When I attend college, I would love to major in English while attending classes for my prerequisites for medical school. This is my dream because throughout my life I have vivid memories of the hospital and many life changing, as well as dreadful doctors. These memories may not seem relevant to anyone but myself because they are minor details, but these minor details are a significant reason for my desire to be apart of the health care system. In college, I hope to study all of the different aspects of being a physician’s assistant or a doctor who performs surgery, because those are the two specific fields I am interested in. No matter what road in health care I may end up taking, I would like to specialize in pediatrics. I want to specialize in pediatrics because I fell in love working with mostly children when I was an intern at the Children's Hospital this past spring. Being apart of the pre-collegiate health careers program is helping me explore different jobs in the field as well as learning how to be a rigorous and dedicated student. The five-week program is far more intense than my school coursework, so being apart of the program takes a tremendous amount of commitment. I am thankful for being in pre-collegiate because I am learning a significant amount of new study skills as well as reinforcing my knowledge in math and communication skills. Since my English class counts as a college credit, being in pre-collegiate is also helping me be a step closer to my dream of going to college and one day become a medical or physicians assistant student.
Kristina, it is sometimes those personal childhood memories that shape the course of someone's career path. Although I have never seriously considered being a librarian for many of the years between my being a child going to the library on Saturdays and my actually becoming a librarian , I am a librarian today because of some of those very early experiences that I had at my library. I worked in a library in junior high and high school, and then got a "real" job at a library. I've been working in libraries pretty much ever since, and it was only recently (2007) that got my master's degree in library and information science and became a librarian. Your memories and experiences as an intern at Children's are invaluable, and I can understand your dreams of working in the medical field. Now, as for your wish to major in English, too-- there is a program at the University of Colorado called the BA/BS-MD program that will allow you to major in both English and Pre-Med. Check it out here: http://ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/CLAS/BachelorsPrograms/ProgramsDegrees/BABSMD/Pages/home.aspx
ReplyDeleteBest wishes to you!
Tina M. Moser, MLIS
Access Services Librarian
Health Sciences Library
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus