Reflections from San Antonio

Today, I was in San Antonio for an interview at the medical school. During the course of our interview day, we had the chance to tour the facilities at the UT-San Antonio Health Science Center, including the institution's major academic buildings and main hospitals.

San Antonio is home to a very large Hispanic population, and we learned from the fourth year medical students that the most prevalent chronic disease amongst the patient population is diabetes. This reminded me of the San Jose Clinic, in which the patient and disease profiles is very similar to that of San Antonio's patient and disease profiles.

I am excited to be in my last week of medical schools interviews, and just that much closer to entering medical school, and receiving the training to become a competent physician. I thoroughly enjoy interacting with patients right now, as a pharmacy technician at the San Jose clinic and a volunteer at MD Anderson and Memorial Hermann. However, I hope to one day, not only be able to interact with these patients, but to also have the knowledge to be capable of finding solutions to their health problems!