\u201cFollow your dream. Know what you want to do, and pursue it\u201d were the simple words of advice from dentist Ronnie D. Lee \u201976 for Clemson students at the third annual \u201cTigers on Call\u201d event on Sept. 22.
\nLee has been practicing dentistry in Aiken for nearly 30 years. He joined a cast of approximately 50 health care providers, many of whom were alumni from fields such as medicine, pharmacy, dentistry and physical therapy, in offering wisdom to current students interested in pursuing many of the same specialties.
\nA panel discussion, seminars, round-table sessions and informal conversations with providers gave students an opportunity to learn more about specific specialties and talk to health professionals about their lives and careers.
\nHazel Grace Hudson, a senior with a double major in food science\/human nutrition and anthropology, said the round table session was her favorite part of the event. \u201cWhen you\u2019re shadowing, you normally only ask questions about medicine, about what\u2019s going on in front of you, but this offers an opportunity to talk to physicians, to network and to ask questions about life in general,\u201d Hudson says. \u201cIt can help me learn, so hopefully I don\u2019t have as many failures in the future because I will have learned from theirs.\u201d
\nFor physician Lisa Carroll \u201904, participating in Tigers on Call gave her a chance to provide an experience for students that she would like to have had herself. \u201cWhen I was in these students\u2019 shoes, I had no idea what to do,\u201d says Carroll. \u201cI just kept going through the motions of what I thought I wanted, without actually knowing.\u201d
\nA physician in the family residency program at Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, Carroll chose her profession by sifting through library books. \u201cI remember one summer, when I was at Clemson I went to the library, and I looked up books in all the different health professions, checking them off the shelves \u2014 one on being a physician\u2019s assistant, one on being a nurse practitioner, one on being a medical doctor \u2014 to find out what those careers looked like, because I just didn\u2019t know,\u201d Carroll says. \u201cBut it\u2019s changed a lot since then. I doubt any students here today did that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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