Why I Chose Pharmacy

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Through my experiences of hardships and seeing the agonizing pain in people who suffer a lot of disadvantages in society can provoke one to strive in making changes. In my early years, while living in Nigeria, I had many personal experiences of the amplitude of illness and its effects on the community. Sometimes the look on the faces of men begs for immediate aid from the shortages in health care. Many individuals suffered from common diseases that escalated to larger problems due to inadequate healthcare professionals to provide diagnoses and proper medications for treatments Moving to the United States was the best thing to happen to my family. I was optimistic in my vision of a bigger and brighter future where I could become a force in society. Unfortunately, my …show more content…
Such interest has fueled my desire to pursue a future that involves giving back to the community. My aim is to obtain the education necessary to become skilled in the field of pharmacy in order to support communities. My goal is to offer care and education to underserved areas in my surrounds and nations across the world like Africa. I intend to use this pharmacy profession as a pathway and significantly impact the pharmacy community. My hope is to use my talents to help others, and I feel that pharmacy will be an appropriate medium to cultivate this interest. It is my goal to earn a doctorate in pharmacy and using my knowledge to serve as a pharmacist. I am very committed to expanding my knowledge in this field and hope to take part in various research opportunities available. I hope as I become more experienced, my volunteer activities will expand as well since I will be able to offer more expertise to those in need. I look forward to building a solid educational foundation that I hope to improve upon by staying alongside any improvements in the field at your

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