December Community Service- Master's in Pharmacology
This month, my main volunteer work has been volunteering as a Teaching Assistant for Anatomy, an undergraduate course at Tulane University. This has been my main volunteer opportunity throughout the whole semester, alongside other work. It has been a lot of fun to work with students that are learning this for the first time. I learn a lot myself by helping them and realizing what material I don't know. It has been especially fun to serve as a Teaching Assistant while in the Master's in Pharmacology because I can apply what I've learned about medicine to different organs and their functionality. Along with helping students with dissections, I hold review sessions and teach them how to prepare for the examination. This unit was a continuation of last month when we worked through the abdominal section. This was an exciting unit because most of the drugs we have studied in class have their effect on abdominal organs or are at least metabolized and excreted through abdominal o