Internship Reflection

After sustaining a knee injury that required for surgical intervention while in high school, I struggled with recurring ailments throughout my intercollegiate career. It was not until my father, who is an Osteopathic physician, was performing manipulation on me did we begin to diagnose the potential causes. The issue was muscle imbalance and limited flexibility in certain areas of my body that was shifting majority of my weight onto my knees while performing certain movements. This went unnoticed by physicians because while performing examinations the scope was concentrated on the immediate areas around my knee. With the knowledge I obtained through manipulation I have been able to treat my knee ailments by strengthening and lengthening muscles throughout my body. Having this experience helped solidify that if I am to be the physician I aspire to be, it is imperative to be trained in this form of medicine.

My shadowing experience this summer has taught me so many new things about physical therapy. It has allowed me to observe the practice and make sense of the new information I have learned. Although therapy has not changed, the lenses through which I view it have. I no longer see a patient performing arbitrary exercises, I see muscles moving in specific patterns. I no longer see a passive stretch being performed, I see soft tissues, ligaments, and capsules being mobilized. I no longer see a diagnosis that receives that same treatment, I see a person that is struggling with an issue and passionate people willing to help through genuine care. I Had my first observation at The Medical Arts Research Center(MARC), an outpatient physical therapy facility in San Antonio. There, I observed 9 patients with musculoskeletal conditions. These included 8 adults and 1 pediatric. The second clinic was Peak Physical Therapy, an outpatient physical therapy clinic in Wylie, Texas. There I saw 8 patients with musculoskeletal conditions including 6 adults and 2 pediatric. During these observations, I saw many components of physical therapy practice. The last place I shadowed was Warm Springs Rehab Hospital of San Antonio. I observed in the post-acute medical facility in which we saw 7 patients with neuromuscular conditions, including 5 adults and 2 pediatric.

I have not yet worked in a school setting, but I have worked in several agencies and offices where collaboration with colleagues was present. One agency I have worked in was a domestic violence shelter, which housed up to forty-five women and children. In addition, we ran a twenty-four hour crisis hotline, provided individual and group counseling services, and educated those out in the community about domestic violence. It took a lot of collaboration with colleagues to have the agency run smoothly and effectively. When issues arose with clients staying in the shelter, my colleagues and I would met to discuss the issues and how we were going to work together to solve them. Together we were able to discuss all of these factors and agree upon

However, physical therapists may need to compromise what is best for patients due to regulations, and limited benefits. Scenarios may surface where ethical issues and associated dilemmas become paramount between what is versus what should be. This could be a challenge for professionals. However, knowing and utilizing available resources especially the APTA, other websites, documents, and references can strengthen practice patterns and treatment options towards creating a better community project. Treating pelvic floor dysfunctions is an area of practice where it is prudent, practical, and perhaps mandatory to first have a physician’s order and possibly collaborate with that physician and/or other professionals. Doing so helps ensuring that the patient gets a correct diagnosis, and gets the most appropriate treatment or treatment options presented to him or her; that no harm is done to the patient; and that each professional on the team does his or her part legally, ethically, and professionally. Finally, if the treatment of pelvic floor disorders is both legally and ethically acceptable within the boundaries of my discipline and scope of practice of my license, there is no doubt that physical therapists should be knowledgeable and competent enough in the primary and alternative treatments for pelvic floor disorders he/she plans to treat, and not treat, to be able to obtain meaningful informed consent from the client and/or his or her

I have successfully completed all of the requirements of the student internship program for COSC 494 – Fall 2015.

This is my reflective account of my performance as a mentor in a clinical setting, assessing the learning environment and the strategies used for teaching and assessing a newly qualified theatre nurse.

I began my MLS program two semesters before moving from a school-based technology facilitator into an elementary school media coordinator position. I served as a media coordinator for an elementary school three years before moving into the role of a district technology facilitator. In my current position, I work with a team of three other district technology facilitators. We each have a curriculum focus, mine is media. I work with media coordinators across the district and advocate for our district’s media programs.

Student M has been attending mentoring program consistently this month. Student M has been working very hard to improve both her Math and English grade by seeking mentoring support on a regular basis. After speaking with Mr. Fernandez, he has communicated how proud of his daughter he was as he notices a great difference in her attitude towards school. Student M has also expressed great interest in joining the future project dream team if she gets accepted into High School for Health Careers and Sciences at the George Washington High School Campus. Student M will continue to attend mentoring program as well as continue seeking educational support.

I am an incoming international student this Fall 2016 at Princeton Theological seminary, but since my Master of Divinity days I have been actively serving as part of the leadership team of the AAR-SBL Women’s Caucus for the past three years. Since 2013, I have been involved in planning the Women’s Caucus sessions for the AAR-SBL annual conferences as well as prepare the minutes of our monthly leadership meetings and annual business meetings. I am a recent member of AAR, but I have been participating in the past four years at the AAR-SBL annual meetings and mostly found myself engaged more with AAR people. My membership at SBL since 2012 was due to its international coalition initiatives. At last year’s AAR-SBL annual conference, I successfully

At this stage of my career, it makes sense that I enroll in the Collegewide Leadership Development Program because I’ve performed many administration and management tasks such as, but not limited to: Chairing the collegewide AET/CMT curriculum redesign, provided leadership as President of the Faculty Senate for two years, acquired articulation agreements with senior institutions, and provided Blackboard and mentorship support to adjuncts.

I have been at my site for about six weeks now and I feel much more comfortable in my current abilities. I have been working on my case summaries and treatment plans further this week. I have realized that keeping a client’s file in order can be a lot of work. Making sure that everything is in the file is very important for any mental health setting, but since my site is a training clinic we are taught to keep our files up to date and have taught me about what can happen if you do not for our future as mental health professionals. As a student who is assigned to check audits (for my graduate assistantship) at the practice I can now appreciate the other side of keeping my own files in order. I like that we have high standards at my site and

S.W. Intern greets S.D. with a smile and thanked her for keeping her appointment. S.D. responds “yeah” and does not make eye contact. S.W. Intern starts with a bit of small talk about Halloween in order to to observe and infer the client’s state of mind.

I sometimes observed during the initial evaluation this gave me a better understanding of the patient’s condition and starting point. I instructed, demonstrated, and supervised the patient with their therapeutic exercises that were purposely meant to reduce pain, improve muscular strength, and increase range of motion. It has been a rewarding experience to see the patient’s progress and recovery. Throughout my internship, I have demonstrated a reasonable standard care of practice when working with patients with special conditions during their therapeutic

It has been a while since I started at the internship and I am really glad I decided to work here. I think the experience in this area is a good preview of my career and future. I am learning some important skills and finding out some things about myself and the tough skin I will need in order to stay in the area of juvenile support.

After this internship made me realised how diverse engineering fields and there is so much new knowledge to learn, considering myself with electrical power engineering background working in construction site which may related on civil engineering field. When I studied the project plan documentations, there is some new term and I need to find extra information on the Internet myself to understand more about the ongoing project. Having said that, knowledge that I have obtained throughout my study in ECU proved to be useful such as basic CAD, mechanic and material courses during my first and second year which make me easier to understand the structure drafting of the floor plans.