Motivation for Medicine

Why medicine? (Situation=console)

1. Doctors have ability to console patients and ease trauma

2. Observed this when mum had operation for breast cancer

3. Reflected on significance of compassion in doctor

4. Developed compassion volunteering at care home

Why medicine? (Situation=mentally stimulating)

1. Problem solving in medicine

   • Diagnosing

   • Suggesting treatment plans

   • Preventing illness

2. Accident and emergency unit in work experience

3. Significance of using problem solving skills in high pressure situations

4. Lifeguarding employed these skills

Give 3 features of medicine

• Diagnose, manage and treat patients

• Leadership and clinical reasoning

• Combines science and patient contact

Give 3 features of nursing

• Ongoing care, monitoring and emotional support

• Advocacy and empathy

• Focuses on care and support

Give 3 features of biomed

• Investigating disease mechanisms

• Analytical, lab-based work

• Focuses on understanding illness