Maryland Shock Trauma Center Internship Paper

During my internship at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center (STC), I gained more confidence in my decision in eventually pursuing a career in health care, either through being a researcher or a physician. I first started my internship at the University of Maryland STC in my senior year of high school as a requirement for my magnet program. The internship was a volunteer position but we performed basic tasks such as stocking each bay with supplies and saline solution, retrieving blood from the blood bank when needed, and providing blankets and socks for incoming patients. I never paid attention to the importance of these tasks until one specific incident.
I remember a patient coming in with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. She was a young adult, probably in her twenties. When she came in she was unconscious and the physician on duty had to perform surgery to remove the bullet. The patient had lost a lot of blood so I had to go to the blood bank to get blood for the patient. Knowing this was a serious situation, I rushed to the blood bank to retrieve the …show more content…
I am a hard worker that will strive to help researchers meet all the goals that this organization hopes to accomplish. The skills and experience that I have described before will help me to do each task that is required of an intern. I am specifically applying as an intern to this organization because I enjoy working with children and I feel that this organization is serving the public. The GNC, Growth and Nutrition Clinic, is gathering information that can be used to provide proper treatment to children that are having developmental problems and to prevent other families from being in situations where the child is not getting the nutrition and care needed to grow normally. I want to be a part of this research that will aid other people because a job is much more gratifying when you know that you have helped