...Thank you! For Case Western Reserve University, I am interested in the Molecular Medicine program. I will be doing research in the Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute. I first heard about this program when I was helping my sister move into her college two summers ago. I was born in Ohio and haven't visited the state since so I was intrigued by the city. After I helped my sister move in, I also made time to walk around the college town, museums, and hospitals. It was an eye-opening moment for me, personally because I didn't expect myself to move out of Oregon till then. Although CWRU seemed like a small private college, it had so many research labs and numerous projects operated my renowned researchers who are also professors, doctors, and advisors. I've also done research on professors and research projects and there are numerous projects and studies I would like to learn more about. There are many departments in this program, including Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Stem cell biology and Regenerative medicine, Cancer Biology. I am still in the process of trying to find what I would like to work on specifically and although I...
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...Health and medicine has been a passion of mine since adolescence. This program will be a continuation of my learning path. While in high school, I participated in a student of nursing program and earned certification as a nursing assistant. I continued my passion for the field at Illinois College by studying Biology. In addition to schooling, I worked at a skilled nursing facility where I engaged in direct patient care also shadowed health care professionals to further explore my interest. In many ways, health and medicine reflects my values and interests. I value the core principles of medical ethics that include respecting others rights, doing no harm, and acting for the benefit of others. I also find its cornerstones, which include committing to rigorous study and practice, educating patients and leading by example, and placing the needs of others first, equally appealing. As an aspiring physician, I am confident that I can integrate the values and interests of health and medicine with my own. I want to help others lead healthy lifestyles; therefore, it is my goal to continue on my path and acquire the professional knowledge and training of a physician....
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...Medicine is very powerful and useful when it comes to its contribution to helping people and animals all over the world. Medicine is the science and practice of diagnosis, prevention of disease and treatment. There are many practices that emerged to maintain or improve health by the prevention and treatment of illness. There are some reasons as to why I am applying to the Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program. One reason is I’m interested in pursuing a career in medicine in the future. At first, I wasn’t sure about whether I wanted to pursue medicine but when I volunteered at the Mount Sinai West Hospital over the summer, the experience made me know for sure that I wanted to pursue a career in medicine. I wasn’t doing any hands...
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...My decision to pursue a career in Pre-Medicine dawned upon me at a very early age. I constantly engaged myself with activities that would help me with my aspirations. Now, as a Junior in high school, my path has become much clearer and my future much more exciting. I hope to be a surgeon when I grow up. Now I understand that the path that lay before me is one filled with many obstacles, yet after enduring the hardships of medical school, rotations, internships and fellowships the only thing that could possibly limit me is myself. Knowing this puts my mind at ease, as my dreams of saving the place dearest to me, Africa, already can be considered far-fetched. Once I have achieved approval to practice medicine, I can finally go back to Africa....
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...Hope this email finds you well. This is Shahin Shafiei (AAMC ID: 13977030). I am one of the applicants to the University at Buffalo Family Medicine Residency Program. I had the opportunity to meet with Dr. Symons at the Winter Weekend conference in Saratoga Springs in New York last January and learning more about the structure of the inpatient and outpatient family medicine rotations in your program. I believe that the three distinct training tracks along with the concentration in global health that your program provide is the perfect fit for me and in line with my clinical interests. I am a graduate of the American University of Antigua College of Medicine in 2015. Upon graduation from medical school, I had the opportunity to obtain more...
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...I strive to enhance the quality of human life through sound investigation and precise medical judgment. My earliest influence in the medical field stemmed from frequent visits to Children’s Hospital of Cincinnati where I was diagnosed with chronic asthma. Fortunately, my unsolicited visits to the hospital opened a faucet of interest in medicine. My career goal was further solidified following my mother’s diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. Her hypoglycemic episode was quickly treated and controlled by skilled emergency physicians who were astutely trained in treating urgent patients. I was impressed by the professionalism, skill and quality of care that emergency room physicians delivered within a short time frame. These experiences are what developed my desire to pursue a career in medicine; specifically emergency room medicine. I hope to prolong life by simply understanding the mechanism of human disease, validating prevention and identifying the most effective treatment of disease. I am currently a biology pre-medicine student studying at Malone University. Following...
