Interview Tips - How to Answer "Why Medicine?"

what's going on guys my name is Kenji and welcome back to my channel if it's the first time you're watching one my videos I'm a second year medical shoes so their kids College London and today I have a very special penny for you guys I get a lot of questions asking why I decided to do medicine maybe you're applied to medicine or maybe it was curious so why I did is I got a bunch of my friends who are all medics to answer the question about why they decided to pursue the career in medicine so I'm gonna let them talk first and let them give their reasons as to why they chose to do medicine and then right at the end I'll come in and give my reasoning so hope you find this video helpful and I hope you add somebody to your life if you can please just take two seconds to give this video a thumbs up and make sure you subscribe it really helps the channel grow it really helps these videos reach more people so yeah let's get the video started hi guys my name is J I'm a secondary Medicare cakes and this is the reason why I chose medicine and so I've got quite personal reason something I definitely encourage if you can just because you know if you've got sort of short anecdotes and that you can mention your personal statement admissions you're just gonna remember you're quite quite well when you when they're comparing it to other people so my grandmother she's been quite hell pretty much her whole life and I've lived with that and so I've seen sort of you know how the tissue nurses and the doctors come over actually really really nicely and she goes hospital visits herself I see now again you know doctors have been really very caring towards her I always put her knees first basically she's paralyzed from the neck down and so the notion conference do a lot of things that we can do those might see how doctors do you know a lot of medicines a lot of things for her and to basically put a smile on her face because as I say yes that's something that you know having seen the kindness and compassion that they showing us and we all want to have me make myself that's the first reason and the other reason is again it's a sort of a personal experience but my GP they've looked after myself or my family perhaps my whole life does she seem eager often like the young boy I was to myself now again being able to have that continue to care and I've seen the same people with a long period time seeing them develop it's really really nice to particularly remember when night yvonne.stowe young and he explained the really difficult content to be really really clearly and those things sort of stayed with you pretty much in your life and when you come across a really really good doctors as I say you to tend to the Romanum so they're sort of you know and that sort of combined with the fact that I've rethought my science the fact that is quite obviously like a stable career hi so my name is Nasir I'm a second year medical student here at Kings there are a lot of reasons that I decided to study medicine but one of those reasons was that I was always going to be continuously challenged and I feel like whether that's in my lectures when I'm learning about different content or different theory that I'm learning about and especially when dealing with patients as well learning to talk and communicate with patients reach difficult topics and constantly have to think on my feet and do all kinds of different skills at the same time I feel like that aspect of medicine of continuously pushing me towards my limits is something that I really enjoy and something that makes me want to perceive medicine and continue learning more and more as I become a doctor so another reason that I decided to choose to study medicine was more about the experiences that I had while I was in high school and while I was my university I always sort of knew that I want to study medicine but I didn't know what that really meant until I went into the hospital until I went into research labs and I was able to shadow people working in the profession and seeing how they dealt with their patients seeing how much impact their work was having on a patient's lives both on a day-to-day basis and long-term in terms of things like research that is kind of what motivated me as well and drove me towards pursuing a medical career you know a lot of people say I want to do medicine to someone to help people an event of the day it does boil down to that and you do have a little team to help people book in an acute setting you know right there and then and also long-term and over time so a bunch of things combined together putting those two things is why it's like medicine I've gotten into the graduate entry medicine program at Birmingham we started in September so the reason why I went to the start medicine is because I started going down a research route and when I started going down that route I realized that actually what I'm really passionate about isn't just the science but it's also being able to communicate that science with patients and to be able to apply that in a clinical setting so that was my reason for it - you stopped medicine yeah my name is Queen I'm a second year medical student at Kings so for me I always I was really fascinated with the human body from an early age I was always fascinated and I wanted a kind of course I wanted to study more that let me learn about it but not seen enough because when I found that side of science it didn't really appeal to me too much I wanted to be hands-on and I wanted to be helping I was actually feel like I was making a difference right there and then so yeah I guess I kind of got into it for that reason and then when I learned more about what the course actually entails so I went to that open days and then I saw more about well work experience work since I like to work experience and that was when I realized yet this is the degree the course for me - is I see hey guys my name is Sean I'm a second year medical student at the university of central