Pharmacology 2021-2022 Blog

November hours: 2, total hours: 5 This month, I helped make thanksgiving holiday cards for the children's hospital along with many in the class. It had been a long time since I had made arts and crafts and it was a refreshing change. It was a busy month as we had our cardiovascular test as well as the renal pharmacology test. Following these two tests, we went home for the Thanksgiving break. From next week on, I will go back to volunteering at the food pantry.  The cardiovascular unit was highly interrelated with the previous ANS module. It was interesting learning about the acute and chronic treatments to arrhythmia as this is a problem we will start to face more often considering the advancements in health care allowing people to live longer. Treatment of heart failure and other cardiovascular issues such as Endocarditis will become more and more relevant with the progressively aging population.  The renal pharmacology unit was also interrelated with the cardiovascular unit...

October hours: 3, total hours: 3 I went to volunteer at the Broadmoor food pantry this month and thoroughly enjoyed my experience. I helped arrange and sort the food in bags for the people who may be food insecure. I also helped assist people as they were coming in with whatever they needed such as bringing the food bags to their cars. I also helped with the set up and take down of the food pantry. There were several experienced Tulane undergraduate students who were helping lead the volunteer program. I hope to continue volunteering at the Broadmoor food pantry and may explore different roles such as cooking in the kitchen.   The curriculum is also progressively picking up as we had our cardiovascular and ANS test which I believed to be more dense than our previous tests. It was interesting to learn about many of the cardiovascular drugs such as beta blockers as well as the cholinergic pharmacological drugs. In addition, this unit was more strongly related to current and form...

     Growing up in Sacramento, the only natural disasters I had experienced were relatively minor earthquakes. Earlier this year, I experienced the Texas power crisis in Dallas when the severe winter storms passed through our area. Our apartment was out of power for 4 days and without water for an additional 3 days after that. I learned many important lessons from that experience, however I thought I would never have to experience anything similar to that until I moved to New Orleans. Shortly before we were scheduled to take our first test from the introductory module, Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana as a category 4 hurricane. I filled up my bathtub to prepare for the Hurricane in case I lost water and stocked up on food and drinking water. I thought I would be mostly fine from the Hurricane because people had told me the area I lived in downtown did not lose power often. As fate would have it, the Hurricane makes an eastward shift to New Orleans and I lose power and water. B...