Tentative medical student who is very passionate about their studies and wishes to further embark on a broader range of learning to enhance their knowledge of the medical system. Has various forms of experience that contribute to the medical field through: the role of teaching assistant where they learned about the various biological components of the human body; medical internship experience where pharmacology was experienced on a minimal level but still useful for learning about medications, clinical experience, and learning the typical scope of practice in general family care as well as emergency care in an underprivileged medical setting.
- Assisted a previous professor in the laboratory component of a previous enrolled human anatomy course.
- Organized various specimens and diagrams in the laboratory to the teacher's liking.
- Assisted students in learning more about various human biological structures through human interactive learning.
- Assisted the teacher in preparing lab practicals.
- Graded all laboratory assignments such as inquiries about the structures studied the current week in lab and lab practicals.
- Worked "open-labs" where students could come in and use the specimens for extra studying, answer questions about their assignments, and administer weekly quizzes/labs that had been missed.
- Helped refresh my mind on the material to prep me for further studying.
- Worked for a local government family clinic for the underprivileged that lived in the "townships" of Cape Town.
- Performed in rotations for various medical experiences. Pharmacy technician, triage, emergency operations, primary care.
- In the pharmacy technician component, I worked alongside other permanent pharmacy technicians and learned how to fill scripts, how to organize different medicines based on their purpose.
- In triage, I learned how to document basics about patients such as their weight and height using the metric system, took temperature, and noted symptoms for the doctor to observe and tentatively perform a diagnosis.
- In emergency operations, I learned how to suture, insert a catheter to pulmonary fluids, how to wrap casts, perform an ECG, and sedation.
- In primary care, I learned how to read X-rays in regards to pulmonary diagnosis, categorize different symptoms to perform diagnoses with the help of a physician, and how the referral system works.