Working In A Multicultural Environment

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This past summer, while employed at Perelman School of Medicine, I worked in a very diverse environment. Both my lab, the students in my program, as well as the other labs around of us had diverse ethnic backgrounds such as international students and people of Asian, African, Indian, and Arabic descent. While being in the minority was a new experience for me, I really enjoyed working and living in a multicultural environment. It is a humbling experience to truly understand how limited my individual scope of the world is and it made me much more receptive and considerate to the ideas of others. During my job as a CNA, I tried to approach each patient from where they were at and put myself in their shoes in order to understand what each patient