Living in a town at a country border that is few miles away from an active war zone, witnessing doctors coming from all parts of the country to offer medical help to the injured had my full admiration to the noble job they did and how brave it is to risk your own life to save others. I have got the chance to meet some of these brave doctors and it felt great when they explained to me the basics of treating their patients and some first aid principles. This exceptional feeling of helping people in need came along with my interests in learning biology and human science subjects in my final year in high school. I decided then to enter medical school to fulfill both my human needs as well as my growing curiosity toward the medical field.
Internal medicine rotations were the most challenging for me, the challenge lied behind the way of critical thinking I had to adopt, and the broad insight that I have developed when it comes to clinical decisions. I like how clinical medicine is tightly related to the basic sciences. The large number of internal medicine patients I have seen was a great opportunity to learn, not only in terms of clinical knowledge but also the adaptation to deal with the pressure which helped me further in my personal life.
I had the chance to be trained by great physicians who sparked the concept of “patient- centered care” in my mind and how important it is to know every single detail about the patient in order to do the best to their well-being. I find this concept more obvious in internal medicine since it mandates a long term relationship and good communications skills with the patients especially for me as I enjoy being around people.
Doing four years of clinical rotations during medical school and internship in different hospitals across the country gave me the ability to communicate effectively with thousands of patients from different backgrounds, educational levels and states of minds that helped reshape my professional personality to best fit every group of patients to provide them with the best health care possible as well as to deliver the educational health messages they need.
I learned that with some patients I have to be very sensitive and extra empathic, while with others a good sense of humor will take care of it. I think doing a residency in the US will expose me to a more diversity of patient cases and cultures that will further sharpen both my medical knowledge and personality. While practicing medicine as a general practitioner I have managed to provide the best care for my patients with the available resources and medical knowledge without any hesitation of consulting my seniors if I ever needed help especially when it comes to the well-being of a fellow human.
I strongly believe in what W. Clement Stone once said: “you are a product of your environment”. Within a short period of time while doing my elective rotations in the US, I was amused by the level of excellence in providing health care, the positive energy within the medical team, and the team’s trust that I have gained that made it easy to blend in this amazing harmony. All of this was under supervision of the most knowledgeable yet humble doctors in a warm and friendly environment that promotes and encourages personal and team development.
In the beginning of my USMLE journey I was tackled with a failure in Step 2 CS in the Spoken English Proficiency part despite that I have put a lot of time, effort and hope to pass it. It was a difficult experience especially to start the journey with, but I believe it made me stronger, more aware of my language limitations, and more willing to improve my English language.
My goal of doing residency in the US is to be a product of a great educational system and to participate in a medical research as a way to pay back to science. I am looking forward to the next three years of my life when I can be the best doctor version of myself.
