Blog 21 - Interview 4 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?
        The most important thing I learned from this interview is he fact that communication with the parents of a patient is extremely important. By communicating with the parents of a patient, a doctor can be ensured that a patient will be treated without the assistance of the doctor. A sense of trust is built between the doctor and parents, resulting with the patient being healthy.
  
2.  How will what I learned affect my final lesson?
         I might incorporate the knowledge I gathered from this interview in an activity during my final lesson. I can create reenactments for the audience to either or perform, showing how the pediatrician also speaks to the parents during a patient's visit and how it helps improve a pediatric doctor/patient relationship.
 

Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  
             The most important thing I learned from this interview was the fact that it is incredibly important to establish a good relationship with the parents of patients, as the patients themselves are usually really young. It's also important to make the patients comfortable in a non-threatening environment, and treat everyone with respect.


2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?
               I have come to develop stronger questions over time and it's been somewhat easier to construct these questions as well. As for conducting the interview itself, I find myself a bit more confident when asking the questions and having a more professional manner.


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Blog 10 - Interview 2 Reflection

1. Please explain how you are spending your mentorship time (Is it at a workplace or somewhere else?  Are you shadowing?  Are you able to do tasks that are meaningfully related to the topic?  If so, what?  Are there other people who are experts in the location?  Etc...)

                  I spend my mentorship time at a health care clinic that my mentor works at. I usually shadow her as she works and she will explain some information on how to treat a certain patient, however, there are times when Dr. Rosado asks me to make copies of certain forms she hands out to patients and/or their parents.

2.  How did you find your mentor?  How did you convince this person to help you?   

                 My mentor is my pediatrician. I had once spoke to her on how I had thought of pursing a career in medicine. She had stated that if I had any questions that I could come talk to her. Upon learning that I was required to have a mentor for this project, she was the first person who came to mind. When I had the opportunity during the summer, I called her and asked if she would be my mentor. She said that she was more than happy to be my mentor, and we constructed a schedule on the days I would be able to visit and volunteer at her working environment.

3. How would you rate your comfort level with your mentor at this point in your relationship?  How does this relate to the time you've spent so far at mentorship/with this person

                  On a scale of 1-10, I would say that the comfort level with my mentor at this point in my relationship is a 9 or a 10. Considering that my mentor is also my, and many other patients' pediatrician, my time spent with her as my mentor has been pleasant.

4. What went well in this interview?  Why do you think so?  What do you still need to improve?  How do you know?  How will you go about it?

                  I conducted the interview in my mentor's office. I think that was probably the best choice I made due to the fact that no one interrupted while the interview was in progress. I was able to interview my mentor without any distractions. Any improvements would have to revolve around more thought provoking questions and follow up questions. I will have to come up with better questions and pay better attention when listening to the people I interview to make follow up questions.

Link to Interview 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKNPb4wq8vw&list=PLffljVUZackDmo7i-bGaZGOiyIGwuSC5C&index=2 

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.

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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?