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PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE PERSONAL STATEMENT
Subject: Santa’s making a list, and checking it twice!
Do a good deed this year. If you are bilingual, join our new student interpretation service and be trained as a professional interpreter!
This e-mail sent the message to six hundred medical students that Our medical interpretation service was open for business.Each of my patient experiences this past year has been uniquely rewarding; but my most satisfying physician-patient interaction involved a group of people I never met. Working towards improving the access and quality of care available to the growing population of limited English proficiency patients at my medical center even surpassed the joy of delivering a newborn. From developing role play scenarios for interpreter training, to creating publicity schemes to increase awareness of our service, I am constantly trying to enhance the patient care I deliver, not only with my stethoscope, but also with my creativity, as I find myself steadily preoccupied by the interpretation service. This, along with other experiences I have had both here and abroad, have reinforced my passion for the unique, macroscopic form of service that preventive medicine adds to the field of health care, enabling physicians to empower entire communities while simultaneously treating individual patients.
As a counselor at Camp M, a summer program for underprivileged inner city youth, I was exposed to one of the secrets of sustainable medicine, empowerment. At Camp M we are focused on building self esteem, critical thinking, communication and decision making skills by exposing one hundred and fifty children from Queens, NY to some of the most thrilling and unique experiences they might ever have. Through this encounter, I feel we enabled our participants to believe that they deserved the best and could accomplish their dreams. This helped form the basis of my views on health care by providing a service that will enhance their self-esteem and empower them to make positive behavioral decisions, both social and medical. While training counselors for Camp M, I found myself straying from the standardized curriculum, instead creating my own content filled with games and counselor led activities, which is currently used nationwide. When I observed the impact of the counselors I had trained, I was motivated by the far reaching influence and have since gone on to train more counselors, religious education teachers and most recently, train other students as well as physicians to establish interpretation programs in their hospitals — all small efforts to improve access to quality health care.
My internal medicine clerkship included time at the Y C community center. In addition to providing quality comprehensive medical care, the center addresses the full spectrum of patients needs including nutrition, career counseling, insurance advising and social work. The clinic’s success hinges on the physicians ability to understand the pathophysiology of complicated disease processes while truly taking an interest in their patients. Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine is a continuum, I think it is impossible to practice either specialty without comprehensive understanding of both fields.
During medical school, I received a federal cultural diversity grant to study health care disparity. I worked with Dr. A as he cared for the indigenous Islanders from Island City ghettos. After long days at the clinic, I accompanied Dr. A and a band of volunteers as they erected screening tents in front of the state funded housing projects to educate the largest diabetic population in America. Dr. A reached out, providing deserved health care to whomever he could. As part of his program, a rigorous curriculum was developed to train volunteers as health care providers and educators –promoting my belief that by empowering volunteers to empower the local community, exponential change is possible.
I aspire to join a residency program that emphasizes both health care access and quality; and look forward to mastering patient care and management from enthusiastic physicians through formal didactics and hands-on training. My main goal is to emerge from residency with the clinical knowledge, technical skill, and confidence to treat my patients effectively. Earning a Masters in Public Health will teach me the skills of impact assessment, policy composition and epidemiology. The methodology of ethical research and program planning will also be essential as I embark on a career in community based medicine. I want to craft health care systems similar to Y C for the future, by improving efficiency, accessibility and quality, along all color and language lines; which I believe is a step towards improving health care access. On an international level, one of my goals is to collaborate with organizations abroad working towards that same goal by mobilizing local communities to prevent and treat disease.
Primary health care for millions of disempowered Americans is a twenty minute meeting following four hours in a waiting area outside the emergency room. For others, care is often limited by language, cost, and insurance company guidelines. Abroad, health care is often a luxury. It has been shown that improving access to health care and screening services leads to fewer inpatient admissions and complications. Through preventive medicine, physicians can go beyond diagnosing, treating and referring—we can make an active effort to improve the access and quality of health care available to all. An education in public health, epidemiology and research technique is a necessary supplement to board certification in internal medicine. Most important, however, is an environment of intellectual, forward thinking individuals who are optimistic about change and who want to enhance the quality of health care to their patients and their community, with their creativity, passion and drive along with their stethoscopes.
