The AAS Personal Statement
The AAS Personal Statement
The AAS Personal Statement
I want to be a person who could give advantages for many people, especially the
people in my community. As a doctor, I treat my patients individually, often with the
same health problems. For these kinds of condition we need to see it as a public
health problem, and a different approach should be initiated. I think it is more
effective to find the base of these problems so that we can get the best solution
which able to reach more people. It is why I choose to study public health.
I found the UNSW Master of Infectious Disease Intelligence is the most suitable
program for me. This is one of a few world class universities with public health
program that focusing on infectious disease. In addition, UNSW is one of the high
reputed universities in the world. By 2016, its ranked 49 th in the QS World Raking
and 78th in Times Higher Education World University Ranking.
This study will equip me as a doctor with knowledge and skills to treat my patients
comprehensively, not only the curative but also in the preventive effort. Moreover,
this approach will reach more people because it could be applied in range of setting,
including communities, and risk group. I believe, the infectious diseases control and
prevention could decrease the number of mortality and morbidity caused by
infectious disease in the community.
A few years ago I joined the Indonesia International Workcamp (IIWC) organization
and had a chance to become the campleader. This is a volunteering organization
which facilitates participant across the world to work together and doing some
project related to health, social or environment issues in Indonesia. At that time, my
friends and I was working with medical students from KEIO University, Japan in
bilateral group workcamp. Our goal is to solve the health problems of street children
in my town.
First, we did a survey to look for the children main health problem. Apparently, skin
infection is the disease oftentimes infecting the children. Our analysis reveals that
source of the problem is the lack of hygiene. So, for the rest time of our project, we
tried our best to promote the importance of self-hygiene to the children. We tried
many kind of method to interest the children, mostly, we create a educational game
to deliver the messages. This method is quite effective, it is shown by the increase
number of children join our project and their enthusiasm to practice self-hygiene.
From these experiences, there are so many things Ive learnt. Health problem isnt
just a disease to be cured; it is linked to many factors, such as: social, level of
economy, and education. We need to understand the problems comprehensively so
we can solve it to the root, prevent it from getting worse and reduce the fatality. As
a campleader, I also learn skills to make coordination between the camp members,
stakeholder and the streetchildren. I learn how to manage every available source
and handle every obstacle to run our project.
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