SERV Scholarship Essay

As stated above, I have a wide range of settings I am interested in working in the future. In order to decide which path is the best for me I will need to gain a wide variety of experiences by witnessing the many facets of the healthcare system. In the past, I have been able to volunteer on a medical mission trip abroad and shadow an urgent care doctor and a family physician. Although these experiences have made be even more fascinated and further increased my interest in serving as a doctor, I have yet to have a holistic view of medicine. This is why I would like to volunteer in the SERV program.
Volunteering in the Emergency Department will allow me to see how a team of healthcare professionals comprised of doctors, nurses, technicians, and etc. works. It will provide me with an opportunity to interact with a diverse group of patients and therefore gain direct patient care experience. In addition, I will also gain experience about careers in medicine by witnessing how a renowned hospital …show more content…
Too often I have heard and read that doctors are ignorant of processing life through intuitive, emotive processes; instead they treat patients completely through a rational analysis—and this strains the doctor-patient relationship. However, in my experiences shadowing two doctors this hasn’t been the case; the doctors I have shadowed were most definitely able to both read and communicate emotion. Since neither of these doctors treated patients with serious health problems, I want to learn whether this doctor-patient relationship is different in a large hospital where patients are often facing far severe conditions. As a future doctor, I definitely want to be able to communicate with my patients in a way that is both comfortable and relatable to them. The SERV program will enable me to get a head start by giving me the opportunity to observe and learn from the doctors whom I aspire to be in the