Throughout my college career, I have been engaged civically through community service at various organizations such as Mentoring Majesties, Fannie Battle Day Home for Children, and Preston Taylor Ministries performing more than 200 hours of service. In addition to my college and community involvement, I have made advances in my future career to be a healthcare administrator by being selected to participate in the Community Partners Internship through Hospital Corporation of America. Recently, I have been invited back to the internship to participate in a new project that targets behavioral health and access to
The reason I started volunteering was to experience what actually happens in the day to day lives of doctors. I wanted a better understanding of what being a doctor truly means. Being able to see all the action from the sidelines, but know you are helping that whole facility out
Thank you for taking the time to review my personal statement on why I have chosen to embark on the journey to become a Physician Assistant. My story started several years ago, more than I care to count, when I stumbled into the health care world as a paramedic in rural Pennsylvanian. While in high school, I became friends with several other students who were actively volunteering with a local fire department. After hearing their stories about the things they were learning and doing I also joined a volunteer fire department, mostly out of curiosity. Over the course of a couple of years I discovered that the challenges that I encountered during training and responding to emergencies had unlocked some unrealized, more like unknown, drive inside
UW Medical Center offers me the opportunity to grow as a mature adult to provide support to my community. Volunteering has come to my heart in bringing out my selflessness and helping me realize that I am part of something bigger than myself. UW Medical Center, in particular, gives me the ability to work in my desired field of medicine, especially laboratory research. Growing up in a community where medicine plays a large part of my family’s lives, I want the chance to dive deeper into the roots of medicine and hopefully research. I am very attached to the concept of serving others, and I find every opportunity to do so in a mature, motivated, and respectful manner.
In third grade, I was assigned to create a project illustrating what I wanted to be when I grew up. At this time, due to my positive experiences with doctors and my desire to help others, especially children, I decided to describe the role of a pediatrician as my future career. Throughout my childhood, whenever asked about my future aspirations, I confidently declared that I would attend medical school and become a pediatrician. However, as I developed, the answer to this question slowly began to evolve as I gained a deeper understanding of my values and the people I desired to serve through medicine.
In those hospital visits I had become accustomed to the sights and smells of a doctor’s office that instead of reminding me of pain, comforted me. I knew from then on, that the medical field was where I was called to serve.
My parents had always regarded career as doctors to be of higher social and economic status, and they have passed on these "values" to me also since I was a child. Buy my life did not turn out as what they had expected, as I became a single mother of three children when I was just 24. I decided to complete my college and adopted the mindset of an over achiever and decided to become a major in biology to complete my bachelor’s degree which could be accepted in a prestigious medical school. Managing the school along with my growing family had become very difficult. Eventually, I had to drop out after a period of 3 years.
So, I decided to sign up for a week long program called “DocPrep.” In this program, ten students in the entire school would have the opportunity to visit medical facilities, practice suturing, interact with human brains, see heart surgeries and meet many interesting people. After a day or two of being somewhat hesitant, I finally turned in my
Through my studies of human expression and its reflection of how people deal with world events in different ways, I developed sensitivity to other worldviews that continues to prove useful through my daily interactions with people of different backgrounds. I have learned that just like art, medicine involves pattern recognition and derives insight from experiences. Similarly, what I especially enjoy about being a medical assistant is interacting with patients on a daily basis and getting to be a part of their medical experiences, even if it is just by lending an ear. The experiences on my path to a career in medicine have made me want to make a real, tangible difference in the lives of those around me – a difference that leaves my patients in a better condition than they were in before I met them.
During my sophomore year, I was fortunate enough to shadow an internist. I came in every other day and observed his interaction with patients. He managed patients from different age groups and diverse backgrounds. Various illnesses come through that door and I was there to witness aspects of it. I interacted with patients per the physician’s permission to do as such.
We stayed in a cabin with no electricity and learned about the area. The city, Spencer, was very poor and many people didn’t have places to live. We lived on a couple’s farm for the week and the lesson they taught us that really stuck with me was that we need to serve the poor not just by helping, but by respecting them and treating them like equals. Through my shadowing experience I learned that all of a PA’s patients will not be the same. Some walked in in suits and lived in the nicest part of town, and some patients walked in with holes in their clothes.
As an aspiring physician in Emergency Medicine, it is hard to describe typical physician workday activities. Every day is unique and filled with many opportunities to learn and develop clinical, interpersonal communication, leadership and critical thinking skills. Despite this, there are certain routine activities which I had the opportunity to observe through my shadowing experience in the Emergency and Operating rooms at California Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles. One day, a two year old patient came into the ER after falling and cutting her head. The patient’s mother told the physician that her daughter is nervous and scared.
I went to St.Mary 's Mercy Hospital for my job shadow experience. I went alone to the job shadowing and I did not go with any of my peers. The person I job shadowed was my mom 's friend, Her name is Victoria Johnson. The type of career I observed was a nurse 's aide. Her job did not look easy as she described it.
Deciding which career to select in college can be a tough decision. I was confused in the beginning as well, however, guidance from my accounting teacher assisted in my college planning. Along with that, I received an opportunity to attend a job shadowing event, at Trumark Financial Credit Union headquarters. This event gave me the experience to understand how accountants play a role in real life and how their responsibilities affect financing decisions of a business. I believed accounting would be dreary as a career, yet my thoughts on this career changed when returned from Trumark.
Shadow work is a topic of controversy and is, by definition, difficult to investigate due to the lack of quantitative evidence. The essay will present the case studies conducted by Jon Burnett and David Whyte on undocumented migrant workers, and by Teela Sanders with indoor sex workers, showing that these social scientists used the concept of risk to interpret their findings. The essay will then compare the two case studies, showing their similarities, but also their differences, outlining how the concept of risk was used to understand shadow work. Globalisation has led to an increase of migrant labour – legal and illegal – in the developed world. Undocumented migrant labour is difficult to evaluate as it operates outside the formal economy,
