Fun Thread: Summarize your personal statement in one sentence!

[907914]

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I've got some spare time in between classes/finals/writing secondaries so here is a fun thread!

I'll start:

Joined the army as a lab tech, but the lab is lame so I started doing phlebotomy and realized patients are pretty cool!


This is going to be lame.

 

[Caterpillar34]

My mom had a miscarriage, I talked with a cancer patient, I saw some global healthcare disparities and now I want to be a doctor.

 

[deleted972488]

I decided to get a PhD instead of going to medical school, but then I got cancer, started volunteering to help other cancer patients, and got interested in medicine again.

 

[theKingLT]

I sucked at sports, but then got swole, and also patients and stuff

 

[deleted967981]

A mystery illness as a kid sparked my interest in medicine, became a teen mom and put that on the back burner for a while, re-discovered my love for people and medicine in my 30s while serving in a rural, underserved area.

 

[Kracin]

I like science, people suffer from diseases, I want to be a doctor to use science and stop the suffering.

 

[peanuttbuttah]

I took a medical job sort of by accident and fell in love with taking care of sick kids; pleasetakemeimdesperate.

 

[Jeremy Bearimy]

I tried a bunch of other healthcare things, I really did, but it turns out the only thing I actually wanna do is treat LGBT kids and women, so please let me (bonus: my sport made me good at it, I promise).

 

[Lucca]

MD PS: I like science and I want to help people

MD/PhD statement: I REALLY like science and I want to help people.

 

[DokterMom]

I've got some spare time in between classes/finals/writing secondaries so here is a fun thread!

I'll start:

Joined the army as a lab tech, but the lab is lame so I started doing phlebotomy and realized patients are pretty cool!


This is going to be lame.

So not lame. In fact, I'd argue that if you can't summarize your main idea into a coherent sentence, that will bleed through your statement

 

[Phoebus Apollo]

I wanted to be a doctor but that seemed cliche, so I tried a bunch of other things and realized that nothing’s quite like medicine, and i’m okay w being cliche if it means i get a career that gives me a reason to get up every day

 

[jamaica jan sun princess]

Accounting is unfulfilling and boring, I went searching for a new career and discovered I love science and medicine, and I want to spend my time helping people.

 

[Alexander Brosef]

I want to be a doctor for the same four reasons everyone does: chicks, money, power, and chicks.

 

[Dan2010iel]

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[Hass_Love_Fitness]

Wanted to be an astrophysicist, became a mathematician, gave birth to a special needs child, started a successful business and at 28 decided medicine was for me.

 

[stayathomemom]

I'm a mom, please oh please let me in

 

[peanuttbuttah]

reading these gets me so amped that I might have to opportunity to work with you peeps some day

 

[Sephirakra]

I studied Asian literature in college, so I can add flavor to a med school class despite being woefully unqualified. Also, I did medical research for a bunch of years.

 

[Cornfed101]

My wife struggled with infertility, and as an engineer, I was sad I couldn’t fix it; healing people is way cooler than fixing stuff. (although I will still have a sick garage when I'm an attending)

 

[RTC19]

I started volunteering at a peds hospice because I wanted to do something for the community of other bereaved parents, fell in love with it and now never want to leave.

 

[deleted976595]

I liked science then my parent was diagnosed with a terminal illness, served as their caretaker, realized I like medicine too, did some political advocacy for healthcare access for patients of said terminally ill disease, realized I could make an even bigger impact as a doctor to be able to both treat and advocate

 

[Moko]

I was a healer in WoW and a physician in my raid group said that I should consider medicine given my knack for remembering useless information.

 

[capriccio]

 

[seanm028]

Don't you guys have to take a certain number of charity cases each year like the lawyers do?

 

[dwarfplanet]

No extraordinary circumstances or epiphanies, but I've got a passion for working with patients and the underserved which I've demonstrated, and I never want to stop! (please let me in)

 

[drdreyman]

I saw doctors be doctors doing doctor stuff and thought it was pretty cool. I did some teaching, and I liked it. I helped some people, and I loved it. Also I frickin luv science

 

[sweatytshirt]

I'm an army brat turned army medic; please let me in.

 

[TravelingMedicine]

Medicine is an opportunity for me to blend my village's values and my desire to help people.

 

[Crassus]

Had a surgery experience that initially got me interested in the physician-patient relationship and science, got involved in research and patient contact experiences, confirmed my desire to apply science to helping patients through shadowing experiences and said patient contact experiences.

 

[Dr.Toboggan]

It's crappier than I remembered it.

(lol I had to write one for my pre-med committee months ago and I just now looked at it since then. Obviously still haven't submitted, this is the last thing I'm holding out on. RIP me.)

 

[Med Ed]

I have no idea what I am doing.

 

[catnip12]

I tried it all. Poverty. moving out as a kid. Drugs. Addiction. Met some misundertood folks along the way (cause I’d become one of them). Decided to change some things.

 

[diasterdream]

Because of disadvantaged background, I decided I wanted to give back and volunteer. Through these experiences, I realized that I can use medicine as a tool to serve those who are underserved.

 

[907914]

New rule: You are only allowed to use one punctuation in the middle of your sentence!

 

[1996-]

i wrote about the cyclical nature of history, and how healthcare and other labors of love were important in telling my family's story of migration