Describe the setting in which you envision conducting your medical career.

[JDAD]

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Also include how and why you think this setting would help fulfill your interests related to the practice of medicine.

Fly at it!

 

[EvoDevo]

Why don't you just straight up state that you're asking SDN to help you finish the UTSW and/or TAMU secondaries? 🙄

No disrepect, but this is an intensely personal question. It's going to be different for everyone. For example, I mentioned an interest in academic medicine. Is that what YOU want?

 

[futuremsfdoc]

ideally i'd be a joint-faculty at grady and the cdc studying infectious diseases and ways to reduce their impact in latin america. lots of traveling would be involved, i'd do public health work while still having a clinic, and it would set me up in the future for entering the field of public health policy. seeing patients 24/7 isn't really my idea of a good time, so i think i'd be happiest if i could integrate public health work into my practice of medicine somehow.

 

[MsEvolution]

In a migrant community health clinic. Treating the seasonal farming communities in a small rural area where I'll bump into my patients at the farmstand and they will call me "doctorcita" and the farmers will sometimes offer me a basketful of their crop in appreciation. 😳 Simple. Personal.

Of course, I also plan to be an active advocate for these communities. I plan to continue collaborating with a host of committees and coalitions working to bring better quality and better access to healthcare for the vulnerable.

 

[JDAD]

Why don't you just straight up state that you're asking SDN to help you finish the UTSW and/or TAMU secondaries? 🙄

No disrepect, but this is an intensely personal question. It's going to be different for everyone. For example, I mentioned an interest in academic medicine. Is that what YOU want?

Well done EVO, you caught me again!!!

I am just looking for some ideas, but you really have no idea what I am going to write. Just because you're a mod now doesn't mean you get to acuse me of copying. Chill a little.

All of the answers will be different, but I assume they will get a lot of cookie cutter answers like "I want to be a primary care physician who practices in an underserved area of remote Texas brush country," just to go along with their mission statement.

I do not know all of the options out there, and I was attempting to get an idea of my possible options. I know I like reaserch, I know that I like the academic side of medicine, but i am also intensly interested in the practical application of medicine and the patient interaction. I don't want to be stuck in a lab for the rest of my life, but I wouldn't mind teaching later on. I guess the best fit for me would be to practice at a university hospital and one day teach part time. Who knows. What does everyone else think?

 

[47534]

I know I like reaserch, I know that I like the academic side of medicine, but i am also intensly interested in the practical application of medicine and the patient interaction. I don't want to be stuck in a lab for the rest of my life, but I wouldn't mind teaching later on. I guess the best fit for me would be to practice at a university hospital and one day teach part time. Who knows. What does everyone else think?

So why don't you just write about those ideas? It seems you already have a good idea of what you want. Why does it matter what everyone else thinks?

 

[EvoDevo]

Well done EVO, you caught me again!!!

I am just looking for some ideas, but you really have no idea what I am going to write. Just because you're a mod now doesn't mean you get to acuse me of copying. Chill a little.

All of the answers will be different, but I assume they will get a lot of cookie cutter answers like "I want to be a primary care physician who practices in an underserved area of remote Texas brush country," just to go along with their mission statement.

I'm not saying anything to you that I wouldn't have before I was a mod, JDAD. I was just saying that you might as well indicate which secondaries you're trying to answer, as several of us on this board have already been through the rigamarole with these schools.

As far as the answer, I recommend being honest. Even if you say, "I have no strong ideas, but here's what I'm thinking." For heaven's sake, don't put down rural med/urban med unless you have some link/ECs to back this up. I spoke with several adcoms about this last year, and they said that if an applicant puts these things down w/o supporting stuff, their app gets thrown in the trash. No lie.

I do not know all of the options out there, and I was attempting to get an idea of my possible options. I know I like reaserch, I know that I like the academic side of medicine, but i am also intensly interested in the practical application of medicine and the patient interaction. I don't want to be stuck in a lab for the rest of my life, but I wouldn't mind teaching later on. I guess the best fit for me would be to practice at a university hospital and one day teach part time. Who knows.

Say that. make it personal. Listen to the inner voice, grasshopper.

Having said that, why not mention an interest in widening the scope of evidence-based medicine? You sound like you've thought about it. Above all, make your secondary as personal as possible.

good luck!

 

[aparecida]

I want to open a gynecology practice with a reputation for being a comfortable, nonintimidating, nonscary place to go -- someplace that will get women to see the gyno who would otherwise be too reluctant to go. I hear of so many women who hate going to the gynecologist, so they just don't go, and I know their health suffers as a result.

 

[JDAD]

Thanks evo, good stuff as usual.

But I do have a question, what is evidence-based medicine? I may have thought about it, but I am not sure what you are specifically talking about.

 

[EvoDevo]

Thanks evo, good stuff as usual.

But I do have a question, what is evidence-based medicine? I may have thought about it, but I am not sure what you are specifically talking about.

It's the practice of medicine based upon controlled scientific studies rather than anecdote (as most medicine still is practiced).

See this entry for an outstanding example of EBM and osteoarthritis of the knee:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...ve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12110735

 

[Tofurkey]

I would like to be in the field of internal medicine, and be known as the expert in some field--such as autoimmune diseases or something. To know that patients have heard of me all over the country and are coming to me because of my expertise would be amazing. I'd also like to be a lecturer and faculty member at a med school as well, and publish prolifically.

 

[45408]

I'd like to work in a hospital environment, with occasional forays into Latin America for MSF-type ventures, because I'm minoring in Spanish, and I feel a call to do short-term work like that.

 

[pseudoknot]

Amidst post-apocalyptic ruins.

 

[EvoDevo]

Amidst post-apocalyptic ruins.

Best answer I've heard yet. 👍

 

[Uegis]

I would like to be a gastroenterologist at a university hospital and hopefully teaching. The advances made in the field the past few years are amazing, and the technology involved in procedures is fascinating. I would most likely focus on pnacreatic diseases, like cancer or pancreatitis. I hope to be doing research too, so a university hospital is ideal.

 

[Swack]

All of the answers will be different, but I assume they will get a lot of cookie cutter answers like "I want to be a primary care physician who practices in an underserved area of remote Texas brush country," just to go along with their mission statement.

Hahahaha that is pretty much what I put for my UTSW secondary (If Evo didn't catch you I would have 😉). I guess it does sound trite but I can't help it if it is the truth. I could have tried to approach it differently in my essay, but I think I would have lost the message if I tried to. Out of all the cookie cutter answers, some of them have to be genuine right? 😛

 

[lattimer13]

i wanna practice medicine in a nudist colony where everyone is female, young, hot, pays out of pocket, and has a BMI of less than 17%.