I learned what was expected of me as a student and future doctor, I got a firm grasp on how to work as part of a team in order to be organized and to solve problems effectively using different perspectives. It became apparent to me how medical knowledge and interpersonal skills are equally needed to give the patients the best possible service. I practiced these tools in classrooms, labs, as well as in a free clinic my classmates and I volunteered in an underserved area in Tijuana. I learned how to manage time and stress for situations that occurred outside of school such as my mother’s psychiatric disorder. Unfortunately, I have a failing grade from UABC because I was not present for the final exam for that course due to the fact that I had a placement test at the college I enrolled in in the US at the same time. Though I had left UABC a few days before the test for my move to the US, I was not officially dropped by the school until the end of the …show more content…
From these experiences, I have acquired skills and competencies that I will use in my medical career as well as in my daily life such as ethical responsibility, adaptability, resilience, and social awareness. At the free clinic, I met many patients who have the drive and interest of becoming healthier and controlling their conditions but do not have the knowledge or tools to do so. Here, I met “Ray”, a patient who received medical attention but did not seem to improve, until one day someone realized that
“Ray” did not know how to read, so instead of reading the instructions for his medication, he would just randomly take pills. Now he gets his medication with stickers with drawings on the bottles for him to know which and how many pills to take during the morning or evening and his health has improved