Ajani Khalfani, asenior biology major, completed an internship at GBMC this summer to fulfill her senior capstone hours. With the help of one of her professors here at Stevenson, Ms. Carol Schmidhouser, Ajani secured the internship in the general surgery department with the Finney Trimble Surgical Associates Team. She was able to observe many surgeries in the general operating room ranging from hernia repairs, to appendectomies, a cholecystectomy, a thyroidectomy, and even some plastic surgery procedures. Ajani additionally was able to observe several deliveries in the Labor and Delivery Suite (both vaginal and C-section), as well as shadow residents in the GYN Oncology Suite. Some of the duties she performed during her internship included answering and making phone calls from the operating room when the nurse was occupied and turning over the operating room for the next patient. Ajani says that her favorite part of her experience was being in the Labor and Delivery Suite, because she is working towards becoming an obstetrician, and this internship offered her the opportunity to see firsthand what obstetricians do and the environment in which they work. The picture above shows Ajani at the hospital dancing in a video submission for the Medline Pink Glove Dance Contest, which raises money for breast cancer. GBMC took first place in the competition, winning $10,000 for a local breast cancer organization. Great job Ajani!
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