EM Personal Statement

I’ve been asked why I’ve decided to pursue emergency medicine as a specialty too many times to count. Every time, I end up asking some form of the same question: “If you were in a sudden emergency, be it on a playground, in a mall, on a plane, etc., what kind of doctor would you want around you?” Throughout most of my medical school career, I couldn’t decide which specialty I liked the best. I enjoyed internal medicine, surgery, and pediatrics. I loved OB/Gyn. But none of these really called out to me like I always imagined “the right specialty” would. It wasn’t until I shadowed in the ER that it clicked for me. Emergency medicine truly is the best specialty: it’s the perfect mixture of all of the specialties. It’s a field that stresses quick thinking and risk stratification, a general comfort with codes and traumas, and an attraction for procedures. It’s the field that caters perfectly to my desire to learn as well as my affinity for variety – there’s never a dull moment in the ER. Just knowing that, one day, I will have to be able to …show more content…
Apart from allowing myself to stay involved with EM, the research that I’ve done has given me a newfound appreciation for the teamwork, time, and dedication that goes into clinical research, whether it’s a large-scale, federally-granted clinical trial or a local, privately-funded study. Moreover, with the emphasis on EMS research, I’ve been able to get a much better understanding of the intricacies and importance of the prehospital