Day in the Life of a USAHS Student, Miami Campus

Day in the Life of a USAHS Student, Miami Campus

[00:00:00] Arantxa (Annie) J. (PT Student): Good morning, everyone. My name is Arantxa Jovellanos, or Annie, if that’s easier. I am a DPT student at the Miami campus, and I’m in my fourth term. And, I’d just like for you guys to join me in the day in the life here in Miami. I like that campus is right across the street. I love the view, for one. I love the, the palm trees and all the greenery. I feel like I’m, feeling like I’m somewhere tropical, but also feeling like I’m somewhere that’s safe and, and nice.

[00:00:46] All right. Time for the gym. So as you can see, I live here in Coral Gables. I mean, look how pretty it is here. The buildings are, I know they’re historic.

[00:00:57] That’s what I like about Miami, is that, I can be serious, I can go to school, I can get my work done, but then there’s so much to do here. The nightlife is as amazing as everyone makes it out to be. It’s, there’s… I’ve lived here for a year and I feel like I haven’t even touched what the city has to offer.

[00:01:19] They have yoga, barre, TRX, boxing, cycling, everything. All right. Let’s go to class. Well, I’m done, done showering, done with the gym. So it’s pretty productive day so far. Let’s pick out what I’m going to wear. So today I’m in lab, which means I’m going to wear scrubs. Do you guys think black, green, blue? Yeah, I was thinking black too. A lot of students live in this building right here. This is Puerta de las Palmas.

[00:02:03] So a few, I know a few students that live there, and a few other instructors too. Coral Gables is known as the City Beautiful, and, it’s just kind of a really nice walk too every morning. Our campus happens to be at the Douglas entrance.

[00:02:30] This is who I was looking for, Dr. Salmon.

[00:02:32] Hello. Hello.

[00:02:33] So we’re getting ready for patient care management two. So I’m the therapist, and this is my patient, Chris. He’s simulating a patient, and what we’re doing now is, basically my patient has suffered from two gunshot wounds, and one of the bullets is still lodged in, near his thoracic spine. And so my job today is to basically, get him moving in bed, get him walking and ambulating. Basically simulating exactly what we would be doing in an acute care setting with physical therapy.

[00:03:08] We’re just done with this portion of our lab, and we’re going to go downstairs, and we’re going to go into the, simulation lab where one lucky soul will play the therapist, and, I think our instructor’s going to play the patient, and the whole class gets to watch. And what’s cool about this, this lab is that it’s a, it’s a two-way mirror, so the therapist and the patient can’t see out, but everyone can see in, just pretty much simulating what it would be like in real life, and everyone gets to pretty much learn from that experience. So yeah, here we go.

[00:04:08] Feels like family over here. I can… I mean, we spend all day literally studying. We’ll go eat together. We’ll practice together. We’ll hopefully, weather permitting, be able to play some volleyball together.

[00:04:23] Behind me you can see the screen, and what’s going on is, we are tuning into a simulation lab that’s just down the hall, and everyone in here is going to tune in, one of my classmates as a therapist.

[00:04:38] One of my favorite parts of campus is this right here, the Center for Innovative Clinical Practice, and you’ll see that it simulates pretty much like a real inpatient ward in a hospital.

[00:04:53] Okay, so we’re going to go into the library. I’ll walk around a little bit so you can kind of see what that’s like.

[00:05:12] We’re going to walk back to my place. I’m going to drive us to, I believe it’s called K Sushi, is what we decided on. Just so that way we can, you know, take a little break, get away from school, take our mind off of studying, and get some nourishment. So that way we can come back, maybe study a little bit more.

[00:05:33] Cheers. Ready to dig in.

[00:05:34] We got Mo and Optin here. Yeah. Hi. All right, Mo, tell us about yourself. What term are you? Program? Where are you from?

[00:05:43] I’m from Detroit, Michigan, and I am in the fourth term for the DPT program.

[00:05:49] Nice.

[00:05:49] My name’s Optin Mari. I am also in fourth term. I’m out here in Miami from Huntington Beach, California.

