The goals below are what I would like to attain by the end of the academic year and were also chosen in relation to my future career goals.
Learning Goal #1:
- Gaining working knowledge of spreadsheet-based data manipulation, formulas, and basic modeling technique.
What will you do at the internship to achieve this goal?
- My internship involves me creating and curating a database of patients with neuro-onlology diagnosis. This would expose me to a wide range of software being used and would further improve my understanding of them.
Learning Goal #2:
- Be familiar with the safe managment of patient data and being able to analyze scientific information
What will you do at the internship to achieve this goal?
- A significant amount of scientific information will be presented with the database I will be working on which therefore allows me to gain some familiarity.
Learning Goal #3:
- Be able to improve professional communication
What will you do at the internship to achieve this goal?
- In order to achieve this, I can become more conscious of events that are going on in my internship and be able to communicate information based on knowledge.
After I graduate in May of 2023 I plan on attending medical school with plans to become a physician. Growing up I have always known that I wanted to be in the healthcare setting as I enjoyed hospital visits for regular check-ups and was fascinated by how things worked. In addition, I grew up watching my dad enjoy his career as a family medicine physician which had a big influence on my decision.
As of now, I am pretty confident about this career option but I am still learning more as to whether it is a good fit for me through experiences such as this internship and other research opportunities.
For the rest of my time at IUPUI I can explore this pathway by doing more research on the commitments med school requires and how that would affect my wellbeing.
This spring semester I will be looking at other summer opportunities that will further assist me in reaching my career goal such as shadowing.
One of the significant things that I would need to do to succeed would be to prepare for taking the MCAT exam and start considering medical schools to apply to. I have been doing some studying and looking at available resources to help me prepare for the exam in addition to looking at possible references for medical school. By the end of the spring semester I hope to be able to gather all my references and by this time next year I hope to be preparing for graduation.
My time as an intern solidified my career plans as I was able to see certain aspects of my future career and determine if it was a right fit for me.