Journals
These journals reflect my weekly experiences as an athletic training student. Each journal reflects either an actual patient contact experience, or something I am working on in my athletic training courses.
After I have achieved my degrees and licenses, a day in the future life of Sam involves a very busy plan scheduled. I see myself starting the day off with patients scheduled from 9 AM to 12PM, lunch break from 12-1, and then finishing off the day seeing patients until around 5:30. These patients will be coming to me for evaluations from a prior injury. I will be diagnosis the patient by either sending them to imaging or being able to perform certain tests to figure out with their injury consists of. On Monday and Wednesday, I will be working in the operating room assisting the physician with different types of orthopedic surgeries. I see myself seeing around 10 patients a day, this allows me to spend time with the patients to get to know them on a personal basis. Sometimes I will have new patients come into the clinic, but I will be reevaluating these patients to release them. My main goal in life is to help others. I want to be placed some type of health care system that allows me to help as many people as I can. I want to start by helping others as an Athletic Trainer then working my way up to become a Physician Assistant. My dream is to become an PA that has specialized in orthopedics or in women’s health care/pediatrics. I want to be able to know my patients on personal basis and be able to work with them throughout their injury process. I am getting closer and closer to this goal, I have one more year of undergraduate then taking the last step in my schooling process to graduate school. Throughout my undergraduate I am learning so much about orthopedics and believe I will be ahead of others in this category in graduate school. I get excited every morning because I am able to be in a clinic and evaluate different patients which will help me in my future because I will have many patient contacts. Recently, I have talked to two PAs about shadowing them over the summer. I have also looked into taking a course to help prepare me for the GRE. I am planning on taking the GRE over the summer/August time to allow me to have enough time to apply to multiple PA schools. Lastly, I have also been looking at different PA schools around this area because I have been told I can not put all my eggs into one basket (Emory). I am very excited to start my career, however, very hesitant because I do not know where I will end up. I wasn’t able to get any masteries or attempts this week.
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BFunk
3/14/2018 01:56:15 pm
That's a very specific day!
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