-: I came here to Penn State,
joined the HHD.
I did Kinesiology and the basic science offered
for Nutritional Sciences.
I decided to double major.
Within those two double majors,
you're gonna get your physics, your biochemistry,
organic chemistry, calculus,
you're gonna get all these classes
that are gonna prepare you
for say, your MCAT and for medical school, right?
But through Kinesiology,
I learned a lot about mechanics,
the drive, the motivation for human movement,
how to analyze human movement,
and then nutrition,
learned a lot about human biochemistry,
also, just how pathology or disease plays into
your daily diet.
HHD has great majors.
Kinesiology and Nutrition truly did prepare me
for being a physician,
both in the Air Force and in the civilian world.
A lot of my friends, I talk to people I know
and they always tell me,
"Hey, I don't remember anything in undergrad.
"I went to undergrad and they helped me for my MCAT
"but now that I'm a physician,
"I don't apply anything from undergrad."
That's not my case.
For me, I apply so much from what I've learned in Nutrition
and Kinesis, to my patients now.
The way you talk to them,
the way you can listen and kinda understand them better
on why they moved a certain way.
Movement and food.
Let's say in my case,
I'm now starting Physical Medicine Rehab residency.
My goal is to do
a Interventional Sports and Spine fellowship.
So doing the fellowship,
eventually a hospital, a clinic, a private practice,
will start to look for new staff
and that's when you would start to apply.