Julia Proctor Honors 100 28 October 2013 Assignment 3 Experiential Learning Opportunities When Yoshi and I talked, he specified

that he was planning on majoring in Bioengineering, and was actually already admitted to the department. He is pursuing a career as a doctor, and would like to be a part of doctors without borders. He also like outdoor activities such as mountaineering, indoor activities like board games, likes playing guitar and piano, and is passionate about service/volunteering. Based on these interests, he could get involved in research with either the bioengineering department or the medical departments. Many opportunities can be found on the Undergraduate Research program found at: http://webapps.ued.washington.edu/opportunities/Opportunities.aspx or look at professors pages on department websites. He said he was interested in tissue engineering and point-of-care, so I look at descriptions for a couple of more specific opportunities listed on the database and found: Kim lab (http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/Kim), Zheng lab (http://faculty.washington.edu/yingzy/), Zhang lab (http://faculty.washington.edu/mzhang/), Yager lab (http://faculty.washington.edu/yagerp/pyresearchcurrent.html), For medicine, there are a lot of RSOs that he can get involved in. There is AED (Alpha Epsilon Delta) which is a pre-med honors society that talks about different opportunities on campus that are medically-related. They also hold a lot of panels of physicians, medical students, etc. to help understand what a future career might look like. There is another club called AMSA (American Medical Student Association), which is a really cool club that has more hands-on experience. Last year they had a dentist come in and show a video of a surgery he did and explain different aspects/answer questions people had. They also held a suture clinic, which was pretty awesome. MAPS (Minority Associated Pre-Medical Students), is more focused on minority students in medicine, but I dont think they are exclusive. HCASB (Health Care Alternative Spring Break) is a club that organizes trips to shadow doctors in rural areas during spring break. Hand2Hand is a volunteer/service club with a medical focus. Tribeta is a biology club, but I think the 180/200/220 series must have been completed before becoming an official member. They hold tutoring sessions that a lot of students attend for extra practice. There was also a wilderness medicine interest group last year discussed wilderness medicine practices. The list goes on, look at: http://depts.washington.edu/sao/rso-directory/. Also in RSOS, there is a Climbing Club at UW for your interest in mountaineering. There are also various hiking clubs and many other outdoor clubs, such as kayak club, scuba diving club, ski club, etc. This is not necessarily related to the UW, but since Yoshi expressed an interest in becoming a member of Doctors without Borders, there is an internship program for undergraduates that he could participate in and potentially earn ad-hoc credits. http://www.projects-abroad.org/doctors-withoutborders-alternative/. In terms of volunteering or service opportunities, there are TONS. You can do pipeline project, Dream Project, Jumpstart, etc. I also found that if you join lots of mailing lists, its a good way to know

about what is going on and various volunteer opportunities different clubs or organizations are holding. I think the most important mailing list to join is your majors department. They usually send out lots of important information regarding opportunities related to the field that its students might find intriguing. There are honors study abroad options, if you wanted to do a summer program to help you get some honors requirements out of the way. Its hard with honors requirements and all of the premed/bioengineering requirements to find time to do other stuff. Also, if being productive is a concern or obstacle in doing a study abroad, consider going through IE3, which finds internships around the world in various fields. You can gain professional experience, while earning UW credits, and exploring a foreign country. SUPER AWESOME!