Personal Narrative: My Internship At Mount Sinai Medical Center

I have been volunteering at the University of Maryland Medical Center since the summer of my freshman year. As a volunteer at the Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit at the hospital, I am committed to provide excellence in service, work independently and efficiently, and exhibit patient interaction skills. Ever since I have started volunteering at the hospital, I have learned to become more patient and understanding toward the people who I interact with, and consequently, I have become a more sympathetic and compassionate person.

While a student in the Human Services Department at Wallace State Community College, in Hanceville, AL I was required to perform 450 Clinical hours of Internship for graduation. The place of my tutorship was The Pathfinders Half-Way House located in Huntsville, AL. My first responsibility there was to correctly file away applications for admissions. In doing so I became privy to the unique and dubious methodology of coding each applicant. One code indicates their race, sex, gender, married, single, divorced, with or without children, drug of choice, whether they were HIV positive, intravenous user active within the last 30 days, previous treatment or not, how many times in treatment, dual diagnosis, proclivity towards violence or not,

As you know or may not know, next Tuesday will mark the start of my last two weeks of my internship with Juana Gonzales, the Clinical Practice Director. She suggested that you might be willing to let me spend a day observing you, so I can learn more about the administrator’s roles and deepens my knowledge of the Kaiser Permanente clinical policies and procedures.

As a medical assistant student I participated in a month long internship at North Country Family Health Center in Watertown New York. I was interning at the Health Center where I was active with many Medical Assistants and LPN’S.

My internship with Dr. Kharouf last summer was a paid position, in which I served as an assistant in his practice. The bulk of this job entailed aiding Dr. Kharouf as he conducted a variety of procedures, including brace and retainer adjustments, cleft palate pre-operation preparations, as well as tooth reshaping and repair. Often these procedures required x-rays, retainer formation, mold creation, and taking bite indicators, the responsibilities of which fell to me. Retainer formation and mold creation were the most common of these activities, as I conducted these on a daily basis. While pouring up molds was relatively straightforward, the retainers were more complex, especially when a permanent retainer was required. However, Dr. Kharouf helped develop my ability to synthesize synthetic retainers, a valuable skill he assured me I would be using regularly in both dental school and my future practice. Complementing these daily tasks, Dr. Kharouf’s office also frequently utilized an indirect bonding method of brace application, of which I was responsible for the creation of temporary brace settings, as well as the application of these braces onto new patients. The latter portion of this job I initially found to be quite difficult, not

The experience I will get from the program is an inspirational and unexpected view of the continent that I may visit during the short period of time. This will connect also with the biomedical program I’m in it will show a way of aspect of helping others. Africa is an rich continent but so many people are poor and their governor failing to fight against corruption just like the state I live in Louisiana and its poor it’s in debt. It also connect with the knowledge African people have to start their own business to provide for their family and I want to invest in starting my own business so I will be working for myself and make how much money I want to make. We have education crisis that we in school but we learn so little while in school

For the past 16 weeks, I was Norton Healthcare’s Child Life Intern in Louisville, Kentucky. I received a thorough and comprehensive clinical education through my internship experience. I completed three rotations at two separate hospitals. At Norton Children’s Hospital, I completed a 6-week rotation on the medical-surgical unit and a 4-week rotation in the pediatric emergency department. At Norton Women’s and Children’s Hospital, I completed a 6-week rotation covering all units, even the adult units. I had one manager, two coordinators, and three preceptors, one of whom was one of my coordinators. In fact, I was Norton Healthcare’s first Association of Child Life Professional’s (ACLP) accredited intern. As an ACLP accredited internship site,

An experience I have which has pushes me outside of my comfort zone is my internship at the Michigan Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP). In this role, I am the youngest person on the team and am working with a wide range of professionals, such as medical school students and faculty, residency program directors, family physicians, and fellow MAFP staff. At first, I felt like an outsider in this role because I was so young and did not have the knowledge of someone who had completed medical or graduate school, like many of the people I interacted with. I felt unable to contribute significantly to the group outside of completing typical intern tasks like logging and organizing information. Additionally, I felt like I was continuously behind everyone

Throughout my childhood and undergraduate experience, I realized that I wanted to develop a more meaningful role in patient care. I found my passion in volunteering, which then developed, into my career as a patient care associate. Although I cannot give medicine I can positively influence a patient’s experience in the hospital while working on skills of compassion and empathy. My current occupation lays a great educational foundation in the operations of a hospital while learning how to work with the medical team beneficially. This is only a stepping-stone as I aspire to continue my education and develop a more meaningful role in patient wellbeing that I believe can be furthered by The Ohio State University.

