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I spent my three week’s Introductory Institutional-Practice Pharmacy Experience (IPPE) from 6/12/17 to 6/30/17 at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, which turned out to be an unforgettable, eye-opening learning experience. During this three weeks’ rotation, I shadowed several pharmacists in different areas including IV, central pharmacy, trauma, antibiotic stewardship, emergency department, medication reconciliation, medical ICU and internal medicine. All the pharmacists are friendly and willing to

The patient preparation will be determined by the attending physician. Laboratory personnel must be present for the needle aspiration procedure under the radiologic guidance, and if rendering of the initial interpretation of quality of the specimen is desired. You must then call the cytology department manager

retrospect, I should have asked myself long before embarking on my pre-medical journey. “In terms of moral principles, what do you believe in, and why will that make you a good physician?” For a moment, I was stunned. I was perfectly able to tell them exactly WHAT I had done and why those experiences prepared me to be a good physician. But I was fully unprepared to articulate the

greatest ambition in life. Growing up in an undocumented, low-income household taught me to embrace the hardships of life and to always work hard for my dreams. It was the personal struggles and the impotency that made me realize I wanted to become a physician. At times of illness and diseases my family was unable to afford treatment, nor medicine, the only thing to depend on was hope. That hope grew the burden on me to help others, I can empathize with people in need, struggling with the adversities of

In college I will major in biology and earn a bachelor's degree, technically you don't need a premed major as long as you complete science course classes. I chose to major in biology because from recent studies, majoring in biology is a good choice to be ahead of the game. My career goal is to be a pediatrician, in order to do so I must complete a total of 11 years after high school. That is 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school and 3 years of residency. The medical school will get me a

The Parkinson’s patient developing an autonomic dysfunction or the young patient with seizures newly diagnosed as Epilepsy, all fomented my interest in Neurology. Examining the patients, counseling them and reciting the causes of headache for my attendings on ward rounds, all helped me increase my academic and clinical knowledge in the basis of Neurological disease,its manifestaions and treatment. With these clinical experiences gathered during Neurology clerkships, internship and later in USA clincal

then pregnant mother, to make sure the baby was doing well. Without knowing it and at such a young age my healthcare career had just begun. It was not until half way through my undergraduate career that I was introduced to the physician assistant (PA) field. While attending various healthcare seminars the idea of becoming a PA grew more and more fond on me. I loved the idea of having the opportunity to work in various healthcare settings without having to settle for just one. This would allow me to

At 16, my early intrigue in the complexity of the human body and intricacies of biology had lead me into the path of medicine. It dawned on me whilst I gained opportunities to observe and speak to experienced physicians regarding sophisticated human physiology during the warding period of my father before he underwent a balloon angioplasty surgery. My aspiration to pursue medicine was further fortified by my enjoyment in studying Biology and it enormously gratified my discovery of ever new scientific

what Registered nurses can and cannot do, lawfully. The registered nurse gathers patient information like health history for example. The RN also evaluates assessment information to determine present or possible diagnoses to discuss with the attending physician, the RN cannot give a diagnosis on their own. Registered nurses can determine if a medication is right or wrong for a particular patient but cannot change prescription on their own or prescribe any medication in any circumstance. Just as Registered

Despite a lifelong passion for medicine and a desire to pursue a career in healthcare, I'd always struggled to find the right path forward for myself. Nursing? Maybe. Teaching? Possibly. Physician assistant (PA)? Could be. Frustration built up inside of me as I explored the various possibilities, always coming away undecided. Semester after semester, the same frustrations would arise, even to the point of discouraging me from seeking a career in healthcare at all. That all changed one day in 2017