Blog 7 - Second Interview Preparation

The purpose of the second interview is to justify your mentor as an expert in the field.  You will be asking them at least 5 questions about their background and/or the background of the organization or company where they work.

1.  Who is your mentor and where do they work?  If their workplace does not reflect their expertise, what makes them an expert? 

            My mentor is Dr. Mayra Rosado. She is a 1988 graduate from Harvard University's medical school. She did her medical residency in pediatrics from 1988 to 1991 at the UCLA Medical Center, and she works at Health Care Partners in El Monte as its pediatrician, as well as other Health Care Partners facilities in the Los Angeles area. Dr. Rosado is also affiliated with White Memorial Medical Center, Beverley Hospital, Monterey Park Hospital, and Glendale Medical Hospital & Health Center. She has been working at Health Care Partners for 27 years.

 

2.  What five questions will you ask them about their background?

             The questions that I shall ask my mentor about her background history are the following:

1. What would you say helped lead you down the path of becoming a pediatrician/What inspired you?
2. Which classes were the most enjoyable & most tedious when studying to become a doctor?
3. How many years has Health Care Partners been around, and how long has it been a healthcare provider?
4. To your knowledge, what is the percentage of patients that use Health Care Partners versus other healthcare providers in Southern California?
5. Why did you decide to work at Health Care Partners instead of any other medical facilities such as Kaiser or LA County General Hospital?

Blog 6 - Advisory Prep

Please copy these questions and answer them in your own blog.  Don't forget an image to promote interest.

We'll have a house discussion in place of a research check this Friday to check in on how things are going. 
 

1. What has worked well for you concerning senior project this year?  What has made it a positive experience for you?  

             Concerning the senior project, the main part that's been working well for me is my time volunteering at the Health Care Partners in El Monte. I enjoy spending time with my mentor, witnessing her help her patients. Plus I am learning a lot of information with each patient that she works with.

2. What are you finding difficult concerning senior project?  How can you adapt to make that portion work better for you?  How might the senior team help?

             Concerning the senior project, the main part that I have been having difficult with is making a good essential question and finding more resources I can use for research. A possible way I can make these portions work better for me is possibly asking my uncle for any medical books or journals I could borrow from him. The senior team could help me look over potential essential questions that I have thought up, and then decide which one will be my essential question.

Blog 5 - Interview 1 Reflection

Please copy these questions and answer them in your own blog.  Attach a link to your video or sound file.  As usual, you'll want an appropriate image to lead this. 

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  Is there anything I would do differently for other interviews?

            I would have to say that the most important thing I learned from this interview is that I should write down what the interviewee says as I question them. For the next interviews, I will have them in a quieter area, and I will have a notepad & pencil on standby to mark down the interviewee's answers.

2. Did I get additional resources and contacts?  What is the most useful?  Why?

           From this one interview I did get some additional resources and contacts. The most useful would have to be the knowledge of a nearby facilities that I could visit for possible volunteer work. With this knowledge, I now have the opportunity to expand my knowledge of medicine by possibly volunteering at these medical facilities.

3. What makes my interviewee qualified to help me? 

           My interviewee has been a vocational nurse for several years and has a vast knowledge of medicine. Even though he might not be a pediatrician, he still works in the medical field, and there are many similarities considering both fields of medicine derive from medicine itself.

Interview 1

Blog 4 - House Advisory Prep

Write a short explanation of what you are hoping to accomplish through your senior project topic.  You will be sharing out on what you've written here with your house advisory and classmates on Friday, 9/11.

As days draw nearer to the end of my time as a high school student, the road to college holds open many doors for me to choose from to find a career that I will enjoy for years to come. The career of my choosing is being a pediatrician.

To help me achieve the goal of becoming a pediatrician, I am currently volunteering at the Health Care Partners located in the city of El Monte. My mentor is a trusted member of the Health Care Partners crew. Her name is Dr. Rosado. During my time at Health Care Partners and my journey towards completing my senior project, I hope to accomplish the goals I have set. These goals include the following: learning the different types of vaccines, how to approach a patient, the education needed to become a pediatrician, etc. By learning as much as I can of my topic through this project, I will be better prepared when studying this topic in college.

Blog 3 - First Interview Preparation

1. Who do you plan to interview? Why?
        The person I plan to interview is my mentor Dr. Rosado.  My reasoning for interviewing my mentor is the fact that she has had experience in the medical field, specifically pediatrics.


2. Five questions will be assigned to all seniors to ask. What additional questions do you plan to ask? Ask open-ended questions.
       The additional questions I plan to ask during my interview will be the following:

           1. Which college classes did you take to go into pediatrics?
           2. What inspired you to become a pediatrician?
           3. What is the most challenging part of being a pediatrician? Why?
           4. What is the starting pay of a pediatrician?
           5. What was your second career choice if you didn't become a pediatrician? Why?