Concluding blog

Hello everyone and welcome back to my senior project blog. This will be my final blog post, as I’ll be wrapping up my entire senior project with this post.

Throughout, my ten-week journey at Maimonides Hospital I learned a tremendous amount. The research staff, other volunteers, patients, doctors, and nurses all helped me grow in a unique way that I’m thankful for. At the beginning of my internship, I was quite nervous to approach patients or doctors to ask about research. But slowly due to the kind research staff, self-confidence began to develop throughout the weeks. This taught me an important lesson: if you want something to be done, do it yourself. This lesson stuck with me through the remainder of my internship, and I can’t wait to apply it to my life outside of Maimonides Hospital.

In addition to that lesson, I was able to answer my research question: “How does clinical research work in a world-class care hospital, sitting in the middle of New York City and are there ways to get more patients to participate?” Volunteering at Maimonides for ten weeks, I adapted to the hospital setting and learned clinical research is very fast-paced and meticulous. For the second part, I realized convincing patients to participate was all about how we approached them. Using my approach (which I detailed in an earlier blog) is extremely effective and increases patient participation by a large margin. 

Thank you all for reading my blog every week and following my journey. I hope you all learned as much as I did.