Medical School personal Statement PDF
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Running head: MEDICAL SCHOOL PERSONAL STATEMENT 1Medical School Personal StatementStudent’s NameInstitutional Affiliation
MEDICAL SCHOOL PERSONAL STATEMENT 2Medical School Personal StatementOver the years, I have grown this relentless passion to become a doctor since I was asmall kid. I was brought up in a family with a rich medical background. My parents alwaysmentored us the road to becoming global doctors. They have packed our home library withmedical books and always help us reach out to any medical training opportunity in the city. Mygrandfather was one of the pioneering Syrian Pediatric hematologist and the DamascusUniversity medical school president in Syria. I have two other brothers pursuing Medicine astheir career, Omar Shwaiki a student at North East Ohio Medical University and Ziad Shwaiki amedical student at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. My uncle Dr. AliShwaiki is a currently a practicing Hematologist-Oncologist in Kansas City (Kirkwood et al.,2013). Sometimes, I even tend to believe that the medical passion is a seed implanted in usthrough our DNA. As a small kid, I remember the frequent times I visited my grandfather during his freeweekends. He would make me sit next to him watching videos about the greatest surgeons in theworld and their impacts on humanity as he did his extra hematology research. In one of thedocumentaries, I remember Dr. Ben Carson pursuing a surgery, a live or death surgery that wasvery successful (Kusurkar et al, 2013). And when my grandmother invited us for meals, shewould always address us as doctors which made me feel like one of those great medics I saw inthe documentaries (Erikson, 2013). This inspired in me the beauty to leave the medical legacy sothat in the future other kids could be watching my documentaries. In one of the most heartbreaking moments in 2014, my uncle died of heart attack while inMorocco. He had experienced consistent chest pains for a long time but he was not willing toshare the feeling with a doctor. I hold a belief that he died of fear to see a doctor who wouldprobably have a healing solution to his illness. This paused a challenge to me and triggered in methe desire to become a professionally approachable physician (Borges et al, 2013). In my future,I want to break any barriers between the patient and their doctor. I would want to make thehospital an open home for everyone where they feel free and comfortable to air their healthproblems.Like any other concerned parent, my mother has impacted in me a spirit of compassionand making our every free minute count in helping others if not acquiring new skills. So duringmy free holidays, I always look for volunteering opportunities in the hospitals and homes for thedisabled (Lefevre et al, 2013). In one of my holidays, I was lucky to get a volunteeringopportunity at the Mercy Medical Centre from where I spent over 122 hours at the patient’smedical wards. In another holiday I got another 40 hours volunteering opportunity at AultmanHospital. My interaction with the patients and the nurses there built in me the determination topursue the dream and ease their pains (Huston et al., 2013). On my own, I have done 55 hours ofshadowing, 40 of which I was at the local hospital here in Canton, Ohio and the other 15 hoursunder Dr. Tomas Nguyen, a very talented leader who lives to see his trainees become betterphysicians. The countless deaths happening in Syria, the home to my parents, a result of the ongoingwars is another call that has taken my heart to become a physician. Imagining that there arelikelihoods that some of my parents’ friends and relatives are victims of these wars, it isbecoming so painful seeing all those lives varnish. I believe a committed physician would helpto save a good percent of the deaths. For this reason, I want to selfless work both in the US and
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