Blog 23: Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?

          My essential question is how can a pediatrician build a healthy doctor/patient relationship? My best answer to my essential question is my third answer, patient-centered care. I chose this as my best answer due to the fact that patient-centered care is essentially the building block for my other two answers. Ironic how I found my best answer at the end of all my research.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

          I went through multiple articles and hours of mentorship. I began with just researching articles that gave out pediatric related information as well as shadowing my mentor as she worked, taking down notes of what she did as she checked each patient. As soon as my essential question was established I focused on finding articles that would help answer my essential question. It wasn't until I reached Source 53 that I found my best answer, and by that time I had already found two potential answers that could act as my definitive answer for my essential question.

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

          It became somewhat difficult finding articles that provided me new information and methods that could answer my essential question after I had discovered two potential answers. It seemed that there wouldn't be any new information I could use. However, as I kept on searching deeper throughout the multiple articles I researched, I was able to find the articles with the answers I needed.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
          The two most significant sources I used to answer my essential question are Sources 53 and 68. I consider these to be my most significant sources due to Source 53 being my introduction to patient-centered care, and Source 68 providing me the most beneficial information on patient centered care.