ACEMS Case Study

.Why do you want to join ACEMS? How do you think participating in the EMT course and running on ACEMS will benefit you (personal development, career goals, etc.)?

Medical school has always been an implied next step ever since I was young. In third grade, I compiled illnesses from books, documenting symptoms and descriptions in a journal. However, through all my interactions with health, shadowing and volunteering at hospitals, medicine only seemed an abstraction.
Last year, I saw a friend fall and hit her head so hard she started seizing. In that moment, I felt so powerless. Like all my years of school and living amounted to nothing if I couldn’t do anything for my friend.
But as I watched ACEMS members leap into action, I was overcome with
Do something, anything, to help them – whether a friend, classmate, or community member. EMT training will prepare me to care for others in the future, as I hope to become a general practitioner at a clinic. Much like ACEMS does at Amherst, I want to treat community members from all walks of life. Participating in ACEMS will allow me that chance to help people sooner than later.

2.List what other extracurricular activities you are involved in (work study, student organizations, sports teams, on- or off-campus jobs.) How many hours do you spend on each activity per
Not for the material itself, but the students. Breakthroughs are the best part, but the process – the back-and-forth and mutual learning is why I keep coming back.
I’ve been fortunate to tutor all through high school and participate in Math 121 peer tutoring, Chemistry lab teacher’s assistant, and the Ed Pros fellowship. From these experiences, I’ve grown as a communicator, learning how to transfer ideas and intuit when my words aren’t connecting. I’ve realized that patience and mutual respect are essential. And that through staying open minded, you can discover many valid ways to approach a problem and learn so much from your peers. Now, when approaching any difficult situation, especially when discussing difficult material, I listen, seek clarification, and empathize.
While shadowing physicians as well as assisting nurses as a hospital volunteer in high school, I realized many important commonalities between teaching and medicine. Teachers and ACEMS members see their patients in a vulnerable state, and it is their job to affirm and support them by asking how to help. Calmness and confidence in their role is essential and both necessitate adapting to human differences. In my experience in both roles, I’ve had to embrace ambiguity while questioning get to the bottom of a