Attending physician

can mar communities for generations. My life experiences coupled with incidents from my clerkship stirred an interest in working in underprivileged areas. Meanwhile, the in-depth teaching, mentoring and camaraderie displayed by internal medicine attendings and residents, inspired me to consider the discipline as a possible career path. Besides, compared to the other specialties, internal medicine offered excellent opportunities to develop the robust medical training necessary to treat complex…

Describe your particular interest in attending UNE COM and any contact you have had with UNE COM students, alumni, faculty or clinicians, admissions counselors, student affairs staff, etc. How did these interactions influence your decision to apply? As a student athlete, there have been numerous experiences where I have faced an entirely new roster of teammates. In certain instances, this has caused a lack of fluidity and success. As a future medical student, I tend to view campuses in terms of…

Doctor dolls and silicone stethoscopes created my childhood dream of becoming a physician, but nothing fortified my goals more than the sensations that shot through my nerves as I held an infant for the first time. I see obstetricians as the physicians that bring life or death to the table, and I am willing to hold that pressure on my shoulders. When the present appears dark and the future is looking grey, I will be the doctor who will help women bring an indubitable bundle of joy into the world…

care environments. Patient Handoff refers to, the process of transferring primary authority and responsibility for providing clinical care to a patient from one departing caregiver to one oncoming caregiver. Caregivers include attending physicians, resident physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, and assistant care providers (Patterson, & Wears, 2010). Handoffs serve a critical function in ensuring patient care continuity during…

A family practitioner is known as the first pathway for everyday people to call when any member of the family is sick; a physician who specializes in caring for the entire family, no matter the age or gender. They diagnose and treat a variety of medical issues, but if the problem extends their knowledge the physician will refer the patient to an outside specialist. They monitor the development and overall health of their patients regardless of their current medical state, these visits are…

If you're forced to lend your services to an outsourced agency’s patients when it comes to the safe and priority to keep them healthy you shouldn’t be a healthcare professional. When treating patients inhumanely, unethically or immorality to get to a means (i.e financially, experimentally, etc) it diminishes the process and the outcome. Working during a pandemic or risk of infection among other emergencies are what a provider trains to deal with. The need to use bioethical principles of autonomy…

their most vulnerable when their health is compromised. My extensive hours shadowing has opened my eyes to the fact that many allopathic physicians only treat the physical manifestations of an illness, and not the emotional. Given the holistic nature of osteopathic medicine, the trepidation a patient experiences isn’t disregarded, but addressed. Central to attending to this facet of care is adopting a perspective different from your own.…

Establishing trust requires time and perseverance, but can also be formed via knowledge. Patients trust physicians that understand and can simplistically explain the convoluted diseases they diagnose. The past summer I had the privilege of researching the influenza virus in the Huber lab at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine. I remember…

difficult I.V., assisting in obtaining an almost-champagne spinal tap, and contributing to successful resuscitations. I enjoy the numerous learning opportunities that the wide variety and large volume of patients have to offer. With the guidance of attendings, residents, nurses, and staff, I have learned many practical skills during each patient encounter. I find it fascinating that there is nothing routine in emergency medicine. The uncertainty of what problem may present makes each shift…

inquisitive nature about the world around me, asking questions about anything and everything. Many of these I asked my grandfather, who began his career as a general surgeon in the late 1940s. As a child, he intrigued me with exciting stories about attending medical school during World War II and the advancing field of medicine. By highlighting an unusual ailment, the complex steps he took to cure it, and the gratification he felt afterwards, he breathed life into his stories to both captivate…