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Looking back and thinking about my decision of pursuing medicine as a career, I realize that there has been an array of personal and clinical experiences that brought me where I am today. The first time I realized internal medicine was my calling was at the beginning of my clinical clerkships, when I started to rotate in a variety of clinical settings, seeing a blend of medical conditions that urged me to think deeply about patients’ symptoms and to find the pathophysiologic root of their condition. I have chosen internal medicine not only because of the constant challenging medical cases, but also because it enables me to build a long term rapport with my patients and their families and to teach them the importance of prevention. Also, in Romania the residency training is mainly straight into subspecialty. I have always enjoyed the analytical thinking of all branches of internal medicine and having to choose one meant missing out on others. The diversity of the field, …show more content…

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