When I entered Cedars-Sinai in the early fall, the weather was warm and the sky was bright. I remember walking straight to the location of the first Pre-Healthcare Volunteer Program meeting. When entering the room, I saw the gleaming faces of the new volunteers yet I could not find anyone that looked like me. Surely, there was no other dark brown and dark eyed young women, it was only me. I was the only person of Hispanic background. Immediately, I felt a sense of accomplishment knowing that I had gained acceptance to a competitive program and that I was proudly representing my people in the room. Yet, as the program progressed that sense of accomplishment vanished and melancholy replaced it. Although I was the only Hispanic in my cohort, I believed that I might find other Hispanic professionals in the hospital. On the contrary, I witnessed an extreme lack of diversity in the group of physicians that worked in the hospital and more specifically in the surgical floor.

This internship experience exceeded my personal expectations. I am very grateful that I was able to take an internship position with Honda Indy Toronto. This internship not only assisted in my graduation process from an exceptional program at Brock University, it opened my world into an entirely different ballpark. Without this experience, I would have never been able to receive the large amount of interviews that I have been able to receive across Ontario. From Mississauga, Richmondhill, Oakville, and Toronto, I have been to different interviews, not only because of my educational background, but my practical experience as well. Overall, this internship experience far exceeded my expectations. I am very glad that I worked for such a

Hospitals are a great way for a medical student to serve the community as well as gain valuable experience in their future field. For this reason, I have spent around forty hours from the end of the summer up until now volunteering at HonorHealth hospital. I volunteered as a transporter, what this means is that I move equipment, medical documents and lab samples around the hospital. I also help discharge patients by pushing them in a wheelchair to their car. Through this experience I was able to make life easier on people who were vulnerable and trying to recover as well as the busy staff member who treated them. I had many interactions with people and by from this I have a better understanding of impact my service had. I will be discussing: How psychology can explain social interaction, how outside factors can influence a person 's sense of self, how behaviors and situations can help you understand a person, the importance of communication as well as focus, and the environment shapes the organization.

Although, these myriad exposures allowed me to expand my horizons, I was still in search of an unparalleled experience to fulfill my own desire for emotional connection and astute thirst for knowledge. Shadowing a physician at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, New Jersey, was an enlightening experience, which helped me to become well versed with the medical system and made me realize the endless responsibilities of an intern. The self-satisfaction I gained by noting the appreciation not only on the faces of the patients, but also the supporting medical staff inspired me to be more empathetic and understanding with the next patient I encountered. Through my experiences at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital of my observer-ship and research, I became very determined and cognizant of my desire to pursue the field of

Starting my clinical internship at the Crisis Stabilization Unit brought many emotions. The realization that this internship was one of the final steps towards identifying myself as a professional social worker hit me. During the first two weeks, it did become apparent that one of my challenges is my self-confidence as a social worker. I still struggle knowing if I am making a right decision or saying the correct thing to a client. That is shown when I am doing group therapy. I start to get anxious when I speak to clients as a group. I hope that the more I practice and interact with the clients that I will be able to gain more confidence and comfortable doing group sessions with them.

July 5th, 2016, I had the opportunity to participate in one of the most incredible experiences of my life. From that day on, I felt I was getting luckier each day. It was July 5th, to August 1st, when I took part in a very special internship at Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. My mother is a current RN at the famous hospital, and she is the one who helped me take part in this internship. This whole experience started when my mom got the idea from Dr. Padilla, whom she has encounters with from time to time at the hospital. I must admit, I was not looking forward to this when my mom brought about the idea to me. At first, I wasn’t into it. It took some time for it to grow on me, and for me to become excited about going