Spotlights: Fall 2015

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Name: Maddie Goldfarb
Major: BS Psychology
HCMP Role: Preceptor Coordinator
Classification: Senior
Other Associations: Alpha Epsilon Phi, Liberal Arts Honor’s Society

Describe a shadowing experience that has impacted you the most:
During a pediatric neuro-oncology clinic, Dr. George was the first physician that I’ve shadowed to tell me how wonderful and fulfilling the rest of my life is going to be. Hearing doctors who truly love what they do makes this long journey feel like it will all be worth it.

How has HCMP benefited your professional or individual goals? I’ve become a lot more outgoing socially. I have learned how to interact with adults on an adult-to-adult level.

What has been your favorite aspect of HCMP? The friendships I’ve made. Our organizations is filled with people of all different backgrounds, colors, shapes, and grades. I would never guess that the diversity in our group would be in the same room together, but our personalities blend to form such a beautiful dynamic.

What do you like to do in your free time?
Yoga, cook and try fun Austin restaurants, listen to live music, read, spend time outside in the beautiful Austin weather.

Overview

Who Are We?

Our History

The Health Careers Mentorship Program is modeled after Duke University’s Health Careers Exploration Program and was co-founded in 1997 by two students at the University of Texas at Austin while they were volunteering at Children’s Hospital of Austin. Based on their positive experiences through volunteering, they worked with other students of similar thinking in developing a program where interested students as interns could shadow physicians during their daily routines for one semester and run the program the following semester as a coordinator. Since 1997, the program has grown in the number of preceptors and rotations. We, as a student-run and student-led organization, are committed to growing to accommodate the influx of student interest and need for health professionals by providing opportunities we feel is beneficial in the decision-making process of future practitioners and leaders.