Welcome to Fausty’s MeD Life! Shall we begin?
Who am I?
My name is Faustina & I am a proud Ghanaian. I completed my undergraduate degree in Kinesiology with a minor in Psychology. I am currently pursuing a career in medicine & have worked as a medical scribe and a caregiver in the past few years. I like a healthy mix of spontaneity and order in my life so when I’m not working you can catch me traveling, planning extensively for the foreseeable future, or (unhealthily) binging a series I recently discovered on Netflix.
I’d like to provide y’all with a more extensive look into my academic background and future plans that I’m hoping will later manifest into my career goals:
During my sophomore year of undergrad I decided to break from my Biochemistry major and chose a more non-traditional pre-med major. Although I wasn’t the only individual in my major on the pre-med track, I soon realized that Kinesiology in general was better suited for students who were pursuing careers as physical therapists. So why did I stick with it? My primary reason for switching majors was because I had realized the summer leading into my sophomore year that I did not know much about the human body. I had never taken a basic anatomy and physiology course and seeing that I’m pursuing a medical education, I wanted something that would give me even the slightest introduction to the body. Up until then, my only context of the human body was in the form of basic Biology and Chemistry, but I desired to know more about the body that I lived in in ways that I could see.
My non-traditional approach to this journey manifested itself yet again during my senior year with my decision to take a few years off before recommitting myself to the pursuit of medicine. This was a decision I made for myself because it worked best for the circumstances in my life at the time. With these years off I am taking active steps to learn about physician-patient relationships and gain as much medical knowledge as possible, while also looking for opportunities to serve in my community. I then plan on attending a one-year post-baccalaureate program with hopes of matriculating into medical school.
Of course, there are many ways to pursue a medical/professional school degree. By using the term “non-traditional” here, I am referring to me breaking away from the conditioned belief my peers and I went into undergrad with that you must be a hard-science major and go to medical/professional school straight from undergrad if you chose to further your education.