Drugs Personal Statements Samples For Students

I have always wanted to achieve my dream career ever since I was in primary school. This has, however; not been an easy task due to financial constraints among other hardships I have faced along the way. I come from a poor family. My parents are high school graduates and their income has not been sufficient to cater for my education as well as take care of our family. During my undergraduate studies, I, therefore, had to secure a part time job in order to cover part of my school fees. I am grateful for the experiences I have been through ...

Imagine a drug so powerful it can make you calm down from your most pressing panic attack. What’s more, it can also get you high, or enhance the high you already have. Not only that, you can get it from your doctor and pick it up at your local pharmacy. Alprazolam, otherwise known as Xanax, is a type of benzodiazepine prescribed to many people throughout the world. Released in 1981, it is meant to deal with panic attacks and anxiety disorders, calming the patient through releasing itself as a sedative and muscle relaxant. However, the addictive nature of this drug has ...

I have for a long time been interested in drugs and their interactions. As a child, I remember my younger brother being allergic to crustaceans. This meant that I would always go to the drugstore to purchase anti-allergy drugs which would bring him relief. His allergy resulted in severe physical symptoms like: swollen face; difficult breathing due to reactions in his respiratory tract; and rashes all over his body. It always amazed me and my brother how the medicine seemed to work like magic and this aroused my curiosity about how it worked. This inspired me to take Biology at the ...

Admission Essay

As Phillip Pullman once mentioned, “If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.” This quotation reflects my way to my dream in full. Since my early years I have known that I want to pursue a career that would be related to medicine. I was excited about heroes who help people get through their diseases and ease their pain.
Unfortunately, in my country hardly everyone could expect proper medical treatment. I grew up ...

My name is Hoyi Tsui and I was born in 1991 in Hong Kong, China. While I was born in Hong Kong, I immigrated with my family to the United States when I was seven years old and have since lived in Salisbury, Maryland, which I consider my home. I always had a passion for biology and medicine and was thrilled to learn that a career in pharmacy was within my grasp after searching through a local community college catalog in 20011. Not long after this discovery, I found great success as a student in the college’s “Pharmacy ...

Prior to applying to become a doctoral student in pharmacy, I began to do some extra reading on the subject to determine the types of careers and models of practice that are available, and how they fit with my own goals and experience. I have done volunteer work in a hospital setting and found that I very much enjoyed working as part of a team in a community or general hospital. I think I would like to be employed such a setting, following a patient-centered type of pharmaceutical practice and assisting patients with finding the most effective medications for their conditions. I have a real passion ...

My interest in Urban Studies started through a combination of experiences as a child and working adult. I grew up in South Korea in a Christian family and followed commandments from the Bible that were mentioned throughout my childhood. However, in the 11th grade my English teacher, Ms. Case, had Kohlberg’s Six Stages of Moral Reasoning posted on the board and I read it every class session. It gave me a different non-religious prospective regarding right and wrong behavior. At that time, I was at Stage Four: “Maintaining the Social Order”; but knew that I wanted to move to Level 3, Stage ...

Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner is a challenge to deeply held beliefs regarding the autonomous nature of humans. Skinner, being one of the founding fathers of the behavioral movement reduces most human activity to a function of social living. Behaviorism has a distinct advantage over other psychological schools insofar as it’s hypotheses can be tested using the scientific method, and observation of objective behavior over subjective thoughts. While primary using rats as his experimental models, Skinner extrapolated his findings to human behavior to create a theory that promoted social conditioning on mass scale in order to create social control.
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Personal Statement

Personal Statement
During my internship at the psychiatry residency program, I met a patient during my rotations that attracted my attention. I remember vividly the patient was staying in room 18 but was later transferred to room 25. The patient, old man probably in his seventies, was suffering from insomnia, psychotic disorder and severe depression. The patient was prescribed antidepressants among other drugs aimed at controlling the symptoms and talk therapy. I could tell the patient was Russian due to his heavy Russian accent. Over time, I noticed that despite the improving condition of the patient, he remained depressed ...

Howard University

My name is Abdulfattah Yahya M Alhazmi. I am applying for your Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences because I am interested in specializing in Pharmacokinetics. I am impressed with the vision of your Department especially the recognition that as clinical therapeutic problems change, new research efforts need to be creative and flexible in order to successfully meet these new challenges. In fact, I have written a systematic review titled "Inappropriate use of proton pump inhibitors" in order to highlight my abilities in performing high quality research to improve clinical therapy. I agree with your department’s statement that innovation and ...