personal statement medical school

As long as learning continues, life will remain interesting and new opportunities keep surfacing. My passion for learning keep on expanding my horizons, and I soon discovered myself with a plan to come back to school at an age wherein most adults are concerned about raising money to send their child to college, not themselves.

Our families provide the support most of us depend on. As the most basic unit of society, the family is what all of us cherish above all other things. My wife and my daughter, and also a part of my extended family, became my motivation to pursue this plan. I have seen how family members positively impacted on the patients at the hospice where I work, and this drove me to see education to become a full-pledged family nurse.

Every patient I serve in the hospice is not just another individual that I need to take care of. I see the whole family as my customer in this career. The sickness of one member maybe caused by a sickness of another member, and as such, one person affects the entire family. Our families are integral to our personal well being – a realization that seeped deep in my consciousness, and here I am now, planning to take a career that would make me a reliable health care practitioner that an entire family can depend on.

The field of health care has drawn my interest, not only because of my work in the hospice but due to my unforgettable experience caring for my mother who succumbed to a fatal disease. When my mother is being taken care in a hospice, I saw some outstanding care givers who performed their job with exceptional dedication and commitment. But some are simply not drawing me any inspiration. For a person to enter this job, the right motivation must be there to be so that the sufferings of many families may be eased. I am glad that so far, I have done that in my career.

And as I get to face the prospect of returning to school at the age of 40, the benefits of pursuing my specific career path is very clear. My foundation and experience were shaped by working in a related field, where precious lessons were drawn up. While working in a hospice was rewarding in many ways, I am convinced that serving the less fortunate members of my community is a lot more fulfilling when I take the path of family nursing practice. Many remote areas of Kansas do not have a physician, and a family nursing practitioner fills in the gap. They serve the entire population as the primary health care giver, where patients suffering from varied ailments are attended to regardless of age and gender. Such as responsibility is awesome, and I am willing to rest such load upon my shoulders and strive hard to live that up everyday if given the opportunity.

The importance of continually educating myself is vital to my status as a returning student. I would not see this as an end in my pursuit of higher educational pursuit at _____ University but I would rest on it as a solid foundation to continuously build my education. In a fast changing environment like the medical field, the quality of service depends on how a practitioner stays on top of emerging trends. I have felt the urge of embarking in this new journey to get nearer my life’s goal. My scholastic record gives me confidence that the _____ program will satisfy my expectations, and may even surpass all my prior academic success. I expect that my teenage daughter will be inspired to discover that a person is never too old to achieve new and higher career goals.

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