Medical Career Goals

Becoming a medical professional has been a dream of mine for a while. My goal is to be apart of World Medical Mission, or an association like this one, and travel the world providing aid to the people that don’t have access to not only vaccines and treatments that we have here in the United States, but also the necessities to live. The World of Medical Mission has many programs in dozens of countries. Every year they dispatch hundreds of medical professionals overseas on shorter-term assignments aiding people living in barren and poverty-stricken nations. My second career goal is to become a Dermatologist. This is the branch of medicine dealing with diseases, the hair, nails, and skin. My last career choice is a Nurse Practitioner. Unlike a
At this time I knew that I wanted to go into medicine already but 2 years before this class was the moment I figured out that I wanted to do this. Going to Guatemala on a mission trip changed so much for me. Sometimes I wonder if one week was able to show and teach me so much about the world that we are living in, then what could two weeks do? Two months? It’s because I truly believe that I was given such a supportive family, intense interest in science, and a love for people for the people who weren't as lucky as I was. When I arrived in Antigua, from the first all the way to the last day, I had never experienced so much love from complete strangers. Strangers who were living under tarps or didn't have shoes and I never, not once, heard complaints about anything. The amount of faith they had and love would bring tears to my eyes. It was a time like this that I wished I could give them more. I realized that with the life that I was given I had the opportunity and the recourses that I needed to help people around the world that don’t have the opportunities that so many others