personal essay

[uthopeful]

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Hi I was wondering if you guys think I should say why I want to go into osteopathic medicine in particular or if just giving reasons for going into medicine is good enough. With only 500 words it seems hard to fit everything in. I think I have a pretty good essay but I have not talked about osteopathic medicine in particular, just medicine in general.

thanks

 

[DD214_DOC]

The AACOMAS essay is only 500 words? That's nothing, what the hell are we supposed to say?

 

[Blue_guitar9]

I believe AACOMAS allows up to 3,000 characters, which might roughly translate into 500 words. Youre right thats not alot, just be effecient. When I wrote mine it was mostly about the medicine and personal experiences only alittle about osteopathy, that seemed to work. So if I were you I would write whatever you feel is most true to you first, but dont forget to at least mention osteopathy and why you would make a good fit with its ideals.

 

[DD214_DOC]

I'm wondering if my take on osteopathy seems reasonable or a little far-fetched. I had known about osteopathy since my freshman year, but never had a serious interest in it until I began to train in the martial arts, particularly Chinese systems such as Wing Chun and, obviously, JKD.

During my training in these intricate arts, the relationship of mind, body, and spirit became more evident, as well as the relationship of all body systems. How striking someone in a certain place will affect another area of the body. Or how, after training for a long time, things begin to become "second nature"; you perform intricate techniques without conscious thought. I also began to learn that a strike is not just a strike -- there are many more mental and spiritual components.

I have much more elaborating to do and organization of my thoughts, but do you guys think this will just be passed off as BS? It's really difficult for someone who has never practiced these systems to really understand what I'm getting at.

 

[DrLady]

JKDMed,
How about you first write your first draft and send it to couple people for the proof-reading and editing. Then, when you get the feedback, you will know where to lead your statement and how to make it sound really good. Dont worry about how the statement looks halfway, finish it first and then look at it the next morning. Just make sure you go through lots of drafts!

Good Luck! 🙂

 

[Blue_guitar9]

I agree with DrLady, but as far as i know osteopathy has nothing to do with spirituality. So if i were you id stick to the interconnection between mind and body and leave the spirtual mumbo jumbo out because if you try to make a correlate to osteopathic medicine it will make osteopathic medicine sound like a hippy science which it is not, and i think adcoms will agree with me. Also sice we were on the subject of only having 500 words of space, if you mention this I'd do it breifly, not that I dont like where your going with that idea but, and maybe im wrong becasue all PM's are different, I'd think the body of youre PM should have something to do with medicine in some way or another.


P.S. - I do believe spirituality is a great thing to have, especially entering into the field of medicine. I just dont think that it correlates well with the ideals of osteopaty. We all know that medicine cannot heal the soul, only people can.