American Medical Student Association

and learn. After I graduated from high school, I decided to attend Miami Dade College where I had the opportunity to be a STEM ambassador. Since being a STEM ambassador is general, I specifically chose to be a lab assistant where I helped so students.…

issue to deal with in the health care environment because it had to deal with human beings, especially life and death. Ethical dilemma becomes an issue when patient, family members, and health care providers have different views or opinions regarding medical care. Sometimes, health care providers believe that a medically challenged or disabled patient will have such a terrible quality of life, that he or she would not want to live. While the family may not agree, wants to keep a loved one…

techniques, veterinary physiology, and inorganic chemistry. But vets just can’t go to any college or university, an aspiring vet must attend an accredited “American Veterinary Medical Association” where they will get their Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree ("Tufts Pre-Veterinary Society."). Along with passing college a vet must also pass the American Veterinary Licensing Examination. Vets are required to complete a residency program and some will complete internships. The experience a vet…

for their injured patients. Working in the Physical Therapy career is very rewarding. Physical therapists are health care professionals who diagnose and treat individuals of all ages who have medical problems or other health-related conditions that limit their…

to stress in its student body causing many psychological disorders, such as anxiety and depression. These disorders are very common in students as they are vulnerable in their new environments causing a lack of will power to pursue the goals they…

Education in America has always been in the hot seat and rightly so. Education to the young students in the United States are bringing up the next generation of government leaders or businessmen that will run the country. Recently debated is how specifically we should go about improving education in America. An idea that has been brought up is moving primary education into single gender settings rather than the traditional coeducational setting. While this plan has many proponents of it, it has…

The Hippocratic Corpus is a school of thought created by Hippocrates that was taught to medical students (Week One Lecture). This way of thinking was so highly regarded that a temple was built to honor it and to teach future medical professionals. The Asklepieion was “built in 357 BC in Kos” and can be compared to a hospital (Week One Slides). Adherents to the Hippocratic Corpus approached the diagnosis and treatment of the ill with regards to the patient as an individual. Rather than lump the…

room on St. Patrick’s Day to sing him songs. He was in barbershop, so music was clearly an immense influence on his life. I was not there to witness the singing, but before the therapist, he was bedridden and depressed. My mom said that whenever the student came in with a guitar and asked if he’d like to sing, my grandpa actively participated and was an entirely different person the rest of the day. It was something she has never experienced before and an experience I wish I was able to…

otherwise known as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. There she spoke about how childhood obesity greatly targets African- American children and how this is now a big problem in society. In the speech, Mrs. Obama discusses how to solve this problem as well as providing facts, and specifics about why and how this is now a major problem in the African American society.…

that many high school students are unaware of sexual education because they were never informed. In most cases parents do not know how to address the topic of sex. Teens and parents believe that the discussion of sex is uncomfortable to address. As a result, high school students who are not educated in sexual education are more likely to become sexually active because they are not informed of the consequences. If schools provided the proper education for high school students then teen…