[00:05:55] To this… We like going to this restaurant because it’s here in really pretty Heralda Plaza. We got Cequoia Taco, The Local. There’s always people here. There’s always something happening. Woo, okay. Well, we just got done with sushi. Oh. Pretty full.

[00:06:14] Yes, sir.

[00:06:16] I know they’re going to head back to campus to study.

[00:06:19] I want to study at home. I’ll probably give, take Kingsley on a walk before the volleyball game. But I just wanted to talk about, why I moved to Miami. I don’t know, I felt like it was a time in my life where I wanted to make my own life. I had been living with my parents up until then, and I just wanted to have my career start as an independent person, and it was a really scary decision.

[00:06:49] And ev- but ever since I made that decision, I feel like it was the best thing I’ve ever done, and I don’t regret it at all. Think of Miami, you think of party, but the, for some reason, in Coral Gables, it’s very serious. It’s very, it’s homey, it’s calm, it’s quiet, it’s safe, and it’s super clean, and it’s really pretty.

[00:07:11] I’m going to do some studying while I’m home. Got my voiceover PowerPoint.

[00:07:16] Have my iPad. Can write directly on my notes… and tune in on a lecture from the comfort of my home.

[00:07:29] Before it gets dark, I’m going to take Kingsley out on a walk. Before I do that, I’m going to get changed.

[00:07:43] My friend Brad and Kira are here to pick me up and we are going on our way to Kennedy Park.

[00:07:54] So we just got to Kennedy Park in Coconut Grove, which is about 10, 15 minutes from Coral Gables. So what we’re doing here is intramural sports. So what that means is if you’re a USA student, you can play.

[00:08:18] All right. We just got done with our game. We won. It was really fun, and now, it’s time to get clean, because I’m sandy, and wind down.

[00:08:28] Done with the shower, and I’m going to do some nighttime skincare routine stuff.

[00:08:42] Yeah. So it’s about 8 o’clock, 8:00 PM right now, and I’m going to go to bed pretty early because I have to wake up at 4:00 tomorrow. A group of students from my cohort and I will be traveling to Orlando for the Special Olympics with a few of our instructors, and we’re going to go volunteer to perform some exams, help out with some testing, and we get to volunteer for two days. And it’s, on the premises of Disney World, so I’m pretty excited. Everyone that I’ve talked to that has gone has said it’s, like, such a really cool experience.

[00:09:26] When I first thought of entering grad school, I thought my life was just mainly going to be studying. Studying all day and all night. And I would say generally it really is, but for the amount of time, free time that I do have to do, say, like, go to the gym or, you know, play intramural sports and participate in extracurricular activities, like the Special Olympics.

[00:09:52] Or last weekend, I, my school participated in the Move Miami walk that was a fundraiser for Parkinson’s disease. I just, I didn’t expect to be able to do so many things. And I think it’s important to keep that balance. It’s, it’s, it keeps things fun. I, I really do feel like the more you put into something, the more you’ll get out of it, and what you get, it’s what you make of it.

[00:10:21] And I remember when I first moved here, I decided, you know, if I’m moving across the country from California, if I’m going to do this, I’m going to do this full out, and I’m going to fully commit. And so, I’m making the best of it, and I’m really having the time of my life.

[00:10:43] This is my favorite part of the day.

[00:10:50] And I’ve made my little fort. Okay. All right, Kings up. Up, up. Come on.

[00:11:05] All right, guys. Thanks for joining me today. I, I had a lot of fun. I hope you had fun. I hope you got to see, what it’s like to be a student for University of St. Augustine and what it, what it all entails. You know, I hope you got to enjoy the different parts of Miami that you may not have normally have seen.

[00:11:27] I love sharing my life here in Miami because it’s something that I didn’t think I would ever experience, and it, it exceeds all, it exceeded all of my expectations. So I had a, I had a great time. It’s been a day. I gotta get some rest, and I will see you guys later. Alexa, turn off bedroom.