Motivation or desire to become a Physician Assistant

Student’s Name Course Name Instructor’s Name Class Name Date Assignment is due Motivation or desire to become a Physician Assistant My desire to become a Physical Assistant (PA) was catalyzed by my experience of undergoing a right shoulder operation. This experience made me angry since I had broken a part of my body. I succumbed to the shoulder injury during my time as a footballer in High School. As an injured player, I had no other option other than becoming a motivator, a school football coach, and a spiritual counselor. The unrelenting desire to become a PA increased day after day as I recovered. This period of persevering, training, physical therapy, and medical solutions that brought pain and anguish made my resolution to become a PA stronger. I am convinced that the experience and the character I acquired during my school life are critical to my choice to study and work as a PA. I have learnt a lot about medicine through my personal experience as a footballer who has had perennial injuries. At one time I broke my right shoulder and I had to go through an operation. I was exposed to the theatre, physical therapy that was extensive and painful, cortisone injections, X-Rays, and MRI’s. I overcame fears that engulf every patient before any operation. This gave me a worthwhile experience and insights into the field of medicine. I was taught how to care for patients and practice good medicine by my doctor, Kenneth Leclerc. Personal caring, compassion, and medical excellence were what I learnt from him. That is the kind of medicine I want to practice. This very character was also evident in the Physical and Occupational therapist at the Brooke Army Medical Center – At the Center for the Intrepid (CFI) whom I shadowed for sometime as he rehabilitated wounded warriors who had sustained amputation, burns, or loss of functional limb. I observed hi...