My Experience As A Medical Assistant

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During my observership, my clinic intern mentor was Shiyama Hassan. Overall it was an enjoyable, less stressful academic experience.I got a chance to take patient histories, examination and patient’s vital sign monitoring and charting. I didn’t feel much difference in observing my mentor taking the history and when I was taking the history, it could be related to my past experience. However, every time I was curious to know what is happening with the patients and what caused him to seek naturopathic medical advice. During this clinic shadowing, I saw genuine interest of my mentor and supervisor to help patients concerns, unlike to allopathic model of prescribing medication. It helped me to improve my interviewing skills to look root cause for …show more content…

As a result, I always felt that I am actively participating in patients’ care. She allowed me to perform patient examinations most of the time and encouraged me to build up a good rapport with the patients. I think my past experience and medical knowledge was helped me lot during the history taking because I was able to go through history taking in a systematic manner and at the same time I could think of possible differential diagnosis. Furthermore, working in a medical clinic as a physician assistant also helped me a lot because one of the responsibilities delegated to me is taking patients history, however, this time it was different that I had to work out and actively think about a possible cause for patient concerns. The weakness I observe during history taking was sometimes I am little quick that might hurt the doctor-patient relationship, So, I am planning to improve my listening skill with less interruption to patients, I believe that might help the patient to express their concerns freely. Also, I am determined to listen to patients concerns in a non- judgemental manner to get the unbiased clinical …show more content…

It reminded me of my internship in general medicine where my consultant started the ward rounds after 10 minutes of mindfulness meditation session. I learn several things from my supervisor, most importantly I appreciate that he created a non-stressful learning environment for interns under his supervision. The clinic preview time was like brainstorming sessions for me. However, I found sometimes clinic interns didn’t deliver enough information for an effective discussion on the topic. They only mentioned about the working diagnosis and therapeutic modality they are providing. I believe, if they provide a summary of the case it could be more beneficial for all the other students since patients’exposure is limited. I see it as a drawback and that hinders the objective of a teaching

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