Timothy Bunales
Heyfa Kheniss
Tom Miller
Timothy Bunales
Description of Project:
- shadowed Dr. Silverio Cabellon Jr. (a vascular surgeon) of Washington Hospital Center in DC
- Mainly observed procedures such as arteriograms, amputations, bypass surgery, angioplasty...
- Interacted with the patients one on one
- goal was to familarize himself in the best possible manner how a vascular surgeon goes about his day in the hospital.
- activities done --> observing and shadowing
- goal --> familiarize self with hospital environment and doctor procedures
- results --> learned a great deal how the microcosm is run
What were the main benefits you received from doing the project?:
- Learned how doctors interact with nurses and assistants and patients. realized how well coordinated the team is to efficiently carry out a procedure. Learned how it is also very emotional in the sense that if a patient dies, he has built a connection with them and loses that person. Quite different from TV shows where each death is overly dramatic.
- intellectual --> nothing to advance his booksmarts, but learned how doctors run the show and how they interact w/ nurses and patients.
- personal growth --> added more fuel to his fire to become a doctor
What were the main pitfalls or obstacles during the development and/or undertaking
of the project?:
- Mistaken as son several times, which was actually a blessing in disguise since the patients spoke with him very openly
nothing particulary hurt him.
Email address: tbunales@umd.edu
Affiliation: Earth, Life, and Time; Chemistry Major
Title of Project: A Day in the Life of a Vascular Surgeon