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LO5-Demonstrate the skills and recognise the benefits of working collaboratively. Students are able to identify, demonstrate and critically discuss the benefits and challenges of collaboration gained through CAS experiences. |
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LO3-Initiative Planning & initiating activities. |
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LO2-Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process. Undertaken new challenges & developing new skills. |
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LO5 COLLABORATION – Working together to achieve an outcome. Students are able to identify, demonstrate and critically discuss the benefits and challenges of collaboration gained through CAS experiences. |
| LO1 AWARENESS – Identify their own strengths and develop areas for growth. Students are able to see themselves as individuals with various abilities and skills, of which some are more developed than others. |
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LO2 CHALLENGE – Undertaken new challenges & developing new skills. A new challenge may be an unfamiliar experience or an extension of an existing one. The newly acquired or developed skills may be shown through experiences that the student has not previously undertaken or through increased expertise in an established area. |
The Medical Society at school currently is being chaired by a group of great twelth graders. However, with the graduation approaching soon for the class of 2020, it’s time for new leadership. Having been a part of the Medical Society since grade nine, I felt that it would be a great opportunity for me to step up and assume the role of one of the chairs.
The International Baccalaureate is one of the world’s most challenging programmes. Before signing up and auditioning for the role of a leader in any activity, I always consider how much time I am able to dedicate and what value I can bring to the activity or service. However, with the Medical Society, it was an instant decision. Everyone who wanted to attempt to become chair, was instructed to write an anonymous paragraph explaining why others should vote for them. I thought that this exercise would also be a great idea for me to reflect on why I wanted to be chair. Below I wrote a paragraph that would be presented to the rest of the members, so that they could get to know me a little bit better and understand my vision for the club.
My Paragraph:
Growing up, the complexities of the human body constantly spurred my curiosity. As I progressed further into my education, my interest only grew. Getting involved with services like SunDac and ApexHarmony (working with mentally disabled and dementia patients), nurtured my passion for service to mankind.
Choosing to pursue medicine became a no brainer. I found the Medical Society during my IGCSE years. Prior to joining, I had been part of various activities related to science, but none intrigued me as much as Medical Society. Whether it was the thought provoking MMI questions, the gory videos of surgeries, the exciting games or sessions filled with nerve-wrecking advice about (how hard it is) getting into medical school, I found a community that shared my love for medicine. As a chair, I want to continue the traditions we’re all fond of, and create new ones.
Getting into medical school can seem daunting – especially when you are expected to know so much about things you don’t necessarily learn about in school: keeping up to date with new research, or deeper insight about public health systems of countries around the world. Perhaps you’re looking for shadowing opportunities? Or maybe you’re still uncertain about wanting to pursue medicine. I hope to create a space where you can acquire more indispensable knowledge, where your questions can be answered, and most importantly – where you can have fun. I hope to explore hands-on practicals, (looking more in depth at) tests like the UKAT, BMAT and MMI’s.
Furthermore, as a perfectionist, organization is one of my strengths. Using my skill, I hope to take into account all of your inputs on what you want to do in Medical Society each week. Don’t want to read long, soul-sucking, research papers / articles? We can watch new, thrilling and engaging documentaries like ‘Diagnosis’. It’s your choice. Because, ultimately each and every one of you add to who we are and what we hope achieve over here.
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LO3 INITIATIVE – Planning & initiating activities. Students can articulate the stages from conceiving an idea to executing a plan for a CAS experience or series of CAS experiences. This may be accomplished in collaboration with other participants. Students may show their knowledge and awareness by building on a previous experience, or by launching a new idea or process. |
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LO5 COLLABORATION – Working together to achieve an outcome. Students are able to identify, demonstrate and critically discuss the benefits and challenges of collaboration gained through CAS experiences. |
This year during the first two seasons of Medical Society, I found myself contributing a lot more towards the planning behind what we were doing during our sessions. A topic I thought that we had never broached was public health systems. No matter where we were going to be applying to medical school in the world – each and every one of us was going to have garner knowledge about the respective health systems of the countries where we wanted to study. This could be especially helpful during interviews for universities/colleges or when deciding which country we would want to practice in for the future.
We had not done anything new in some time, so I decided to approach the student leaders. I brought up the idea to the current chairs of the medical society, and listened respectfully to my proposal and were more than happy to comply. Together we brainstormed what the plan could look like. Eventually, we ended up conducting a whole session on this topic. The slideshow that was presented is linked below. We organised an activity in which we split up everyone into teams. Each team was assigned a different country, and had to research about that country’s public health systems: history, fun facts, etc. Then each group had the opportunity to present information they had researched to the rest of the group.
Whilst, we didn’t all become experts on the different public health systems, it was a great introduction to the basics. The activity was a gateway that encouraged each of us to further explore the health systems of countries that were specifically relevant to each of us. The session was a success, and I hope that we can conduct similar activities in the future.
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LO1 – Awareness Increased awareness of strengths and areas for growth. |
Initially having joined UWC, I took part in many different services: college, local and global included. I’ve been a part of
‘Circus in a Box’, ‘Gray Area’, ‘Green Umbrella’ and a couple more. During my ninth grade, there had been a complication, and some students hadn’t been allocated a service – including me. We were sent a spreadsheet with the few services that were willing to accept more students. I ended up first stumbling across the local service: ‘Fine Motor Skills Games & Lunch with Sun Dac’ over there. Unknowingly, I had found my calling. In the service, we worked with people with intellectual disabilities. Although I was initially intimidated with how hands-on and proactive this service was, I was soon planning and leading both socially inclusive activities and activities designed to help improve the client’s muscle coordination. I found myself looking forward to the service each week. It not only taught me meaningful lessons about interaction, but I am also thankful for the relationship I was able to build with clients.
Unfortunately, during my eleventh grade, I was no longer able to continue the service, because the timings had changed. However, I discovered another service called, ‘Music Therapy with Apex Harmony Lodge’, which I’m currently a part of today. This service provides us an opportunity to interact with dementia patients through musical engagement. This service provoked me to find out more about the scientific research behind this musical therapy and how it reduces stress and anxiety for dementia patients. As a service, this year we have been very excited to begin a project, where we donate ipods with personalized playlists for specific patients who have shown positive reactions to this music throughout our visits. On the other hand, something that my experiences have taught me about service that is real is that it is not always pretty – which makes it all the more worthwhile.
Some goals I wanted to outline:
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