Evangeline Premachandran

• Adapted teaching methods and materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Teach 121 lessons with a few students every week
• Was able to communicate efficiently with the parents in ensuring that the child was gaining the most support
• Taught during covid on zoom
• Worked collaboratively with other teachers in making sure we could provide the best education for the students.

As a Pharmacy Intern at Grove Park Pharmacy, I gained hands-on experience in a community pharmacy setting, working closely with pharmacists and healthcare professionals. My responsibilities included assisting with daily pharmacy operations, such as dispensing medications, managing inventory, and providing customer service to ensure patients received accurate and timely information about their prescriptions.

I also supported the team in preparing medications, labeling, and verifying prescriptions under the supervision of licensed pharmacists. Through this role, I developed a strong understanding of the importance of accuracy, attention to detail, and patient confidentiality in pharmaceutical care.

• We were able to foster engagement with primary school children , as well as eldery people through art.
• Art in the community enables me build my social skills and also get out of my comfort zone by meeting new groups of people every week.
• I am able to feel more connected to the people in my community
• In art in the community, we are able to collaborate effectively with each other , because each week, we have to prepare the activities for the primary school children and for the hospice.
• I am also able to create a positive environment for the elderly end of care, patients, as well as the primary school children

• Supported nurses and HCAs by monitoring and reviewing volunteer activities and giving guidance.
• interacting with patients, in order to give the best quality care
• assisted in mealtime prep, gaining knowledge and understanding of proper food handling, storage and hygiene practices
• paid attention to demonstrate rapport with patients - respecting the patients, especially with those who may be anxious, frustrated or in pain. Learning how to acknowledge the patient's feelings and emotions without judgement.

Observing and shadowing healthcare professionals such as the doctors and the nurses was very interesting. I learnt the important of effective verbal and written communication skills, as seen between the patients and the colleagues. I also learnt some basic clinical skills such as medical histories and how doctors, in a short span of 10 minutes, can conduct physical examinations.

• Enthusiastically addressed and overcame work challenges.
• Followed management orders and consistently completed assignments.

• Had the ability to delivered excellent service, greeting the students warmly, and educating them on the crisis that is occurring in Pakistan.
• We made Samosa’s and sold them in school, in hope to raise money and help the South Asian community in Pakistan.
• We are also able to collaborate as a team when organising the charity. We all had individual jobs, planning and making sure the event went smoothly.

• I think this internship was overall really good because I was able to learn a new aspect of medicine - specifically the behaviors of teenagers, who suffer from perfectionism.

• I think this course was perfect as I was able to learn and relate to the things in modern day like.

• I was able to work and collaborate with a group talented teenagers, who also were able to reflect upon the topic that was being taught to us. I was able to incorporate some new skills, such as communication, as we had to do tasks with specific individuals in breakout rooms.

• I really liked the use of independent reading as well. The research paper was so fun to do, as we were all able to collaborate together and work as a team to produce something amazing.

• I particularly enjoyed making the survey, as we were taught the official rules in making professional surveys. I liked distributing them and analyzing the data that we had collected

I really liked the OSO medical course as it was able to teach me how to work in a group.

• We manage to work together as a team to make a presentation and discuss the key issues in pneumonia.
• We were also able to use everything in the last two weeks to have the opportunity to actually talk to a real-life patient - I had the opportunity to take a history taking off a patient who had depression. This allowed me to have effective communication skills, which included reading, writing, listening and speaking.
• I also had to approach the patient in a way that was respectable, whilst showing compassion and empathy for the patient. In addition to this, the course allowed me to research beyond the depths, of whether euthanasia should be legalised in the UK.
• This allowed to me have some more insight into the topic and the ability to deal with uncertainty as euthanasia is such a sensitive topic.