academic affairs newsletter- may 2012
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Our second issue of our Academic Affairs Newsletter discusses several student achievements consisting of, the Internship Ascension Ceremony, newly certified MA Students and much more. It also covers study tips, how to overcome obstacles and words of wisdom to our students.TRANSCRIPT
Grand Rounds: are an important teaching tool and ritual of medical education. Presenting the medical problems and treatment of patients to an audience
consisting of doctors, residents, and medical students
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“In its broadest sense, learning can be defined as a process of progressive change from ignorance to knowledge, from inability to competence, and from indifference to understanding …” Cameron
Fincher
In This Issue
Internship Ascension (p.1)
Newly Certified MA Students
(p.2)
Overcoming Obstacles (p. 3)
Study Skills (p. 5)
Teacher Tips
“Read the questions carefully. If you understand the question, the answer is simple.”
-Jose Noel
Tips:
Manage your time wisely.
Always give your best. No one can ask for more.
Your actions should not
betray your words.
Brooklyn Students speak on
… Why it is important
for me to be an MA?
“To help other people as I would
help my own family”
-Kevin D. Cooper
“I believe it is important to make
ill people feel better in their time
of ailments”
-Ginet Medrano
“I want to provide efficient
quality care to help set the
standard”
-Shanise Baker
“Helping people is who I am and I
want to make a difference in the
world one step at a time”
-Jaclyn Santana
“Being an MA is the first step in
reaching my final goal which is to
be an RN”
-Jacquelin Rivera
“Becoming an MA will allow me
to perform better skills on
patients”
-Dimarie Semprit
“Being a people person, it is
important to me to try something
new, care for patients, and gain
the respect of the medical field”
-Carol Mosley
Hardy congratulations—Forty three
(43) fifth module students are now
going on their internship. Internship
is where the classroom practice
meets the real world.
Issue Number: 02 Institutional Edition May 2012
Brooklyn Internship Ascension
Ceremony
March 15-16, 2012
Grand Rounds: are an important teaching tool and ritual of medical education. Presenting the medical problems and treatment of patients to an audience
consisting of doctors, residents, and medical students
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4/23/12 Class - Stethoscope Presentation
during Orientation
Congratulations to Newly Certified
Jamaica Students
Omar Laurence – Certified Medical Assistant
Angela Allen – Certified Phlebotomy
Technician
Lucy Castillo - Certified Phlebotomy
Technician
Andrea Hiralall - Certified Phlebotomy
Technician
Petra Joseph - Certified Phlebotomy
Technician
Karris Malcolm - Certified Phlebotomy
Technician
Overcoming obstacles
"Conquering any difficulty always gives one
a secret joy, for it means pushing back a
boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."
~Henri Frederic Amiel~
"Wanting something is not enough. You
must hunger for it. Your motivation must be
absolutely compelling in order to overcome
the obstacles that will invariably come your
way."
~Les Brown~
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence
by every experience in which you really stop
to look fear in the face. You are able to say
to yourself, "I have lived through this horror.
I can take the next thing that comes along." .
. . You must do the thing you think you
cannot do."
~Eleanor Roosevelt~
"If you are not criticized, you may not be
doing much."
~Donald H. Rumsfeld~
Grand Rounds: are an important teaching tool and ritual of medical education. Presenting the medical problems and treatment of patients to an audience
consisting of doctors, residents, and medical students
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Allen School Institutional EDUCATE Core Values
E ducation Quality & Integrity
D edication
U nderstanding of Others
C ommunication & Consistency
A dvisement & Achievement
T eamwork & Technology
E xcellence
Overcoming obstacles
"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who
points out how the strong man stumbled, or
where the doer of deeds could have done them
better. The credit belongs to the man who is
actually in the arena, whose face is marred by
dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again; who
knows great enthusiasms, great devotions; who
spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the
best, knows in the end the triumph of high
achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at
least fails while daring greatly, so that his place
shall never be with those timid souls who know
neither victory nor defeat."
~Theodore Roosevelt~
“Nature endows us with many instruments
through which we may learn: eyes, ears, noses,
taste and touch. But she gave only a simple
instrument by which we may teach, namely the
faculty of speaking. She has certainly warned us
that we should use the service of learning more
often than the office of teaching, in the same
measure as she has provided more instruments
for learning than teaching. Therefore, no man
who is verbose and talkative can be wise, for he
has always taught but never learnt.”
