Adam Richards

Experience

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  Physician-Assisted Student Success (PASS) Program

  May 2007 - Jun 2008

  PASS Program Medical Boards Tutor

  Tutored students for the United States Medical Licensing Exams Step I and Step II (the exams needed to graduate from medical school)

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  University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria (Order of St. Francis Hospital)

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

  Resident in Pediatrics

  One month rotations in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU); Hematology & Oncology Ward; In-patient Ward; Emergency Room;Ear, Nose & Throat Clinical Practice; Radiology; and PsychiatryRefined skills in out-patient and in-patient care; critical care; and how to read X-Ray, CTScan, and MRI imagesSaw variety of psychiatric illnesses and learned how to treat them

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  Boca Prep International School

  Apr 2010 - Jun 2011

  IB Biology Teacher

  Courses Taught: IB Biology Diploma Programme (DP) Years 1 and 2, IB DP Math Studies Year 1, IB DP Theory of Knowledge, MYP Chemistry, Algebra I

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  Guangdong Country Garden School

  Sept 2012 - Jun 2016

  IB Biology/Chemistry Teacher

  Other Courses Taught: IB Theory of Knowledge and IGCSE Integrated Sciences Other Areas of InstructionUniversity Counseling Services: Directed students through the university application process [for US/UK/Canada/HK]/wrote reference letters, assisted students with their personal statements/application essays.Other Areas of Involvement: China Week: An event in which students venture domestically or abroad to less fortunate areas and provide a needed good or service for them; in turn, students also learn valuable skills. Show less

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  Quality Schools International

  Aug 2016 - now

  Biology Teacher

  Other Courses Taught: High School BiologyClub Involvement: 1. Engineering Club Supervisor: Manage member work on projects, prepare for engineering conventions throughout the year. 2. Juicy Health Club Supervisor: Oversee and take part in member-initiated cooking of meals, many of which they sell to the student body. 3. Flight Club Supervisor: Oversee member-initiated projects such as building a cockpit for a simulation as well as giving lessons on the basics of flight through a simulator.Other Areas of Involvement: 1. Week Without Walls Supervisor (An event in which students venture domestically or abroad toless fortunate areas and provide a needed good or service for them; in turn, students also learn valuable skills): Helped to coordinate a domestic trip in which students built computers and donated them to an orphanage; Helped to coordinate a domestic trip in which students learn how to code for computers, learn how to design and build their own program to, in some way, benefit those less fortunate. Show less