Essay On Becoming An Internist

“Be the change you wish to see in the world” is a statement that I now live by as an adult. As a child, I have always had aspirations of becoming a physician. However, at that stage, I did not understand the difficulty of addressing health and medicine. This “change” occurred when I finally realized the complexity of my identity and observed the health inequality of a specific group of people. My goal is to become an internist and pursue a career in academic medicine to address the health disparities of an underserved population, the minority Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer (LGBTIQ) community. My overall objective is to change the way people perceive medicine and academic medicine.
I have asked myself many times why medicine. At first, I did not know the answer or even where to begin to answer the question. Now, I truly believe that it is my faith, compassion, empathy, selflessness, and my thirst for knowledge and learning that has guided me to become a physician. Medicine is a field that is constantly changing based on research and developments in new technology. I simply want a career in which I never stop learning and to translate the knowledge I gain to a population that it will benefit.
As I matriculated into college, I still had a dream of becoming a doctor. I started taking the pre-requisites for medical …show more content…
I feel as if it is no longer enough for physicians to treat and diagnose patients. I believe that in order to effectively combat health disparities in the LGBTIQ community, physicians need to address stigma, use the empirical evidence from research to combat policies, and become a medical activist. I hope future practitioners of medicine embody these characteristics regardless of their field of study. In the end, I want to help a marginalized group of people, to inspire, to educate, and teach future