Philadelphia Academies, Inc. interns Shaquanda Johnson, Tyree Molett and Ernades Jovin stand outside The Eye Institute during the last few days of their 6 week internship.
Philadelphia Academies, Inc. interns Shaquanda Johnson, Tyree Molett and Ernades Jovin stand outside The Eye Institute during the last few days of their 6 week internship.
Interns Shaquanda Johnson, Tyree Molett and Ernades Jovin (seated) show some aspects of what they learned during their time at The Eye Institute.
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Helping High School Students Find Their Vision
Working alongside primary eye care doctors at The Eye Institute, filing patient charts, cleaning contact lenses and learning how to use eye care instruments are just a few of the tasks Philadelphia Academies, Inc. students were involved in this summer.
The Eye Institute's doctors, optometric interns and support staff helped mentor three students from Martin Luther King High School for the second consecutive year. Senior Tyree Molett and juniors Shaquanda Johnson and Ernades Jovin learned all about eye care, eye diseases and much more while on site four days a week for six weeks.
"The thing I enjoyed the most was observing the eye doctors and seeing how they worked with patients," Molett said.
This experience combined with their course work helped the soon-to-be college bound teenagers focus their interests. "I didn't really think about being an eye doctor before I came here, but it's interesting," Johnson, 17, said. After learning the importance of eye health, and how annual exams can help determine if other health problems exist, she became curious.
Molett, who aspires to be an optometrist or registered nurse, also enjoyed a similar experience. "I would recommend this internship to anyone working in the health field because at first, I was just doing it for the experience, and after the first week, I started to become interested in optometry because of what I was learning," he said.
