Yush Kukreja Master's in Pharmacology

This month my only volunteer work was tutoring a high school student in Chemistry. I tutored her for 2 hours in different subjects, such as intermolecular forces and equations revolving around Avogadro's number. Though these topics are not directly related to my Master's degree, it is always good for me to review my knowledge in core science topics as my graduate education often builds on these fundamental topics. Alongside the opportunity to review some fundamental topics in chemistry, I thoroughly enjoy tutoring. I have been tutoring math and science since I was in high school, when I would tutor my peers in different subjects. In college I tutored high school students and I tutored at KIPP Believe Primary school, a school for students in underserved communities. I loved tutoring at KIPP because I felt as though I was really helping students and taking the time to focus on their difficulties, which is something not many other people have taken the time to do. It is important ...

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...

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 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...