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Essay / Overcoming Challenges: My Journey to Medical School
As I moved through different departments during my clinical years, I felt an immense attraction to family medicine for the variety that In terms of difficult cases ranging from infants to the elderly, it offers research opportunities and links created with patients and their families. This sparked not only a desire to pursue family medicine, where I could build long-term relationships with my patients, but also an interest in health policy. Family medicine offers the opportunity to focus on comprehensive care for patients of all age groups and also provide quality mental and behavioral health care in primary care settings. During my clinical years, I participated in the Pulse Polio Immunization campaign established by the Government of India to eliminate polio by vaccinating all children under five years of age against polio.