Scheduling my first clinical rotation

The coordinator for for my first clerkship sent out a scheduling e-mail letting me know that I will be doing Adult Ambulatory Care first (April 25 – May 20, 2011) and Rural Community Care second (May 23 – June 17, 2011). Exciting!

Included in the e-mail was a questionnaire that asked for some basic information and preferences about where I want to do my rural rotation. They also asked some more personal questions getting at my interests in medicine. One in particular caught me off-guard:

"What aspects of medicine do you find MOST interesting or appealing? Why?"

I tried to answer it impulsively, without over-thinking it too much. This is what came out:

Preventative medicine and the obesity epidemic - because it seems to involve everything from society to behavior/psychology to neurobiology to genetics, and it has such a staggering impact on so many different levels.