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...I began working at the age of 18 and learned how to balance my hectic life with work, making time for friends and family, and also keeping my grades up. I’ve been on the dean’s list every semester since I began college all while working full time. Staying motivated has not been easy because of my clinical depression but having people that support and believe in me has pushed me to do my best in everything. I joined the Math, Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) program because I know pursuing a career in the sciences can be very difficult and overwhelming. I found this would be a great opportunity for me to have a sense of guidance being a first generation student not knowing how to pursue a career in medicine. This has helped me tremendously...
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...Everyone has this image of Africa: children with distended stomachs, dry dirt roads and mud brick shelters. It’s what we see in media; whether it be over the internet or on the news. We hear of the poverty, the corruption, the social injustice. And all of these things exist, if that’s what you’re looking for. However, as I ventured into this new part of the world, my eyes were open to so much more than the images I had previously let myself define as “Africa.” I journeyed to Burkina Faso, West Africa to gain knowledge about careers in third world medicine. What I left with was immensely more valuable. One event that left an immutable mark on me happened as we were returning from a village late one night. We were driving down the largest road...
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...Personalized Medicine Na’Tasha Slade SCI 115 Professor Palaniswamy August 5, 2012 Personalized Medicine has great influence on the way we think towards identifying and managing healthcare problems and diseases. Personalize medicine aids in providing an in depth analysis of hereditary differences within genetically difference of people and also how it may affect the healthcare that they may need. With technology being modified daily the advancements in technology may improve the levels of personalize medicine by, giving details on someone metabolic, genetic, and proteinaceous profile that in the future be used to customize individual medical care. The concept of personalized medicine has broadened to include evaluation of your genetic risk of developing disease and determining how serious it may be as well as detecting diseases at much earlier stages—usually before you have symptoms. A personalized medicine approach will also tell you what medicines will work best for you, depending on many different factors, and reduce or eliminate the trial-and-error process of trying to find the right ones. A personalized medicine approach will better monitor disease and treatments and have a better chance of predicting outcomes of therapies and treatment approaches. Personalized medicine usually involves a combination of genetic testing (to determine propensity for certain diseases); suggestions for lifestyle changes; detection of diseases at the molecular level; and customized...
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...Running head: HERITAGE ASSESSMENT Heritage Assessment: A Comparison of Three Cultures Sufi Heritage Assessment: A Comparison of Three Cultures America’s growing diversity is increasing day by day as it is considered to be the “land of opportunity”. People from all over the world are here with different cultures. As United States has increasingly cultural diversity -Asian are 3.6 %, one tenth % of US population will be foreign born by 2050 (Gregory Juckett, 2005). It has become very important to understand and respect this various cultural beliefs especially in the healthcare system. All cultures have equal values and are different from one another. Heritage Assessment is a tool to help us know about one beliefs and the health tradition. Heritage tool help the author recognized different cultures thoughts, beliefs. This tool helps to evaluate the similarities and differences between different cultures. No one becomes culturally competent overnight or with one or two hours of training; certain attitudes need to be learned, skills transmitted, and knowledge absorbed (California Endowment, 2003). People from different culture have different beliefs about their health traditions. They have a different approach for protection, maintenance, and restoration of their health. This paper will compare the similarities and differences regarding health practice methods among the Hindus, Muslims, and White cultures. This author...
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...understands the self it assists in providing an optimal outcome. When we are aware of our beliefs and positions in the world we can be cautious of how we approach a certain patient population and ultimately the care they receive. Professional presence, personality, mindfulness and healing environments will be discussed along with my personal response. Professional Presence Era I versus Era III As the western world has advanced in medicine Larry Dossey has identified three eras to give context to how medicine has advanced in function. (Koerner 2011). In Era I, as science was being incorporated to medicine, it was noted that health and illness was purely physical in nature and treatment. The methods of treating an illness focused entirely on the body, for example, administering medications or performing surgery. Health was understood as an absence of disease. The physical nature of the disease was all that was taken into account. The idea of consciousness was limited to the chemical, anatomic and physiological location in the brain. (Koerner 2011). Era I is very common and drives nearly all decisions made in the medical field today. This is foundational medicine, the premise of western understanding of health and illness. Era I was when health and science came together, biology was a huge peice. It wasn’t until a century later that the mind became apart of health and illness and shortly after that the spirit was added to the mix. Era III model of...
