Master Of Arts Degree In Dietetics: Personal Statement

Ashley Huerta Osores is a successful pharmacist, who focused her career on community service. Her journey began in the City of Baltimore, where she attended both undergraduate and professional school. Within her community, she was dedicated to serving the underprivileged. For years, she immersed herself in aiding the neighborhood. In her undergraduate years, she volunteered at the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC); while in pharmacy school, she participated in local health fairs by giving flu shots, and she worked at a local pharmacy. Additionally, Osores was enrolled in a duel degree program, earning the Doctor in Pharmacy (PharmD) and Masters in Public Health (MPH) degree. For her, becoming a pharmacist was not enough. She felt it important to understand policies, regarding healthcare, so that she could help implement change in wide communities.

Volunteering at Texas Health Presbyterian Plano is my way of giving back to the community while developing critical social skills, and gaining important medical field exposure along the way. It’s an opportunity to change a person’s life, including my own. I volunteered at two hospitals last summer and I’m well acquainted with what volunteering entails and would more than love to do it again. Through this hospital volunteer program, I hope to discover my own passions and talents, while also developing skills that I will utilize throughout my entire high school and college experience.

My decision to volunteer at Gloucester-Mathews Free Clinic was primarily motivated by curiosity. There are seven medical professionals in my family, and I wanted to explore the possibility of pursuing a similar career path. The experience provided an opportunity to learn that I do not want to go into medicine, but more importantly, it made me reevaluate the way I think of healthcare.

Brian M. McKenna 4(2012) Medical Education Under Siege: According to the author, medical education is "mired in unhelpful rhetoric, unbecoming hubris, and reliance on an outmoded biomedical paradigm that ignores social, environmental, and psychological influences on health and health care.” (McKenna 2012) This article is a case study of a six-year, muli million project at MSU that dared this realism. The goal was to create community-oriented primary care. Commu­nity participation was a paramount goal in all areas of project life.

As a recent graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and a new Research Technician at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, becoming more familiar with different healthcare settings and helping others in doing so have always been of my interest. From my experience of volunteering as a piano teacher for inner-city children in Baltimore, I have learnt that even a small commitment and emotional support can make a big difference in the daily lives and the happiness of those in need. I have briefly familiarized myself to the hospital environment by shadowing physicians and conducting biomedical research but have yet to translate my volunteering experiences and the lessons learnt from them to the healthcare setting. I am a friendly, optimistic,

Wide reaching, nurses significantly outnumbered physicians as providers of health care often having utmost vast reach remoteness to underserved communities. Having personally lived in one of the underserved communities in my hometown Western Africa before moving to the United States of America and my life calling to be a nurse from a young age with the deep desire to make a difference. I plan to contribute and continue to contribute immensely to the underserved communities by delivering quality health care to remote regions around the world. I do volunteer service at several clinics in the Atlanta area with many well-known Emory physicians that care for homeless and underserved populations, these volunteer experiences provide me with opportunities and fulfillment to develop added headship skill and experience to meet my daily patients, needs.

As a dietitian’s assistant, I organized the nutrition and allergy database for over 1,000 food and beverage items served through the University's food service system. My work helped students with food allergies avoid consuming allergy-containing foods and enabled more students to make healthier choices at the campus eateries. In addition, as a cooperative extension practicum student I. My articles were distributed to communities all across the state of Georgia. my WIC clients are positively impacted by my work in ways such as: decreasing rates of overweight and obese children and increasing breastfeeding rates. My practice and experience combined with a responsible and self-reliant nature will allow me to contribute to the dietetic profession to further build the development, expansion and enhancement of community organizations and initiatives. Furthermore, I will be able to contribute by utilizing my research, volunteer and professional dietetic background to effectively communicate in a way that integrates dietetic concepts from all areas of

