I have so many emotions and thoughts about my time at AOMA. I could talk about all different aspects of it but I'll stick to the idea of professionalism. I feel I started off in the clinic with a bit of an advantage, I used to be in the service industry. This afforded me a level of comfort and ease in dealing with patients, supervisors and other interns. Though I had this great foundation to start off with, being a waitress and being a health care provider involve very different relationships with your patrons. Watching other student interns interact with patients was probably the most educational in learning about patient-practitioner relations.
The other way in which I grew my professionalism was during my time with the ASA. Learning from someone like Tara was such a special gift. She showed me how to work in a community with so many complex and ever changing relationships and somehow stay on every one's good side. I don't know if I've reached her level of success in doing this yet, but I always think of her as a guide.
My other great lesson came from being the president of the ASA. Having a cabinet full of good people who struggled to get along, failed, succeeded and struggled some more was a great challenge. Having to supervise, delegate, mediate, support and discipline was hard at times, but overall felt satisfying and strengthening.
I could go on even more, but I also greatly respect and admire you, Lesley, and know how hard you work, so I'll leave it at that!
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