academic affairs newsletter- may 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

1 Grand Rounds Newsletter

“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




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~




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~




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)

[email protected]

Mr. Callman (Jamaica)

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Dr. Gotto (Online)

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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.

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