November Community Service - Master's in Pharmacology
This month, my main volunteering work was as a Teaching Assisstant for Anatomy at Tulane. I have been doing this throughout the semester and it has been a great pleasure helping students learn and enjoy anatomy, especially their cadaver lab. I help students in this lab work through the dissections as well as helping them prepare for exams. We help the students prepare for exams by holding review sessions and giving them practice tag exams. This unit was especially exciting because we worked on the abdominal section of the human body. This includes the intestine, liver, and kidney. These areas have been highly discussed in our Master's of Pharmacology as drugs are metabolized and excreted in these organs. Several drugs are metabolized primarily by the liver and excreted through the kidney and urine. In our cadaver lab we also saw a cadaver with matastatic liver disease. This means the liver was 2-3 times the size of a normal liver and the gall bladder was damaged. Pharmacologically