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    Personal Statement Crawfurd Medical

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    The document discusses the reasons why the author is interested in job shadowing at Crawfurd Medical. The author wants to experience first-hand how doctors assess and treat patients to determine if medicine is the right career. The author hopes to learn how doctors use soft skills and communication to make patients comfortable, convey medical information clearly, and find the right balance of optimism and realism. The author also wants to learn how doctors use empathy to build trust with patients of all ages.

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    Personal Statement Crawfurd Medical

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    The document discusses the reasons why the author is interested in job shadowing at Crawfurd Medical. The author wants to experience first-hand how doctors assess and treat patients to determine if medicine is the right career. The author hopes to learn how doctors use soft skills and communication to make patients comfortable, convey medical information clearly, and find the right balance of optimism and realism. The author also wants to learn how doctors use empathy to build trust with patients of all ages.

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    The document discusses the reasons why the author is interested in job shadowing at Crawfurd Medical. The author wants to experience first-hand how doctors assess and treat patients to determine if medicine is the right career. The author hopes to learn how doctors use soft skills and communication to make patients comfortable, convey medical information clearly, and find the right balance of optimism and realism. The author also wants to learn how doctors use empathy to build trust with patients of all ages.

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    Personal Statement Crawfurd Medical

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    Charlotte Yeo
    The document discusses the reasons why the author is interested in job shadowing at Crawfurd Medical. The author wants to experience first-hand how doctors assess and treat patients to determine if medicine is the right career. The author hopes to learn how doctors use soft skills and communication to make patients comfortable, convey medical information clearly, and find the right balance of optimism and realism. The author also wants to learn how doctors use empathy to build trust with patients of all ages.

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    Why am I interested in job shadowing at Crawfurd Medical?

    As an aspiring medical student, I understand that a good science student may not be a

    good doctor so I would like to find out if medicine is the vocation I would like to be in.

    Interacting with people and the science of it interests me. A doctor may not always be

    able to cure every illness. However, a doctor can give dignity to a human’s life. The

    internship will be an opportunity to observe the doctor-patient interaction within the

    hospital setting and the grit and fortitude required.

    Being the tennis captain of my school team and also a member of the sports committee

    has taught me that many a time, it is more important to listen than to blindly work

    towards a set target. It is also always important to reevaluate our goals and change

    course if the need arises. The ability to listen and extract important information from

    patients is similarly vital in the course of treatment. I would like to experience first-hand

    at Crawfurd Medical how doctors assess, and eventually begin a course of treatment.

    I recently interned at Dermatology Practice under Dr Lynn Teo. I saw first-hand clinical

    procedures on patients however I understand that this is a private setting and will not be

    catered to those who are less privileged. I would like to experience job shadowing in a

    government hospital as I will be able to see voluminous number of patients of different

    backgrounds and medical conditions and learn how doctors interact with them.
    What do you hope to learn from a job shadowing attachment with Crawfurd Medical?
    During the job shadowing programme, I hope to learn more about how a doctor uses

    soft skills to make the patient feel at ease during consultation and treatment.

    Communication is vital as a doctor ought to convey a medical condition or treatment in

    layman’s language to give an in-depth understanding to the patient. Different patients

    have different backgrounds so it is important for easy comprehension of complex

    diseases. Furthermore, communication is important in the balance between optimism

    and realism when conveying a prognosis. If one gets the balance wrong, one could

    either condemn the patient to live in hopeless despair for their remaining time or give

    false hope and be accused of incompetence when the patient realises they may die.

    Both situations are not ideal so I would like to learn more about the communication in

    doctor-patient interaction.

    How doctors and nurses use their empathy to interact with adults and young children is

    something I am interested in. Empathy is important in building trust within the

    doctor-patient relationship and allowing the patient to be more willing to share about

    their struggles which could help improve the quality of patient care. Learning this skill is

    vital both in the medical fraternity and in day to day life so I would like to learn more

    about it. Furthermore, children are not smaller versions of adults. Not only do they have

    different physiology but they also have different emotional needs. Interacting with them

    requires picking up on slight emotional cues and they are not the easiest to handle

    when they go out of control. I would like to learn more about how doctor’s put

    themselves in their patients’ shoes so that they are able to carry out their treatment.

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