~Marsilio Ficino~
Grand Rounds: are an important teaching tool and ritual of medical education. Presenting the medical problems and treatment of patients to an audience
consisting of doctors, residents, and medical students
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From the 10/24/11 MAE Jamaica Students …
To All Allen School Students:
You have to follow your passion. You have to
figure out what it is you love, who you really
are, and have the courage to do just that. I
believe that the only courage anyone will ever
need is the courage to follow their own dreams.
There is no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears
bear witness that a man has the greatest
courage—the courage to suffer. All of our
dreams can come true, if we have the courage to
pursue them. If you lose hope, somehow you
lose the vitality that keeps life moving. You lose
that courage to be, that quality that helps you go
on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a
dream because I endured it to the end.
Despite some challenges, we have worked
together and we made it to the end with great
success. We are grateful to all our teachers, even
though we had our ups and downs. You put up
with our class through these six months even
when we had some bad attitudes.
Indeed the Allen School gave us steeping stones
towards our lifelong careers. As we go on our
internship, we will put all that we were taught
into practice and make ourselves, as well as our
teachers, PROUD.
JAMAICA CAMPUS ASCENSION
CEREMONY
PRESENTED BY THE MAE 5th
MODULE
STUDENTS OF THE JAMAICA CAMPUS
Upcoming Stories
So you like healthcare…
So you like helping people…
So you’re an MA, MIBC, or NA student…
Our news letter is looking a few good authors. Have an idea for a story? Want to discuss a current
issue? Send your story to one of the contacts below: Ms. Bingham (Brooklyn)
Mr. Callman (Jamaica)
Dr. Gotto (Online)
Grand Rounds: are an important teaching tool and ritual of medical education. Presenting the medical problems and treatment of patients to an audience
consisting of doctors, residents, and medical students
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By Dr. Gotto
In each edition of the newsletter we will focus on one type of
study skill that will increase your ability to succeed in class.
Today’s topic is
Where do you do most of your studying … At the
kitchen table? In your bedroom? On the couch? Let’s see
how the location where we study affects our learning.
Everyone needs their own space where they can get their work
done. This may have to be away from your home. Consider
the following places:
In the home—Look for a distraction free environment that
you can treat as your ‘office.’ You may have to make this
room off-limits to family members during certain periods.
Away from home—You could visit the library or coffee
shop. This may work well for people with very busy
homes. It could also be an alternative setting in case you
lose power or an internet connection at home.
Now that you have found a location, determine how you can
make the most of it. Schedule a specific time each day that
you will visit your ‘office’. When making your schedule,
think about the time of day when you are most alert and
productive. While you want to be comfortable in your
‘office’, make sure it is not so relaxing that you fall asleep! If
so, maybe a kitchen chair would be better for you than a
recliner. Your ‘office’ should be reasonably quiet, but does
not have to be completely silent. If you do choose background
music, try to find music without lyrics, which will be less
distracting. Make sure you also have adequate lighting. Poor
lighting may result in a headache and/or make you feel tired.
As soon as you enter your ‘office’, make a to-do list for your
study session. What assignments are due next? What material
will be on the next quiz? What topics am I having trouble
with in this unit? These are the types of questions you should
be asking yourself when making your to-do list. After a while
your mind may start to wander. This is the time to stand up
and take a break! Grab a healthy snack for some extra brain
energy, like fruit or nuts.
Realize there is not one type of environment that works best
for everyone. Your own learning style and toleration of
distractions may be different than your classmates. Look for
the next edition to our Study Skills series. Our next topic will
be BALANCING SCHOOL WORK WITH FAMILY,
FRIENDS, AND WORK.
Hi all, my name is Pam Ison. I am in my final week
at Allen School, for Medical Billing & Coding. I can
remember how excited I was to be starting school,
and how I looked forward to becoming a coder.
Then my books arrived ... EEK! They were HUGE!
And it was all so new to me. I thought I could never
learn all this - never make it. However, the
curriculum is perfectly geared toward preparing us
not only for the certification exam, but also for
finding a job in the field (specifically, the Career
Development class). The teachers here at Allen
School are truly wonderful. They know their
material, and encouraged us all the way through.
They give of their free time to offer Extra Practice
Sessions and even tutoring if we wanted or needed
it. It was a bit intimidating to be taking a
compressed program, but in the end it actually
worked out better for me. I can't imagine having
taken this program at a ground campus - with this
program it stays fresh in your mind. Even though
I'm not even finished with school yet (just 2 days to
go!), I've taken and passed the CPC exam. I couldn't
have done it without Allen School. They TOTALLY
prepared me! I can't thank them enough.