Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Awards Honors Programs
Timeline
Generic

Dejia Brooks

Www.linkedin.com/in/dejia-brooks-2oo5

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience

Work History

Study Group Leader

Spelman College Student Success Program
Atlanta, GA
08.2024 - Current
  • Develop strategies to help students adjust to college life, manage stress, and develop better study habits.
  • Facilitate weekly mentoring sessions for academic and personal growth.
  • Instructed individuals in job search and application strategies, resume writing and interview skills.

Fellow

The Braven Accelerator
Atlanta, GA
01.2024 - Current
  • Develop workforce skills such as leadership, working and managing, communicating, and networking, working in teams, and problem solving by completing a 14-week leadership and professional development course.
  • Design a career roadmap by engaging in a 7-step process that required self-assessment and reflection, as well as role investigation and evaluation to decide the steps needed to achieve career goals.

MedXplore Summer Intern

Advocate Christ Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
06.2025 - 08.2025
  • Educated the Englewood community on when to see their primary care physician, urgent care, and the emergency room, due to observed overcrowding of the emergency room with non-emergent cases.
  • Shadowed two physicians over a five-week period in Obstetrics and Gynecology (Labor and Delivery) and Family Medicine, gaining over 40 hours of clinical exposure and insight into patient care, diagnostic processes, and interdisciplinary teamwork.
  • Volunteered with Advocate’s Food Pharmacy to bag and distribute nutrient-rich foods, directly supporting food access for over 200 community members, and promoting healthier eating habits among underserved populations.

Intern

Jesse Brown VA Clinical Immersion Program
Chicago, IL
06.2024 - 08.2024
  • Delivered presentations on diabetes education to approximately twenty-five veterans at the Jesse Brown Veterans Hospital, focusing on prevention, management, and lifestyle modification to promote awareness and support improved health outcomes.
  • Completed a project focused on quality assessment surveying over 150 veterans for the Jesse Brown Veterans Administration Program, analyzing services and barriers to care, to name areas for improvement.
  • Accompany 35 morning rounds with medical team members, seeing procedures such as physical exams and diagnostic tests and shadowed thirteen specialists, such as surgeons, cardiologists, gynecologists, radiologists, primary care, and geriatric doctors.

Education

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - HEALTH SCIENCE

SPELMAN COLLEGE
ATLANTA, GA
05.2027

Skills

  • CPR Certified
  • Stop the bleed trained
  • Mental health First Aid trained
  • Asthma Crisis Management trained
  • Gunshot wound care trained
  • Team collaboration

Awards Honors Programs

  • DEAN'S LIST, 2023-PRESENT
  • I AM ABEL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION, 2020-PRESENT
  • ARABIC HONOR SOCIETY, 2019-PRESENT
  • ALPHA LAMBDA DELTA, 2023
  • AME SCHOLAR, 2024-PRESENT

Timeline

MedXplore Summer Intern

Advocate Christ Medical Center
06.2025 - 08.2025

Study Group Leader

Spelman College Student Success Program
08.2024 - Current

Intern

Jesse Brown VA Clinical Immersion Program
06.2024 - 08.2024

Fellow

The Braven Accelerator
01.2024 - Current

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - HEALTH SCIENCE

SPELMAN COLLEGE

Similar Profiles

CREATE PROFILE
Dejia Brooks