Personal Statement

When I graduated from high school and had to choose a major in college I had to think about what kind of life I wanted and what career would allow me to a have life like that. The advice I could relate the most to, was from my father that one should have a life and work where one can have a peace of mind and go to sleep every night with a clear conscience. This asked for a career choice that holds its ethical values in high regard. When I started meeting different professionals, family members, friends one thing became clear that almost all professionals complained of ethical problems they face, being forced to do things they didn’t feel were right or they just had to do them to get things going. Two professions stood tall above all this problem,

Choosing Medicine out of the two was a difficult choice but going back to the basic principle helped me make it as I considered and the ethical value of professions I found the Medicine to be on a slightly higher ground and yes let’s face it is a bit easier for doctors to make a living than teachers at least that’s the case in 3rd world. Thus started the journey for my medical career going through pre-medical classes to the start of Medical College in the winter of 2008. I started medical college with the zeal and excitement of a new medical student. In the start I was fascinated by scrubs and proud attitude of surgeons and wanted to be like them, a surgeon. Also I wanted to pursue all my career in home country with no idea about health system abroad. But in first year of Medical College I attended a rheumatology conference in which lectures were delivered by American trained physicians. It was the first time I was awed by their great knowledge base, skills and confidence and decided to look into physician training in USA. From the start of Medical College I also discovered my passion for helping other and teaching when I started helping my class fellows and my juniors in medical college with their assignments and learning difficult

On These rotations I came to know different medical specialties and how they treat patients during everyday hospital wards, outpatient clinics and emergency room. In such rotations and continuing clerkships in 4th and final year of medical college had me reevaluating and rethinking my choice of specialty, where different aspects of each specialty caught my attention, from the fine detailed anatomy knowledge of radiologists but lacking patient interaction to precise interventions of surgery. The field that captivated me was Internal medicine by its close patient-doctor relationship at all stages of healing and life care, an extremely wide range of health problems seen by a physician every day. All that aside the aspect of Internal Medicine that appealed the most to me was the analytical and logical reasoning coupled with a problem solving approach in everyday care of the patients. It would be no exaggeration to say that I felt like a Sherlock Holmes cracking the mysteries of medicine helping alleviate the suffering of others. This aspect of intellectual stimulation was minimal in other fields of Medicine in my experience. Thus motivated by one on one patient interaction, being able to directly help others and high degree of intellectual stimulation I choose to pursue Internal Medicine as a specialty. I had further exposure to the field of