Dermatology Personal Statement

Like most of my colleagues, I entered medical school uncertain of specialty choice. However, I soon became interested in dermatology during my first rotation in the clinical years. It was my second week in internal medicine; the case was simple eczema with rash as it looks for me. The dermatology team came, from this presentation, they found out he had mycosis fungoides, and were able to confirm it with multiple skin biopsy. I was fascinated by their work, how they could diagnose and prevent serious complications only from few skin lesions. At that moment, I started thinking about dermatology as my career.

Since that time, dermatology had been in my mind but I have not had the chance to try it during my first year of the clinical rotation, so I decided to take my first summer elective in dermatology to get more exposed to the new field. It was like magic. Busy clinics filled with new patients and those whom have chronic diseases like Cutaneous Lupus and been following for years. We jumped from room to room seeing different interesting cases from itchy eczema on a crying child to mild acne on a teenage girl to a bullous pemphigoid on an old man to the laser room treatment. The next thing I knew, we had a surgery day scheduled so we gowned and …show more content…
My interest in clinical research began during the Research Summer scholarship Course at Florida International University, where I investigated Differences in mortality between weekend and weekday hospital admissions among stroke patients in Florida. The excitement of publishing and presenting in international conferences captivated me. Later that year, I shifted my passion of research toward dermatology as I became involved in several projects, including two published case reports and cohort study examining the effects of Prostaglandin analogs on Alopecia in comparison to topical