Choosing to study medicine is not a decision I have taken lightly. It is not a career I have wanted to do since a particularly young age, but a life changing event prompted my choice. I thought very long and hard before deciding to apply for medical school. The same is true for deciding to apply for the Physician Assistant program.
My story began at the age of 10 years, when I woke up at 3:00 am at my mother's scream because my father suddenly became unable to speak and move. We discovered that he developed paralysis in the left part of his body. Doctors were reluctant to determine the cause - a stroke or a brain hemorrhage, therefore did not give the correct treatment at the time. This resulted in paralysis for the rest of his life. At this moment, my life changed and I was proone to tears, anxiety and suffering that lasted until his death years later. …show more content…
Although it was a crazy idea, I realized that it could be achieved by having excellent grades and attending medical school.
Working as a house officer, known as an intern in the United States, various periods of work experience taught me much about medicine. Ain Shams university hospital gave me the opportunity to practice many specialities, such as emergency, internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics, and gynecology. Whilst fleeting, these visits to the departments highlighted the variety and diversity of the fascinating specialties medicine encompasses.
After completing my studies, I practiced at the police hospital in Cairo where I worked for two years as a resident in the Department of Internal Medicine. Then I moved to work in Shama hospital and began a study of the master degree in Hepatology and Gastroenterology. Then I became a member of the Egyptian Society of Liver Diseases and participated twice in the conference of the American Society of Gastroenterology in Chicago and New
My story began at the age of 10 years, when I woke up at 3:00 am at my mother's scream because my father suddenly became unable to speak and move. We discovered that he developed paralysis in the left part of his body. Doctors were reluctant to determine the cause - a stroke or a brain hemorrhage, therefore did not give the correct treatment at the time. This resulted in paralysis for the rest of his life. At this moment, my life changed and I was proone to tears, anxiety and suffering that lasted until his death years later. …show more content…
Although it was a crazy idea, I realized that it could be achieved by having excellent grades and attending medical school.
Working as a house officer, known as an intern in the United States, various periods of work experience taught me much about medicine. Ain Shams university hospital gave me the opportunity to practice many specialities, such as emergency, internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics, and gynecology. Whilst fleeting, these visits to the departments highlighted the variety and diversity of the fascinating specialties medicine encompasses.
After completing my studies, I practiced at the police hospital in Cairo where I worked for two years as a resident in the Department of Internal Medicine. Then I moved to work in Shama hospital and began a study of the master degree in Hepatology and Gastroenterology. Then I became a member of the Egyptian Society of Liver Diseases and participated twice in the conference of the American Society of Gastroenterology in Chicago and New