- Describe your involvement with this organization
- I am a student researcher at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in the Neuromuscular Physical Therapy Outpatient Clinic. I assist other therapists in therapy sessions, data collection and organization, and video recording. We work with children with various neuromuscular disorders. We also visit near by schools to collect control data for various studies. I have been volunteering there for the past year and I hope to volunteer there until I graduate.
- Describe what you gained as a result of this experience.
- I have gained a sufficient amount of knowledge on what research in Physical Therapy is like and what you can do with it. I have also learned a lot about SMA type 1 and Muscular Dystrophy. I have learned to think on my feet and I have become a more confident and organized individual.
- Describe positive changes to the community as a result of your service experience.
- By assisting in multiple research studies involving neuromuscular disorders such as SMA and Muscular Dystrophy in children I will be helping children and their families with these disorders.
- Describe a person with whom you interacted that made a strong impression on you, positive or negative.
- I work along four different Physical Therapists, Dr. Linda, Lowes, Dr. Katherine Berry, Dr. Natalie Miller, and Dr. Lindsay Alfano. Each one of them have been so kind and helpful to me. They are all truly inspiring women and I hope that I can be a great Physical Therapist like them some day. It is truly helpful to have great mentors to help me through undergrad and eventually to apply to Physical Therapy School.
- Complete the following sentence: “Because of this service experience, I am__________”
- Because of this service experience, I am more confident in my goal of becoming a physical therapist and drive to either work with children or the brain injured population. I have learned that I adapt well to new teaching and I am able to accomplish various tasks in timely manner, even if the processes to do so is unfamiliar with me.