Personal Statement for Medical School Application

Personal Statement

“The person, who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.”

These words of Leo Buscalia comprehensively explain an individual who has no aim to achieve in his life. As life is not a bed of roses, it gives us several dares, but the frontrunner is he who meets with these contends, and shows himself as an outstanding human being. Besides, subsistence has dragged countless disputes to me, and I would like to cope with them courageously and daringly. Education by no means stops- the entire oceans and seas of acquaintance are not capable of put my desires of knowledge out. That is the manner I am, and only due to this rationale I am surviving my life. I think myself as a lucky and privileged person and I will feel to be proud of being the student of medicine. I have forever and a day taken on in a development of inquiring for achievement and victory; in anticipation of finding the conception of “triumph”.

Why I am passionate to be a doctor of medicine, this question has been asked over more than a few times. In the direction of widespread approach, the concepts of attaining the capacity to serve community provide me with considerable personal contentment and offer the consciousness that ventures of my life have been settled on in a helpful means. Intended for being a doctor is the desire of my life; and for carrying out this endeavor, I am delicately prepared to give myself over.

Inclination for becoming a medical doctor is not a recent ambition, but an upshot of happening over my existence. At the age of six years when I was living with my grand-parents quite happily in “Eastern Nigeria”. My grand-ma had an attack of “STROKE” in summer 1991, which through her a sufferer of “left hemiplegia”. Straight away, my immature years twisted on its head as I viewed the intellectual, bodily and sentimental distress my beforehand vigorous grand-mother was gone through to practice day by day. There was no relevant treatment for my granny to deal with her illness. I became her nurse, making sure that she got her medicines.

It was the rational for me to be motivated of becoming a doctor. Together with ...