My interdisciplinary program is titled ‘Pre Physician Assistant Studies’ which focuses on the prerequisites for physician assistant programs. My program combines chemistry, biology, health and wellness, and psychology courses all of which are prerequisites to PA programs. All the courses in my program relate to each other so well, even the ones in different disciplines and has made learning more enjoyable for me. For my applied project I decided to create a podcast, which allowed me to not only expand my knowledge of the field I am going into but also explore the topics that drew me into the field. I was able to research the topics that excite me and encourage me to become a medical professional. I also was able to tie in interdisciplinary studies to the medical field. This project has helped contribute to my education because I got to research topics but I also got to see how my interdisciplinary background will help me in the medical field. I was always nervous about graduating with an interdisciplinary major and I used to feel like no employer wouldn’t take it as a serious major. But this project has made me understand how important interdisciplinary is to my future and career which has helped my confidence for graduating with the degree I have chosen. For my research article I chose to write a meta-analysis on teenage vaping. To me this relates so well to my education. Medicine changes each day, new diseases and treatments are constantly being discovered and vaping was the perfect example. Vaping has been around for over a decade to help smokers quit, but has recently become a significant problem in America and is causing users to fall ill. Since this has become such a big problem, new studies have been trying to investigate and find out why this has all of a sudden been making users sick. It was a really interesting to me to research and find out what chemicals are in vaping products and what health risks come from them.
Together, my research article and applied project have taught me how to research well. I found several primary sources and was able to read, digest and understand the information from the academic journal articles I read. This skill is going to help me significantly in my career as a medical professional because research is a key skill. Finding research that is credible and also being able to understand the studies that were done is so important and these projects have helped me improve my researching and analysis skills.
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