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Portrait of Maria Mendoza

Honor Society® member

Maria Mendoza

Medical assistant at Arnold Chiropractic

  • Ivy Tech Community College
  • healthcare
  • Class of 1999
  • Greentown, IN

Member since April 2022

About

My name is Maria Mendoza, I’m from Nicaragua. In my country I was an emergency physician, but I had to move to the United State three years ago. I am a student at Ivy Tech Community College completing an associate’s degree in science and planning on transferring to a four-year college or university. My educational aspirations consist of acquiring a bachelor’s degree in nursing.

Education

  • Universidad Autonoma de Nicaragua (UNAN), Medical Sciences Faculty

    Specialist in Emergency Medicine

    2011 – 2014

  • Universidad Autonoma de Nicaragua (UNAN), Medical Sciences Faculty

    Doctor in Medicine and Surgery

    2001 – 2006

Honors and awards

  • 2004 Faculty Representative of Medical Sciences UNAN – León, Nicaragua in the IV Exposciences and Technology

Goals and interests

Career goal

Healthcare

Graduate school interests

Nursing

Outside the classroom

Read
Listen Music
Walking

Experience

  • Medical assistant

    Arnold Chiropractic

    Jun 2021 – Jul 2022

  • Production Assembler.

    General Motors Corporation in conjunction with Ventec Life, Kokomo, IN

    Apr 2020 – Dec 2020

  • Emergency Physician

    Metropolitan Vivian Pellas Hospital (Accredited by Joint Commission International-JCI) Managua, Nicaragua

    Aug 2015 – Jul 2018

  • General Practitioner

    Gaspar García Laviana Hospital, Rivas, Nicaragua

    Feb 2007 – Mar 2010

Languages

  • Spanish Advanced
  • English (US) Intermediate