Vinay 辛格 graduated from PSU-LV in 2020 but continues helping students as a tutor in the Learning Center.
宾州中央谷. — Vinay 辛格 graduated from 十大网赌靠谱网址平台 (PSU-LV) in 2020 but continues to make a major impact on students at the branch campus. 辛格, who is currently taking a gap year while applying to medical schools, returned to 利哈伊谷 to assist students as a tutor in the 2nd floor Learning Center.
“我完成了2+2项目, 所以我在PSU-LV待了两年, and the last two years at UP studying biology,辛格说。. “A few of my teachers freshman year recommended me to Linda [Rumfield, learning center coordinator] — that’s how I got into the learning center. 学术对我来说一直很重要. 我来到美国.S. 在我五六岁的时候从印度搬来的. I fell behind when I was trying to get caught up in my academics. 辅导真的让我走上了正轨.”
辛格 worked as an in-person tutor until two events changed his status, he said.
“After I went to University Park, that’s when COVID shifted everything online. I remained as an online tutor even after I went to University Park, 所以如果PSU-LV的学生需要帮助, Linda allowed me to continue tutoring online,他说.
He’s been tutoring continually for the last two years and was recently promoted from a peer tutor to a professional tutor. Besides tutoring, 辛格 has helped his peers out in other ways.
"I was also a note taker for students with disabilities. I worked with a student who had hearing difficulties — while she focused on her interpreter for the [classroom] lecture, 我帮她记笔记. To me it’s really important to make sure my peers have the help they need.”
辅导有立竿见影的效果, said 辛格: “It’s something I can see — I can see the students improving." 同样的, his work in the Learning Center helps him on his professional path.
“My end goal is to go into academic medicine, which means once I have completed my medical education and training, 我将作为一名医生工作, 为我的病人提供医疗服务, 等., also be training or educating medical students, hence the academic part. So sort of like a professor-physician hybrid,他说. “当我在医学院或实习时, the doctors that are teaching me and practicing with their own patients would be considered working in academic medicine. Education and academics have been common themes for me.”
Trust is a common trait 辛格说 he has identified in both his current and future professions.
“Physicians can’t always just figure out a diagnosis — they have to build trust with their patients, explain to them what’s wrong with their body, 确定一个治疗方案. The average patient may not know all of the medical jargon, 例如, so it’s up to the physician to explain it to them. Those communication skills come by building a rapport. The skills I’m acquiring now will help me communicate with my patients in the future. It’s important to give patients more autonomy — if they understand what’s happening with their bodies, they are more empowered to make the necessary changes.”
同样的, 辛格说, students who feel helpless or are falling behind in classes can find plenty of support at PSU-LV’s Learning Center. Tutors are on hand to help empower students not only understand, but master a subject.
“这对他们有益，而且是免费的. If there are any questions on course material or if a student is struggling, they can get help from students who have been in the same classes with the same professors,辛格说。.
The Learning Center offers tutoring in a wide range of subjects, including an expanded Writing Center supervised by Michelle Kaschak, 副教授, 英语. If a student is seeking help with a course that may not be readily available, 辛格鼓励学生们无论如何都要来, he said: “A student can always ask if a tutor in a certain subject is available. Linda is amazing and can probably find someone who can help.”
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