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Hridmita Hasan

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Hobbies & Interests

  • Painting and Studio Art
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Foreign Languages

Reading

  • Literary Fiction
  • Realistic Fiction
  • Magical Realism
  • Romance
  • Science Fiction
  • Adventure
  • Suspense

I read books multiple times a week.

Bio

Hi there! My name is Hridmita Hasan and I am currently a sophomore at Monmouth University as an Honors student on the B.S./M.D. track. I am currently a Biology Major with a concentration in Molecular Cell Physiology and a Chemistry Minor. All throughout high school. I found myself very passionate about the activism I did, strongly believing in the social justice causes of the community organizations that I joined. I found myself enjoying the rich culture of the Spanish language as I studied it each year. I found myself enjoying leisurely writing as I wrote for school publications. And soon I realized that it wasn't impossible, that STEM and the arts actually go hand in hand. As I embark on the start of my pre-medical undergrad career, I will integrate all my passions to become the most sincere version of the best figure of healing and service that I aspire to be!

Education

Monmouth University

Bachelor's degree program

2022 – 2026

Majors:
  • Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other
Minors:
  • Chemistry

Hunter College High School

High School

2019 – 2022

Miscellaneous

Desired degree level:
Doctoral degree program (PhD, MD, JD, etc.)
Majors of interest:
Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other, Medicine, Neurobiology and Neurosciences, Medical Clinical Sciences/Graduate Medical Studies, Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Medical Systems, General
Medical school interest:
Yes

Career

  • Shadowing Intern

    Hospital & Health Care · Maimonides Health Center

    Jan 2023 – Present

  • Lenox Hill Neurosurgery BRAINterns Program Participant/Intern

    Hospital & Health Care · Lenox Hill Hospital Neurosurgery Department

    Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

  • Clinical Shadower

    Medicine · HEAL Clinical Education Network

    Jan 2021 – Present

  • Senior Editor

    Scientific Journalism · The Precipe

    Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

  • Co-Founder/Co-EIC

    Music · Harmony World Magazine

    Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

  • Nursing/Concierge Support Staff

    Hospital & Health Care · Fairview Nursing Care Center

    Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

  • Youth Power Intern

    Civic & Social Organization · Desis Rising Up and Moving

    Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

  • Asian Youth in Action Intern

    Civic & Social Organization · Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence

    Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

  • Youth Organization Intern

    Civic & Social Organization · New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault

    Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

Miscellaneous

Dream career field:
Medical Practice
Has nursing license:
No

Future Interests

  • Advocacy
  • Volunteering
Ruebenna Greenfield Flack Scholarship
From a young age, I always knew that I wanted to study medicine. While the actual profession would change weekly as I stuffed pennies inside my IKEA polar bear and tried to procure them with a pair of skinny Crayola markers behaving as forceps or project my problems onto my three-foot Dora and pretend they were hers to offer her advice, I just knew that I wanted to help as much as a seven-year-old could know. As a young Bengali Muslim growing up in the rich prosperous hub of New York City whose parents immigrated here from Bangladesh, a third-world country, I have been presented with two strikingly divergent realities. On one hand, I see the suffering of my people as they attempt to thrive in brutal conditions of overpopulation, frequent natural disasters, and poverty where the gap between the rich and the poor adversely widens. On the other hand, in my concrete jungle of flashing lights and skyscrapers, while income may set families apart, I see a multitude of city programs and resources that actively try to remedy this. And while my darling city offers resources for all types of people from all types of backgrounds who span the gamut of income levels, the quality of these resources greatly varies. The healthcare disparity continues to grow each day as racial and ethnic minorities receive lower-quality healthcare than their white counterparts—even when insurance status, income, age, and severity of conditions are comparable. As a young Muslim woman of color, these inequity trends hit close to home, especially after the last pandemic year. Too often are Black and Brown women not taken seriously for the pain they are experiencing. Too often were communities of color overlooked and not provided proper resources during the pandemic. My experiences working at the Fairview Nursing Care Center and volunteering at New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital over the last couple of months have been especially formative in my desire to pursue medicine. I have always loved being surrounded by people. Making my daily rounds at Fairview and developing close relationships with my residents and learning about their individual cases helped me put so much of the learning I did through weekly HEAL Clinical Shadowing lessons into good use. As I developed closer relationships with my patients and even became their friends, I truly began to understand the power of primary care: both the unique relationship it allows you to build with your patient and how it allows you to offer quality care at a greater capacity. I wish to not only to be the person passively cheering on a patient but to be someone with the ability to actively help. In the hospital, a place where the elusiveness of life is manifest, I aspire to be someone who can provide knowledge and comfort to patients. The world of medicine is constantly evolving-- there is always more to learn and we must do our best to integrate new knowledge and research into our existing lexicon as openly and quickly as possible especially when considering the exponentially diverse and unprecedented future to come. Never is a patient going to present with the same exact set of symptoms even while having the same diagnosis as another patient you may treat, that way, your job as a physician/doctor is like detective work; you have some pieces and now it is your job to utilize differential diagnosis and out the puzzle together and make out the bigger picture.
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