Please describe your motivation towards becoming a PA.
At this stage of my life I expected myself to be in graduate school finishing my studies and running around for job interviews. Instead I found myself mulling over what to do next about my future. Even though I always had a love for medicine while studying chemistry and biology during high school, I been pondering over what career path to take since my junior year of undergraduate degree I always asked myself what is my purpose in this world? I do not want my life in an order of a regular human being that eat, work and sleep every day. I wanted to change someone’s life or I want to change this world someway. I wanted to be a role model to someone; I wanted to give peace in someone’s mind
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I started off with watching YouTube videos, going to library, volunteering and ended with shadowing a PA. When I entered university, I chose a major that involved biological, behavioral, social/cultural and environmental aspects of health care. I appreciate my academic background because it has given me a firm understanding of the human body through science courses, physiological processes and a psychological grasp of people and personality. Throughout my oclleg elife I volunteered at a womens health facility, caring for single women with kids for emotional and spiritual needs. I grew to have a great love for humanity as I saw emotional sickness and brokenness stem from unhealthy realaitonships and life’s hardships. Being a volunteer at the single mums health clinic had given me the opportunity to to grow in specific areas such as: patience, emotional support for others, emotional control for myself and gaining a gentle character in bearing with all types of people in various difficult situations. In addition I was a nursing assistant, Interventional radiology assistant and an ER volunteer at a non-profit hospitals called Pinnacle health and Penn State Hershey medical center. Durign my volunteering I got to see various roles of nurses, doctors and physician assissntat. Physicoian assistant stood out the mood to me regarding taking care of patients that need emotional, physical and spiritual needs. There example also motivated my desire to become a physician assistant by taking care of people hollistacially. Volunteering at emergency department allowed me to vwitness a broad range of clinical presentations from fractures to STEMIs and even cardiopulmonary arrests. I was also exposed to good foundation of symptom presentation, treatments and diagnosis. In addition I had opputunity to shadow PAs in the areas of Family medicine and cardiology. During thsese encounters, I gained understanding of the PAs