Serving My Community and Preparing for My Career Through KGI's MSCM Program
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My name is Adriana veronese Cordova and I am very blessed to be part of K. G. I. S. Inaugural cohort of the master of Science and community medicine program. I grew up in pomona about 10 minutes away from campus. I am a proud product of the pomona Unified School district. I graduated from Ganesha High School in 2007, so go giants. Um and shortly after I met uh nonprofit called the Bright prospects Scholar support Program. They support students uh to get into college but also to um be successful and complete the four years of the undergraduate program. They helped me venture out to Yale University in new haven Connecticut. So a complete change for me but a very positive one. I had a really great experience there, majored in biology and I finished my pre medical requirements. Um, shortly after I realized I really needed to start working and help provide for my family. My parents are immigrants from Guanajuato Mexico and I just really needed to help them for a while while doing that. I continue to build my application for medical school and just become a stronger applicant. Um, and that's how I found out about the K G I M ECM program. K G I. S. M ECM program really speaks to me because I'm passionate about the health of my community. I grew up translating for my mom every time she needed to go to the doctor, she only speaks spanish, I grew up translating for my neighbors who would come to my house and asked me to translate the dosage information on their medication just last week. Um, my mom's pharmacist changed the brand of her medication and she was really confused. So I had to face time her and kind of helped her figure it out. Um, I've also seen the way that patients react to someone who speaks their language and looks like them. As a volunteer at pomona Valley Hospital and Medical Center. I volunteer in their emergency department and help patients just communicate with nurses and physicians. I can tell it makes a really big difference when someone who is from their community is able to help them bridge that gap. Um Kay J program is teaching us things like the social determinants of health, which are things like uh socio economic status, um living situations, the location where somebody lives and how that has an impact on their health, um how these things affect overall health in in the community. I know that this program is teaching me about ways that I can be a more well rounded healthcare professional.