Medical student provides a voice for patients and families with special needs - UMass Medical School

By Colleen Locke and Kaylee Pugliese

UMass Chan Medical School Communications

As a third-year pupil successful the T.H. Chan School of Medicine, Naaz Daneshvar is doing what she wanted to bash increasing up successful McLean, Virginia: assistance people.

“Since kindergarten, I knew I wanted to beryllium a doctor; my dad’s an allergist,” Daneshvar said. “But arsenic I grew older, I loved subject classes and experiments. And past successful college, it truly felt close to beryllium volunteering and successful the hospital, scribing successful the exigency room.”

Daneshvar wants to enactment with children with analyzable aesculapian needs partially due to the fact that of her 40-year-old relative Amir, who has an intelligence and developmental disability.

“He can’t pass similar you oregon I do. If he’s sick, helium can’t truly accidental what’s wrong,” she said.

Daneshvar worked to marque a people called Operation House Call a request for first-year students successful the Chan School of Medicine. Offered by the Arc of Massachusetts, the people prepares aesculapian students to interact with patients with intelligence and developmental disabilities. Patients and their families travel to field and students besides bash a location visit.

“By introducing students to families aboriginal on, I deliberation anyone tin beryllium equipped to attraction for a diligent that has an intelligence oregon developmental disability,” Daneshvar said.

She testified earlier the authorities legislature astir wherefore the grooming should beryllium required for each aesculapian students successful Massachusetts past autumn and she wrote a missive to the exertion of The Boston Globe astir the pending legislation successful July.

“I knew aboriginal connected that advocacy was thing that I wanted to incorporated into my individuality arsenic a aesculapian pupil and aboriginal connected arsenic a doc due to the fact that I cognize my dependable volition transportation truthful overmuch weight. If I tin supply a dependable for these families by penning a missive oregon testifying successful beforehand of the House, I’m much than blessed to bash so,” she said.

Watch the video supra to perceive from students successful the Operation House Call people and perceive to the Voices of UMass Chan podcast to perceive the afloat interrogation with Naaz Daneshvar.

The Student Spotlight bid features UMass Chan Medical School students successful the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing and T.H. Chan School of Medicine. For much accusation astir UMass Chan Medical School and however to apply, sojourn the Prospective Students page.

Related UMass Chan quality stories:
Operation House Call pairs aesculapian students, peculiar needs families for lessons successful compassionate care
New School of Medicine students stock acquisition successful archetypal weeks of hybrid learning