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Education
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Certification
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Mariam Sinnagwa

Rochester,MN

Summary

With my abilities like problem solving, patience, and being goal oriented. I was able me join and work with highly skilled medical professionals and enabled me work on medical projects like the Aurora project enhancing my ability to work under pressure,with team and also independently.As a Mayo Clinic intern and Volunteer helped me get a better day to day medical and patient care experience from shadowing physicians and surgeons in clinic and visiting different work areas like Labs improving my knowledge about healthcare. My ability to work under pressure and my dedication to service-oriented tasks have prepared me for challenging roles in healthcare.

Overview

1
1
year of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Mayo Clinic Volunteer

In Patient Care
Rochester, MN
09.2024 - Current
  • Restocking Isolation Carts, blanket warmers, and patient rooms with gloves, extra pillows, and more.
  • Rounding on patients to identify additional support, like fixing their bed position or talking to them
  • Exploring day-to-day hospital operations.
  • Food service assistance includes helping patients order their food and filling out the percentage of food eaten chart.

Mayo Clinic Intern

DREAM Fall Internship
Rochester, MN
09.2024 - 12.2024
  • Attended the AURORA workshop with the fellows to discuss ways to modify the AURORA curriculum of the project at large.
  • Shadowed two general and breast cancer surgeons, in their clinical rotations which gave me exposure to how health care is provided behind the scenes, not as a patient.
  • Shadowed a physician in gastroenterology and hepatology gave me a different perspective on how similar and different the clinical rotations could be, depending on what your profession is.
  • Presented about the Overall experience at the end of the Internship Celebration, which inspired people from different Career departments to join the Aurora Campaign.

Mayo Clinic Intern

Mayo Clinic Paid Summer Internship
Rochester, MN
06.2024 - 08.2024
  • Personally worked with different Mayo surgery department members and inter disciplinary teams to develop the Aurora Project.
  • Attended simulation lab practices with the fellows, giving me a chance to work on skills like suturing, ultrasound scanning, mastectomy, and sebaceous wound closure.
  • Shadowed in one of the pathology labs at Eiseignburg, which enabled me to observe how pathologists work effectively with the surgeons, even during the surgical procedures, to provide better care to the patients. It also gave me a chance to observe how the frozen section procedure works, and how effectively they all worked together as a team in the lab.
  • Met with different health care personnel from various health career sectors, such as Mark Henderson (Information Technology), Dr. Chris Pierret (Microbiology and Molecular Sciences), Ms. Auodia Stacy, MBA, Dr. Sandya Pruthi (Internal Medicine), and many more, which gave me the chance to connect with them and have a better understanding of them as individuals, and the jobs they were representing.
  • visited other health departments at Mayo, like the Gastroenterology department, which provided good insight into many career paths at the Mayo Clinic.
  • Presented about my overall experience as a Mayo intern at our end-of-internship celebration party.

Education

High School Diploma -

Century High School
Rochester, MN
05-2025

Career And Technical Education Center
Rochester, MN
05-2025

High School Diploma -

Emirates Secondary School
Uganda, Jinja

Skills

  • Patient care experience from volunteering and shadowing
  • Working on projects like Aurora taught me teamwork, as well as how to work independently
  • Balancing school, volunteering, and internships helped me learn how to work under pressure, and flexibility
  • Coming from a diverse background, it enables me to connect with different cultures
  • Medical terminology from a course that I took at C-Tech
  • Having to present at the end of the internships, and my background as a debater, improved my public speaking skills

Languages

English
Professional
Luganda
Native/ Bilingual
Lusoga
Native/ Bilingual

Accomplishments

  • I was selected from 100s of applicants from different schools to become part the Mayo clinic Internships twice.
  • I was selected by my Science teacher and a Board of Leaders at Mayo Clinic to Join The Science Bound scholars because of my determination and passion towards health care
  • Certificate of Completion from the Discover Mayo Clinic Paid Internship.
  • Certificate of completion from DREAM student Internship Program.
  • Certificate from Prefectorial body of Emirates Secondary School.

Certification

  • Certificate of Completion from the Discover Mayo Clinic Paid Internship.
  • Certificate of completion from DREAM student Internship Program.
  • Certificate from Prefectorial body of Emirates Secondary School.

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Mayo Clinic Volunteer

In Patient Care
09.2024 - Current

Mayo Clinic Intern

DREAM Fall Internship
09.2024 - 12.2024

Mayo Clinic Intern

Mayo Clinic Paid Summer Internship
06.2024 - 08.2024

High School Diploma -

Century High School

Career And Technical Education Center

High School Diploma -

Emirates Secondary School

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