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, this patient would not have been able to take medication metabolized by the liver because their liver function was likely severely impaired. It is a lot of fun to work with students in lab because, along with being their supplemental instructor, we get to learn together when we see patients with certain abnormalities or diseases. We will soon dissect through the colon and learn about the functionality in the three regions of the colon. This will also be pharmacologically relevant because several medications are used to treat GI diseases and digestive troubles.

Hours:
11/11 - 2 Hours
11/18 - 3 Hours
Total: 5 Hours
Total Thus Far: 26 Hours

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