The Reasons Why I Choose Interventional Cardiology: Personal Statement

Personal Statement About Joining Interventional Cardiology

The path of decisions that I made for the last 10 to 15 years of my life made me reach to this point of writing my personal statement for interventional cardiology. The continuous challenge of puzzling medical conditions strives in cardiology science, as everything make sense when connected in right manner. With interventional cardiology the ultimate challenge to the brain is linked to fine skills techniques. This is what amazes me about cardiology in general and interventional cardiology in particular.

During my internal medicine residency I did cardiology rotations that made feel special as I was able to interpret the clinical picture with ECG and echocardiography data correctly and faster than my colleagues. My consultant during his rounds on patients trusted my clinical judgment, despite being with more senior doctors my assessment was valued and it was correct in good number of times. The excitement of treating acute cardiac emergency and seeing the patient get better was rewarding and made me handle the stress of long on call hours and sleepless nights. However one part of this chain of care was missing as my hospital ( Salmaniya Medical Complex in Bahrain) was non interventional one. By moving to fellowship program at King Faisal Hospital and Research center ( Riyadh KSA) I was exposed for the first time to interventional cardiology experience. By first it was difficult for me to read the images and views. However, by time the skills of focusing your eyes on screen watching the monitor and patient blood pressure, using ur hand to manipulate the catheters and ur feet to press on floor control paddles was the most ultimate challenge and excitement. I feel by joining interventional cardiology I am combining the best of my brain talent with best of my body skills.

Nonetheless, joining this program is going to be rewarding on self level and on my community level, as right now my hospital ( Salmaniya Medical Complex) that I am going to practice my future cardiology is moving toward introducing the full cardiac services including interventional cardiology, cardiac surgery and pediatrics cardiology. It’s my mission right now to be able to participate in this huge project that will be in the benefit of my population. By going into the field of interventional cardiology I’ll be an active member in such project.

We all know that being in interventional cardiology means your sleepless nights won’t be over and the physical demands will even be more, will I would be able to succeed in doing this.?.

Everyone will have such thoughts specially for a female to join such subspecialty..

The right answer to this question is my self. I made it through medical school and graduated with level A. I made it through internal medicine and finished all my exams and joined the most difficult specialty cardiology and I am almost done with my fellowship and I gained the title of the best fellow with excellency. These are not the only things what will make me pull through interventional cardiology fellowship, but the wellingness to learn and actually enjoying it throughout,being an active team player, the ability to stand and move on during times of difficulties, standing calm during stressful sick patients time and ability to take good decisions and guide the caring team are my main assets.

I tend to buffer all of this work load with my hobbies as I ensure to have this free time everyone and then. I enjoy reading and watching movies in big cinema theaters. But my best hobby is to travel and see different places and people, it gives the feeling of being small in a big world. I have been to Lisbon, Athens,Seville, Paris, Malaysia, states of America.

I am confident that my decision in joining interventional cardiology is the next right step and I am ready to do it and master it.