TTUHSC SOM Personal Statement

I chose TTUHSC SOM because of the ability to learn medicine in a place that values the art of patient care in its foundation as well as the ability to do anything I hope to do in medicine guided by the strength of its mission and the care that TTUHSC SOM provides for its students.

I would like to conduct my medical career in a setting that converges between urban and rural settings. My parents brought their strong work ethic from Ghana, cultivated on their family’s farms, to Austin, Texas where it was critical in encouraging my own desire to work in close contact with a diverse population of patients. My experiences in the communities I’ve lived in and health care have provided me with the insight to work within both types of areas. My most prominent experiences in health care have come from working in clinics that serve underserved populations. Even though these experiences were in dense urban populations, the one-on-one interaction there reminded me of some of the intimate clinics that I shadowed in rural areas of the Solomon Islands, where I worked on a communication for development project focused on helping local governmental and non-governmental organizations improve awareness of health issues to the indigent

In order to translate my experiences into tangible products, I am obtaining a Master’s in Business Administration alongside with my medical education, and I plan to create a personal multidisciplinary foundation within medicine, healthcare management, and public health toward solutions of current multifaceted healthcare issues, particularly those related to behavioral compliance in treatment and mental