Argumentative Essay On Professional Contact

My professional contact is Danya Abor, she is currently a graduate student going for her master degree to become a Physician Assistant from East Carolina University (ECU), with a bachelors in Public Health. I met my contact by socializing with people at the ECU Health Department during my search for Clinical Laboratory Science Degree information. She currently works at Rex Hospital, helping patients with chemo-therapy treatment, performs cancer screening for patients, and organizes health fairs at Raleigh, North Carolina. Danya helped me understand the process that takes place while screening patients that have cancer, and what treatments are implemented after the diagnoses. I believe having her as a professional contact will help during my time in school and afterwards, given that she has gone through similar classes and career goals herself.
I began by asking her about what degree she was obtaining at ECU and we discuss her goal of becoming a Physician Assistant. Danya told me about the volunteer hours and clinical rotations she performed to be accepted into her school. She informed me about the route she took to be competitive

for her program and how they correlated towards my degree. I feel that our conversation went well since she has a plethora of experience from obtaining her bachelor’s degree in Public Health. She informed me that she has taken majority of the pre-requisite classes that I will be taking in the future, offering to assist me, if I have any difficulty understanding the material.
My favorite part of our discussion was getting to know more about her passion towards patients and the amount of effort she takes to better their health.

I asked her about how difficult it was to talk to patients as they go through chemo-therapy. She seemed to have a positive response, telling me that its hard at times, but patients need to comprehend what the treatment does to their body. What I think I need to improve on for the future, is how I went about asking so many questions towards my contact. I consistently kept asking questions with little response about myself and what I was interested in. I think that my contact did not really understand much information about me because of my bombardment of questions. Next time I do talk to a professional in the health-care field, I will start off by paraphrasing more about myself to

them.
Altogether, our discussion went well, I feel like I was able to understand more about the Public Health aspect of healthcare and the task that come along with it. Even though this is not the degree I want to obtain, it did help broaden my scope to occupations and degrees that I find interesting and want to know more about.