It is not the symptom that defines a patient; it is the whole broad outlook. I learned Internal Medicine is the only specialty that intertwines all the fields in it. I remember my 22-year patient who presented with generalized seizures associated with altered mental status and had a rapidly progressive weakness of all her four limbs. She had a history of seizure disorder for which she was on medications and she had not had an episode for past 5 years. All her test came out to be normal and we could find a proper underlying cause for her present condition. As the resident in charge of her case, I started digging further into her history and was able to find that she used to have episodes of severe abdominal pain and also was photosensitive. …show more content…
With more than three year of clinical experiences in terms of Observership, Externship and Research in United States, I got get myself familiarized with healthcare delivery system, using EMR and writing proposals for my study. I worked with different subspecialties of medicine like cardiology and endocrinology, which help me understand my patient’s issues better when I worked in Internal medicine. All these opportunity also got me closer to Internal Medicine as I closely worked with medicine team in treating issues their medical issues. I loved the multidisciplinary team patient care and reinforced the importance of being a team player. I joined the Department of Endocrine at Weill Cornell Medical College as a research fellow. My role was to write the proposal for the thyroid study, collect and analyze data. It was on finding out a newer diagnostic and treatment model for rare thyroid cancers with prostate specific membrane antigen. As a result of my effort, I presented the abstract of my research at the 2014 American Association of Endocrine Surgeons conference. This work has helped me to improve my analytic and organizational skills with a deeper understanding in various endocrine conditions. This training gave me insight into the potential in Internal medicine and further strengthened my resolution to seek a challenging and rewarding Internal Medicine residency training in the United States. I miss my clinical practice where I assess the patient, come up with management and plan, coordinating the care with other doctors and educating them. To further keep in touch with my clinical experience, I kept in touch with patients by volunteering in couple of free clinics even while I am doing