As an aspiring M.D. or M.D./PhD, it is important to experience the research side of medicine and observe first-hand how it translates into the medical field. By having this clinical/biomedical research experience, I believe that I will have a more holistic and comprehensive perspective of healthcare and medicine that will help me become an exceptional physician one day.
As a Neuroscience major following a pre-med track, I have covered a wide range of courses such as chemistry, physics, biology, and various neuroscience classes. I have spent three years as a research volunteer at Texas Biomedical Device Center Neuroscience Cortical Plasticity Lab. We have developed a therapy to help brain injury patients fully reengage in life. For the past several years, we have performed research on how vagus nerve stimulation helps patients recover from disorders such as tinnitus and chronic pain, stroke, traumatic brain injury, autism, and schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease.
During this time, I learned various research skills such as handling laboratory animals such as rats, running lab rat behavior shifts, histology, and perfusions. My histology duties include the training of any new histology members …show more content…
During this time, I have had parents who are under enormous stress let slip that they are struggling to pay for their child's medical bills and I have had kids whose parents do not have the time to visit them as their parents have to work in order to pay for their child's healthcare. After seeing the struggles these families go through, I wanted to help them in some way and decided to create a club called Allies 4 Children this past semester (A4C) at my university. The main purpose of A4C is to fundraise money to donate to low socioeconomic families to help with their child's medical bills and to give my fellow peers volunteer and clinical
As a Neuroscience major following a pre-med track, I have covered a wide range of courses such as chemistry, physics, biology, and various neuroscience classes. I have spent three years as a research volunteer at Texas Biomedical Device Center Neuroscience Cortical Plasticity Lab. We have developed a therapy to help brain injury patients fully reengage in life. For the past several years, we have performed research on how vagus nerve stimulation helps patients recover from disorders such as tinnitus and chronic pain, stroke, traumatic brain injury, autism, and schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease.
During this time, I learned various research skills such as handling laboratory animals such as rats, running lab rat behavior shifts, histology, and perfusions. My histology duties include the training of any new histology members …show more content…
During this time, I have had parents who are under enormous stress let slip that they are struggling to pay for their child's medical bills and I have had kids whose parents do not have the time to visit them as their parents have to work in order to pay for their child's healthcare. After seeing the struggles these families go through, I wanted to help them in some way and decided to create a club called Allies 4 Children this past semester (A4C) at my university. The main purpose of A4C is to fundraise money to donate to low socioeconomic families to help with their child's medical bills and to give my fellow peers volunteer and clinical