My pathway of wanting to become a doctor is spectacularly unimpressive. I started my undergrad with an interest in bio and decided that biomed would be a fun yet challenging major. At the time I had just graduated from high school without knowing what the word "study" even meant (with a 2.5ish gpa) and I picked the major more to prove to myself that I was smarter than what people interpreted me as from highschool (bad reason I know, but I had an ego that needed caressing). My major being biomed, I was naturally exposed to a number of medical related professions and that of the physician always appealed to me. That is, the autonomy, diagnostic aspect, assistance of other on the most personal and essential level, and of course the prestige and money always appealed to me.
So I started a clinical research job that would expose me to a variety of surgeries in a variety of clinics. Every single operation I witnessed overwhelmed me and my desire to be in the field, doing exactly what those physicians were doing, and those days I left work with a huge smile on my face. When the time came for me to perform similar surgeries on animals, that feeling intensified. It was nothing short of exhilarating. The rush of "being a doctor", even to mice and hamsters was undeniable. When I started shadowing other physicians and volunteering at a hospital by my school, I saw nothing that was able to push me away from the career, and more impressively, neither have the pessimists on SDN, so I figure I'm on the right path.
But its tough to spin this into a compelling and complete personal statement. Hardly 6 pages 🙂