Through these volunteering efforts alongside medically underserved individuals I gained experience as well as a better sense of cultural competence and compassion that has gradually helped me learn the capacity to understand other people’s experiences and sufferings in a way I never had before. Furthermore, by specifically working in family and free health clinics, I have had the opportunity to gain perspective to the present health disparities of minorities and socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals. I have witnessed how a lack of insurance, monetary income, or health education can affect one’s decision to attain primary health care. Seeing their medically related hardships increase has only challenged me to contribute my unwavering efforts to pursue the Biomedical Sciences MS degree and become a compassionate, culturally competent, and respectful type of physician who thinks logically and rationally when striving to help people in their greatest time of need, instead of focusing on their

I have been given many opportunities to help others and make an impact in Johnson City through organizations like the Family Medicine Interest Group at ETSU, serving as the coordinator for student involvement in free clinics. I have also been able to make an impact through medicine in Cleveland, TN by way of the Good Samaritan Clinic. This is a free clinic in downtown Cleveland that I have been volunteering at for the past seven years. I have also been directly involved in the start-up of the Just Care clinic in Mountain City, TN, a medical student ran free clinic in rural Appalachia. I was also been able to spend time in rural Guatemala with a medical team from my undergraduate university helping diagnose, treat, and care for patients whom receive little to no regular healthcare. From my own first hand experiences in both Guatemala and my time spent in the Just Care and Good Samaritan Clinics, I have seen the impact that an inadequate health care system can have on a population. I hope to use my medical and public health training in areas that do not have adequate access to health

The 2014 final ruling by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding therapeutic diet order writing privileges for qualified registered dietitians (RDs) has the possibility of improving both efficacy and efficiency of patient/resident care. It should be considered a victory for the profession as registered dietitians are receiving validation of inclusion as medical staff and fulfilling an equally important role as part of the medical care team. (Schaeffer, 2014). “It allows for nutrition experts who are trained to investigate and establish causal relationships between nutrients/diet and disease to participate in the dissemination of that firsthand information to patients” (Schaeffer, 2014). The step should be additionally

Thank you Professor Waynant again for your willingness to write my recommendation for the Dietetics Program. Below I have left some of the highlights from my resume and I have attached the reference form. IT IS DUE JANUARY 31ST! I really appreciate you taking your time to speak with me and get to know my other efforts aside from in your class. What class(es) are you teaching this semester?

My volunteer work involved serving as a liaison between the surgery department and the families of patients. I saw my work, however, as much more—as a means of creating a comfortable environment to ease the anxieties and frustrations of people whose family members were seriously ill. Serving in Chula Vista, my bilingual skills came in handy, as well as my compassion to help those in need.

In general, for my long-term goal is to help people and make them aware of how much nutrition and physical activity can make a big change in their life. My first goal is applying for the Internship within 2 years of graduating. After I complete my internship I will prepare for the exam by studying all my nutrition notes and books from school as well as all material from my internship. I will apply and take the national registered dietitian exam in order to be a practicing Registered Dietitian.

While preparing for my career, While searching for opportunities I took initiative and worked with professionals, children, and peers. Specific experiences that are beneficial are working with OSU Extension Services, URAP, and with Salem Health. While volunteering at OSU Extension Services I learned a lot about nutrition outreach. I helped at the local food bank, assisted in nutrition classes for both adults and children, and helped at an elementary school. The opportunity to work for Extension as the instructor for the Spanish nutrition class arised, I am learning a lot and it has helped my public speaking skills and confidence. I learned about what it feels like to be a professional and have those responsibilities. In addition, working as the URAP Scholar is giving me research experience related to nutrition. I’m getting to be part of a team and collaborate with OSU Dietetic Interns in their research. Working as a nutrition services associate at Salem Health is also a wonderful opportunity that allows me to be around the dietetic field. There, I learn about diets while working with also having patient interactions. Throughout my experiences I gained teamwork experience, problem solving skills, and improved my time

At Kaplan University, I am currently enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Nutrition Science due to my passion for nutrition and health. My goal is to pursue a career as a Nutritionist and a Food Safety Specialist. When I first enrolled into Kaplan University, I was sure that my passion for nutrition and making a difference in people’s lives was exactly what I envisioned for my future, but I had no idea how many paths there were in the nutrition field. After doing further research on my expected degree field through resources provided by my professor, I discovered the specific path that I would be passionate to take. A career in Food Safety is what I choose as my future profession.