Originally from Colombia where I completed medical school, I am now in my third year of my residency program in Internal Medicine here in the USA. I am especially well versed and experienced in the treatment of metabolic diseases and I find a great deal of satisfaction helping sick people, especially the elderly.
Nothing brings me as much joy as seeing patients fully recover because of receiving the appropriate, integral treatment. I am especially concerned with diseases such as diabetes that are reaching epidemic proportions in many parts of the world. I hope to specialize in Endocrinology primarily to continue to learn everything that I can about Diabetes and its consequences for a variety of systems such as heart, kidneys, and nervous systems. Since medical school, I have been extremely fascinated by and heavily engaged with endocrinology, especially thyroid disease.
The part of Colombia that I come from has an extremely high incidence of goiter and both of my own grandmothers suffered from this disease; one of them is a thyroid cancer survivor. I was especially excited when I began my first rotation in the Endocrinology Clinic because I knew that I would have the opportunity to gain a lot of exposure in thyroid disease; I particularly enjoyed the opportunity to perform FNA biopsies.
I am now really excited about the prospect of learning about hormone axis, Hypothalamic-pituitary thyroid, suprarenal, reproductive, etc. The relationship between diabetes and obesity is another area where I seek to develop special expertise. Here in my residency position, I am practicing in a hospital where kidney disease is quite common and the main etiology for it is diabetes. I am saddened to see so many patients having to go through hemodialysis and its all-too-frequent complications. Patients with ESRD always touch my heart in special ways.
My passion for endocrinology also involves fighting kidney disease since preventing diabetes also helps to prevent kidney disease. I treasure each opportunity to help educate patients, helping patients to control their weight, preventing diabetes and metabolic syndromes. In the future, I want to have the opportunity to combine Endocrinology with Public Health – in a constant quest to improve outcomes in the prevention and treatment of diabetes and obesity.
I am most pleased that so many of the medically underserved here in the USA speak my maternal language, since I love helps patients practicing medicine in Spanish. My parents were key role models who always encouraged me to excel and to distinguish myself in service to the community. As soon as I finished medical school in Colombia, I was off to a rural area serving in a small town, after which I practiced as an emergency room physician for both inpatients and outpatients.
I went on to spend a total of 4 years as an ER physician in Colombia and it was here that my special passion for metabolic disease took shape. One of the principal reasons that I came to the USA was to learn as much as I could in the most advanced environment possible, especially in the critical area of endocrinology.
I have a great passion for medicine and extensive clinical experience that I passionately believe would make me an asset to your team if I were to be selected for a fellowship position in Endocrinology. Thank you for considering my application to your distinguished fellowship program.
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