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...REVOLUTION OF PERSONLIZED MEDICINE Shalika White Julie McCollum Intro to Bio SCI 115 November 8, 2011 Imagine receiving a call from your child’s doctor to inform you that your baby’s genetic test results are in and they reveal that he or she has the markers of cancer and or heart disease! These test won’t reveal when or if your child would develop cancer but the percentage is great that he or she will. The doctor then tells you that he would like to begin a series of test and care, all personally developed and tailored just for your child in hopes of preventing him from developing cancer and heart disease. Would you be willing to begin this prevention? Would you even want to know this information? Personalized medicine is the new revolution in medicine. “By offering the right treatment for the right individual, at the right time, personalized medicine can often prevent disease form developing, or reduce the severity of existing disease”. (www.dukepersonalizedmedicine.org) Scientist believe that if doctors were able to detect disease early on there would be less sickness, ultimately reducing medical cost and empowering overall health. Doctors will be able to work with each patient to promote health, wellness, patient education, disease prevention, detection and treatment. This particular strategy will differ from person to person and they would be able to understand individual risk factors. The benefits of personalized medicine would also include...
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...Personalized medicine Personalized medicine is defined as a medical model of customized healthcare in which the medical decisions, practices, and/or products are tailored for the individual patient. In this model, the diagnostic test is often used to select appropriate and optimal treatments based on the context of a patient’s genetic content, other molecular or cellular analysis. The application of genetic information has played an important role in certain aspects of personalized medicine such as pharmacogenomics, and the term was first invented in the genetic background although it has been broadened to encompass a variety of personalization measures [1]. Some use cases of personalized therapies, devices, or technologies that demonstrate...
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...Running Head: PERSONALIZED MEDICINE PERSONALIZED MEDICINE Margaret Barnes SCl115-Introduction to Biology November 07, 2012 PERSONALIZED MEDICINE Personalized Medicine and Modern Genetics Technology: “Introduction” In today’s world DNA sequences are frequently and constantly improving, modern instruments can analyze DNA by the millions within a twenty-four hour period (Mader, 2010, P.178). Because of technology, these instruments have been made available now and in the future for the use of personalized medicinal products. This paper provides an overview of how modern genetic technology may lead to personalized medicine, and to give examples two or more specific benefits of personalized medicine: a discussion of its drawbacks and limitations of the approach to human medicine. “Modern Genetic Technology and Personalized Medicine” Modern technology is constantly growing in our world, for us to understand how modern genetic technology may lead to personalized medicine and the importance personalized medicine. Personalized medicine is the tailoring of medical treatment for an individual with the unique characteristics for each patient. This approach is a scientific...
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...Culture Evaluation: A View into Heritage With the United States continuing to grow, both in population and with views on healthcare, so does the need for continuous change and development in Nursing. The changing demographics and economics of a growing multicultural world and the long-standing disparities in the Health status of people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds has challenged health care providers to consider cultural competence as a priority (Capinha-Bacote, 2002). Patients within the hospitals are of every ethnic group and culture, and at times a mix of each. The term melting pot is used to describe the United States, which also has a tight relation to healthcare as well. For nurses, it is vital to maintain a sense of professionalism and unbiased opinions. Within the culture evaluation, a comparison of beliefs about health maintenance, protection, and restoration will be investigated amongst Asian-American, Caucasian, and Hispanic cultures. Cultural Competence Within such an eclectic amount of cultures, keeping cultural awareness, knowledge, skill, and the way culture is encountered maintains the ability to be culturally competent. Cultural awareness is the self examination and in depth exploration of one’s own cultural and professional background (Capinha-Bacote, 2002). Maintaining a sense of empathy and understanding regarding patient’s culture and beliefs assists in the individuals healing process. Cultural knowledge is the process of seeking and...
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