Yush Kukreja Master's in Pharmacology

This month, my volunteer work consisted of experiences while being a Teaching Assistant at Tulane University in the Undergraduate Anatomy Cadaver Lab. In this lab, I help students through their dissections while testing them on material and helping them study for examinations. Alongside my work during class time, I held a review session where I set up a practice tag exam for all of the students to come get practice before their real test. It is a great experience to work with the students, especially because they are all as excited about the mateiral as I am. They are eager to learn and really look to me as a valuable resource to help them learn. This unit we worked on the arms, chest, and axilla. The axilla was relevant to our pharmacology program because it includes a lot of nerves that innervate the entire arm, as well as the axillary artery and vein. The vein in the arm is often where drugs are injected via IV to rapidly enter blood circulation. We also dissected the median cubita...

This month I took part in two volunteer opportunities. The first began at the start of the semester. This semester I am a Teaching Assistant for Cellular Anatomy taught at the Tulane Uptown Campus by Sarah Garner. I am serving as a Teaching Assistant as a volunteer and not receiving any compensation. It has been rewarding thus far to help students learn about the human body in a class that I enjoyed so much. Along with that, this material is directly relevant to my desire to pursue medicine, making teaching it all the more exciting. During class, I help students with dissections as well as learning the muscles, vasculature, and nerves of the human body. I also held a review session for their upcoming exam. During this review session, I gave students a practice exam and helped them study properly for their test. Along with my experiences as a teaching assistant, I volunteered at the NOLA Beer Fest, which partners with the Louisiana SPCA. It was a lot of fun volunteering at the event a...