Personal Statement
I am a dentist committed to the health and happiness of the people that I serve. When I was a teenager, I got interested in health and served people since the biology and health courses in school. I learn from that moment the complexity of the human body and the required knowledge and effort to learn the body parts, how to treat them and how to involve with the human being and make him feel comfortable. Secondary school was the determinant moment to define that the health sciences will be my vocation.
My vocation for health sciences was not aligned with my degrees in schools. I was not the best student in my class, but that did not stop me to participate in any activity related to public health and to support people. Health voluntary activities were part of my strategy to participate in the most important passion of my life, help people's health. My first experience was in 2016 in the Occupational Health wards in Lewisham Hospital. That experience convinces me that serving patients was my vocation.
Previous to that experience I have made other voluntary activities in school, Downham Tamil Association and a supplementary school for Tamil children in Sri Lanka in different subjects as health, music, and education.
I balanced my ordinary results in University with a bachelor science in biology from London South Bank University with an extraordinary experience of volunteer work in the health sector. With the previous experience, I have the aim to enroll to the Dental Hygiene and Therapy Course .
I consider the dental hygiene and therapy course will empower my career allowing me to get a well-paid job and to continue supporting the community in an important area of health. The dental hygiene affects the human being since the moment the children has teeth until the death of the human being. With the course, I have the aim to get the required tools to enhance my career and to get the opportunity for a job opportunity in any hospital, medical institution or foundation in the country or worldwide.
According to the course structure, it has multidisciplinary modules that offer me and to my future colleague's complimentary skills in dental hygiene and therapy. I consider I will take advantage of the most advanced dental hygiene techniques available to apply them to my future patients.
The advantage of the course is that it contains self-direct learners, life-long learning and community work. Self-direct learning is convenient to me because each student can advance at its pace. The life-long learning is the ability to learn always; that means I will have the ability to improve my knowledge in benefit of my patients. Community work is when I have a competitive advantage over other students, and I have the experience to share with teachers and students giving added value to the course.
The demand for medical services, especially in dental services will increase in the following years, due to two important forces: the population growth and the improvement in the universal condition of the health services due to geographical expansion and unitary costs.
My condition of a critical thinker is aligned to the aims of the dental hygiene and therapy course. The course requires the following of certain procedures and steps that follow the good practice of medicine, but with the ability to think and question what is good and what is wrong in a procedure or a patient condition. The critical thinker requires combining knowledge and intelligence to achieve an effective solution. Thanks to my previous years of volunteering and supporting people with limited resources, I have achieved effective solutions to different situations in the past applying the critical thinking process, that is, the combination of the current knowledge I have in health and dental hygiene with my experience helping patients.
The critical thinker must be capable, humble, cautious, and tenacious and demanding; those attributes are required for the dental hygiene, and therapy course and I consider I meet all those conditions. I am a capable person because the limitations of my grades in secondary school and the university did not limit my main goal to serve people. I always said to myself I don't need a grade or a diploma to serve people. I only need my strength and conviction to help people; the knowledge supports the work, but it is not the main requirement for the service. I am a humble person, because although I have a bachelor degree and several courses I have no problem to work for free for a foundation or an institution to help people developing any activity from the lowest level of the organizational hierarchy until my current position of Senior Administrator of a General Practice. The position, titles or social condition are only titles, but they don't define the person quality. I am a cautious person; each step I did in my life was based on my passion and my available resources to do it. I always did the activities in volunteering that my qualifications and knowledge allowed me avoiding putting in risk the people's health. The decision to make the Dental Hygiene and Therapy course is part of my cautious condition, to learn specialized skills in the dental discipline to apply them in the field with confidence. I am a demanding person with me and with the others. First I am a demanding person with me wanting to be better every day, to know more every day and to help more people every day. My demanding condition with myself is translated to the others because I want the team, organization, school or university improves every day and I want others to have the same passion I have to advance and progress.
The plan after the culmination of the course is to offer dental services in a hospital or medical institution in the short term and in the long term to be a leader of a dental services institution with the financial support of the community and crowdfunding. I believe the entrepreneurial sector must support the dental health and I want to articulate that support tightening ties between the entrepreneurial sector and medicine. I want to be an articulating element in that support taking the approach of my contacts network in the health services sector, academy, and industry.
Cited Works
The Canadian Dental Hygienist Association. Dental Hygiene Programs. 2015. Web. 03 January 2017.