lancashire and i am here to talk a little bit about why I wanted to study medicine so coming from my background my family started a foundation and children's foundation that used to helps kids in our country from unfortunate backgrounds and kids who had disabilities severe disabilities and they didn't have access to public health care that could help them the most the most unfortunate thing was that majority of these cases had to be taken to the neighboring country South Africa to use their health care system because they weren't fast enough to take on those type of those type of cases and I think this is where I sort of had a lightbulb moment and thought to myself as well as my parents why don't we have these type of resources back here at home why don't we have doctors who can do this so you came down to the issue of Education so you know our country is a developing country and everybody's busy trying to pitch in everybody's trying to do that bit I thought the thing that really kicked the most with me was medicine so fast-forward a few years into the future I get a scholarship to come to UK given by my government which I'm very grateful for and I get into the University of Birmingham where McKenzie then it's actually in the during that degree my vitamin degree why I wanted to study medicine got tested because I started to go through strenuous periods I started to you know have very low moods because I would just feel the immense pressure of what was demanded of me to be - up high into to get into medicine especially with the international cold and I really at one point I really I really contemplated not going into medicine anymore but the experience that really changed my mind was when I was volunteering at the hospice and there was this one lady who I had had a very lovely conversation with and you know her husband comes in and we are always chatting and you know I would regularly keep meeting them on the evenings that I was coming in because that's when the husband would come in and that's when we'd have that chat and I was volunteering as a trolley as a trolley volunteer so I would be moving food in taking dirty dishes away and making sure the patients were comfortable and just having a chat with them I came one day to talk in for my shift and I see her doors closed and I automatically knew straight away that she had passed away and I think it was a very tough thing it was a tough pill to swallow I sort of froze when I was moving the food up and about but I couldn't believe that she was actually gone it's all just forgot that I was actually in a hospice and I forgot that some patients would be receiving palliative care and the thing that really got to me wasn't you know I wish I had the skills to solve the issues that she had it wasn't anything deep like that I think the thing that really got to me was when the husband stepped out of the room after seeing his wife and he came to me and said thank you for making the last few days of her life the most pleasant you were a very nice person to talk to and I think she really did appreciate that and I could see that genuine gratitude in his eyes you know behind the tears and at the same time it's feeling bad I felt a very great sense of satisfaction because I was happy that even though I didn't have much to give I gave her everything I gave her what I could and I spoke to and I I was there for as a as a human being and I think that's what really sparked my flame for medicine was because I realized that above the medication and above all the technology and above all the you know the fancy innovations were going to come up with the one thing that patients really appreciate from us is having somebody to hold their hand through that process and to help them get to a better place and Here I am so that's that's my wife so I decided to pursue a career in medicine when I was around 14 years old I was born and bred in Kenya and every so often my school and now it goes to local slums and I think was called Cabarrus Tom's as we go to local slums and with volunteers help build the infrastructure would play for all the local kids and would also hold the base being able to see what life was like for less fortunate people really highlighted the harsh reality of the world we live in a world where sometimes and things like access to health care and education can be taken for granted and having lived in England in Japan as well I was able to see in the contrast between these different worlds and I kind of realized around that points what becoming a doctor can do not only for me not only for my family but the rest of the world as well so my ultimate goal is to train as a doctor in the UK I get qualified in the UK and change lives and save lives of the people within the UK under the NHS and also - one day - about the people that left in Kenya and hopefully change their lives as well so that's a reason I decided to do medicine right so that's pretty much it guys thank you so much for watching I hope this has given you more of an idea about as to why medical students decided to pursue a career in medicine at least inspired you as well to do medicine and has given you some value to your life so if you enjoyed the video please make sure to give it a thumbs up make sure you're subscribed as well follow me on all my social media as well and it also be really interested to hear why you decided to be medicine what I really love about you guys is that in the comments you always help each other out your is like you talk to each other and discuss certain things so I'm sure everyone would like to hear why you want to do medicine and maybe you can all share ideas and inspire each other as well so let me know the comment down below why you want to do medicine I wanna be read in the comments and I'd be really interested to find out so thank you so much for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one

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Length: 11min 5sec (665 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 14 2019