The Reason Why Do You Want to Pursue a Career in Healthcare

There was never a big Eureka moment, and medicine is not something that I’ve wanted to do from a particularly young age. Instead, I think of medicine as a passion I grew into. In the past year, I have had to make many decisions concerning my desired career path, I have had to consider how I want to contribute to the world around me. It’s become clear to me that medicine is the career path for me, through it I will be able to satisfy my curiosity for science while still providing for my community in profound and meaningful ways

As a naturally inquisitive person, I have developed a profound interest in biological sciences and the human body, especially in the field of internal medicine. Losing two grandparents to complications with diabetes fueled my determination to find out more about the disease. It prompted me to carry out my own research through which I found out about the Jordanian diabetes crisis... As a Jordanian,, this epidemic was of great interest to me, for weeks I read about disease prevention, environmental risk factors and diet and I began to realize that The prevalence of diabetics in Jordan is largely due to the small population of doctors and healthcare providers, as well as the high costs of treatment which make treatment inaccessible to vulnerable populations. In most developed countries, type two diabetes has a much lower fatality rate than it does in Jordan. My research inspired my decision to pursue a career in healthcare, by becoming aware of the challenges that my community faces, I have come to see medicine is an opportunity for me to contribute to my community and help combat the health crisis that it faces.

I first became interested in medicine when I met Ahmad. I met Ahmad and his family while volunteering at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. Ahmad and his family had just recently relocated to Amman from Gaza in search of a better quality of life. When they got to Amman however, Ahmad’s father, a construction worker and the main provider for the family, got sick. He suffered multiple complications with his untreated type 2 diabetes which left him unable to work. The family was left with no choice but to pull their oldest son, sixteen year old Ahmad, out of school so that he can help provide for his family. This experience demonstrated to me the prominent role healthcare plays in people’s lives. If Ahmad’s family had any access to healthcare the quality of their lives may have been improved and maybe Ahmad wouldn’t have had to leave his education behind. I began to realize that medicine is not just hard science, and how I, as a physician, can help offer families like Ahmed’s a better quality of life.

Over the past few months, I have started to really think about the contributions I would like to make to the world. Experiences like the one I had at the zaatari refugee camp have revealed to me the huge impact of medicine on people’s lives. Medicine is an opportunity for me to utilize my interest in science to offer people a better standard of living. In many ways, I am doing this for the people in my community that do not have access to quality healthcare, for people like Ahmad, the victims off circumstance that could have had so much more but instead were limited by a system that failed to provide for them. The next years of my life that I will spend studying are n investment not only in myself, as human being, but also in the community that I plan to serve.