health and how they work in collaboration to ensure the wellbeing and safety of the public. This knowledge helped me recognize where my true passion was – disease prevention and health education. Additionally, in the classroom I was able to learn about the science behind the models of disease prevention and health education. My Public Health professors were also able to inform me of how social and economic determinants can contribute to the onset of these diseases I was able to learn about the processes in the body that cause diseases …show more content…

This foundation also helped me develop the skill set I have used during my experiences at UC Irvine. Many of my experiences during undergraduate involve working with the underserved communities in Orange County who do not have the access to healthcare. I rely on my education and training to educate patients on their current health status and how they can make certain lifestyle modifications to improve their health. The encounters I have had with patients have helped me confirm that this is something I would like to pursue in the future. My future career goals involve earning a MPH/MD degree in order to continue advocating and educating patients at a more substantial level. More specifically, I would like to pursue primary care medicine in order to promote the community-based medicine model. I hope to one-day return as a physician to the same demographic I served as an undergraduate Public Health …show more content…

This change is the result of me writing more scientific based papers. With a scientific paper, the overall categories are present, but how the material is structured in the category is up to the writer. This freedom allowed my writing to develop to the point where I do not any longer stick to the “five paragraph” method. In addition to this, I have refined my word choice to portray a scientific tone and learned how to paraphrase materials and incorporate them without direct quotations. This is evident in my “Review of Article” from PH

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