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Volunteer Experience

2023

Associate Coordinator & Volunteer

  • Through MOI, Abdjoulie Njai set up an event for middle and high-school student to learn more bout orthopedics and encourage minorities entering the field

  • I worked with Njai to help coordinate the day and volunteer the day of

Diabetes Clinic Manager

2019 - 2020

MedZou is a student-run, free community clinic that serves the most needy in the Columbia community. There are 7 specialty clinics MedZou offers, one of which is the diabetes clinic, considering how common, expensive, and potentially debilitating the disease is.

  • Recruit and manage multidisciplinary team involved in serving diabetic patients such as medical student volunteers, pharmacists, dieticians, and nursing teams 

  • Attend each evening managing the clinic, handle logistics of ensuring staffing is present and patients are being seen 

  • Act as the liaison to ensure supplies, teams, and patients are present at each clinic  

2019 - 2020

Community Outreach Coordinator

  • Plan events for students to help their community including volunteering at Granny’s House, soup kitchens, at Big Brothers Big Sisters, and at Special Olympics (for AMA club at Mizzou)

  • Started a period poverty drive, where those in the Columbia community who needed free access to tampons and other feminine supplies could access these free of charge 

2019 - 2020

Women and Children's Drive

  • Through SIG, we set up a drive for Women and Children's Hospital to provide toys during holidays such as Christmas and Easter 

  • Fund are provided by fundraizing events SIG holds throughout the year

2016-2018

Tutor & TA

  • Held weekly study sessions for students to answer questions and improve their understanding of the material for a total of about 4 hrs/ week for 3 semesters 

  • Graded exams for a total of about 30 hrs/ exam, a total of 120 exams graded 

  • Attended each lecture and gave lectures ~2x month 

  • Free of charge, tutored students one-on-one who were struggling with the content 

Other Activities

Clinical / Quality Improvement Activities

Co-Founder & Research Coordinator, Geriatric Patient Advocacy and Wellness Strategy - University of Missouri School of Medicine (2019 - present)

  • Program was designed to decrease delirium and hospital stay length in trauma surgery patients

  • As co-founder I helped to start up the program, get volunteers, and present the program to hospital personnel

  • As research coordinator I keep up to date data on the patients that are seen as well as quality measures, then synthesize that data to be used for research purposes

Educational Activities

Student Ambassador - University of Missouri School of Medicine (2019 - present)

  • Spoken on panels to pre-medical students, high school students, and parents entailing the components to apply to medical school

  • Given tours of the medical school to medical school candidates, alumni of the university, and parents of current students  

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