Experience

• Helped 10 or more patients each shift with IV alarms, pain medication requests, ice water, and whatever else they needed.
• Helped with paperwork for patients being admitted.
• Shadowed radiology techs and learned how IV contrast makes MRI, CT, and X-ray images clearer.
• Watched a physician assistant drain a seroma from a patient's surgical wound.
• Shadowed a PA in the cath lab and learned how the hospital moves heart attack patients straight from the ER to treatment.

• Take vitals for 15 or more patients each shift, including oxygen, blood pressure, and temperature, plus height and hearing at wellness visits.
• Read picture books to young patients to help them relax before exams and shots.
• Shadow doctors and nurses and watch how the clinic runs.
• Learned how COVID-19 and strep tests are done.

• The MRC supports emergency and medical response for a county of more than 2.4 million people.
• Completed training for immunization clinics, outbreak response, and community health education.
• Wrote a research project on heat-related illness and how to prevent it.
• On track for 90+ hours.

• Researched the market and competitors to plan how a new medicine should be positioned.
• Reviewed ad campaigns to make sure they matched the brand's message.

• Joined 10+ voter registration and turnout events, reaching 500+ people.
• Researched the history of activism and civics and presented my projects to team leaders. Earned a certificate.

• Made a prosthetic socket cast and model teeth with dental impression material.
• Practiced several suturing techniques with medical students watching.
• Rotated through specialty stations over three days and had dinner with UT Southwestern doctors and medical students.

• Dissected a cow eye and a sheep heart.
• Practiced suturing on pig's feet and built clay anatomy and skin models.
• Learned from teachers who used to be physicians.

Taught English and math to kids of all ages, organized books, and graded papers.

Guided younger kids through invention and prototyping projects and learned the basics of patents and trademarks.

Volunteered at a STEM camp for kids, with HOSA, and at food drives, and went to two Model UN conferences.