Application As Physician Assistant - Personal Statement Example

Personal ment: Application as Physical Assistant al Affiliation Personal ment: Application as Physician Assistant I am one of those who affirm that experiences in life are opportunities for learning. From the challenges and difficulties that I have sustained, I learned to be resilient and hopeful that, through hard work, determination, and commitment to help others, I could prove that there is optimism despite adversities. At a very young age of 14, my mother who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, in conjunction with being a drug addict, kicked me out of our home.

I had no recourse but to find employment to support myself and to take care of my younger sister; who, apparently, also suffers from psychiatric problems. The heavy burden vested in me did not detract me from continuing my studies. When I started college at the age of 16, I had no financial, physical, or emotional support; and as such, did poorly academically, especially when I started working full time on a graveyard shift. For five years, I worked as an Emergency Medical Technician for 72 hours a week, or more, whenever possible; and did my best at school.

These challenges, and the psychiatric disorders of both, my mother and sister, provided the impetus for my decision to pursue a Physician Assistant (PA) Program. I worked as a massage therapist and I always wanted to be a doctor. Thus, I have affirmed that my previous health care experiences and the commitment to undertake massage-based volunteering with autism patients, veterans and chronically depressed patients in my Santa Ana Community through the California Fellowship of Neuromuscular Therapists (CFNT) organization, make me qualified to pursue the PA Program.

I want to be a PA for professional growth in the medical field and to enable me to support my family and my community who needs health care workers who understand the "options" and "limitations" in their lives and can work with them to face an under-education in health resistance to care. I excelled in massage therapy school, with a 97% rating. I acknowledge that PA school is more difficult; yet, I strongly believe I would excel due to the time management skills that have been developed; and a perspective that recognizes placing education, as the priority.

I affirm my conviction that I could be an instrumental contributor to the well-being of people through undertaking the responsibilities of a physician assistant. The challenges and difficulties that I have encountered in life were seen as little blessings in disguise to pursue a productive and rewarding profession.