How Have You Changed Over The Years Essay

Summarize your activities during the 2017-2018 academic year. Describe how your activities are preparing you for a medical career.
January 2017-Summer 2018: Full-time research assistant for the Innovative Strategies team at a WIC agency. My role includes transcriptions/translations, data analysis as well as creating and conducting questionnaires to improve participants’ experience. I am in charge of doing literature review and doing summaries of our results. This position has allowed me to use skills learned through my Master’s in Global Health, by being involved in analyzing topics and creating and implementing campaigns such as Zika prevention and improving Breastfeeding among Arabic-Speaking participants.
October 2017-TBD: United Nations Volunteer through the UNV Online Volunteering Service. Involved in different tasks such as translation/transcription, research, writing/editing and teaching/training in

My current job as a research assistant has provided me with the opportunity to work as part of a team to achieve shared goals as well as to receive and provide feedback from other team members. Social skills and cultural competence are other competencies that I continue to strengthen. In the last 10 months, I have been able to interact with cultures and perspectives new to me which I have learned to appreciate, understand and respect. As a potential medical professional, my main drive is to alleviate others’ distress and help others, and through my current job and as a volunteer I have been able to help others locally and globally in a direct or indirect way. Finally, these experiences continue to strengthen different important skills in the medical field such as ethical responsibility, resilience, responsibility, continuous improvement, adaptability, and