Title: Blog 23: Senior Project Reflection
Label: Presentation
Directions: Please answer the following questions, and submit them to the blog.
Due Date: The day after your block presentation by 8:00 A.M.
(1) Positive Statement
What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?
I am glad that I made time, especially because I went above the 30 minute minimum by going over 40 minutes in research quality time. This is good because I was able to show my audience the plethora of knowledge I have acquired over the year.
(2) Questions to Consider
a. What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation (self-assessment)?
AE P AP CR NC
b. What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)?
AE P AP CR NC
(3) What worked for you in your senior project?
Mentorship and Independent Component worked out the best for me. The reason is because I got to do pretty cool stuff while learning a lot. All of this stuff is the same things pre-med students would do and even medical students. Things such shadowing a cardiologist, volunteering in Cath Lab, volunteering in Cardiac Rehab, and watching actual heart procedures in person.
(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?
Not lag behind on my research checks! Those got me! I was in pressure to finish them before my exit interview.
(5) Finding Value
How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors? Be specific and use examples.
I have gained so much knowledge about cardiology and medicine that is amazing. I have more knowledge than the average high schooler, and even possible college student. I now have all this experience under my belt which will help me in my pre-med program in college. I will be ahead of my peers. I have made new connections and have learned how to ask.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Blog 22: Mentorship
Content:
LIA Response to blog:
Literal
· Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties updated on the right hand side of your blog
· Contact Name and Mentorship Place
Dr. Muthusamy Muthiah
Chaparral Medical Group - Pomona
Interpretive
What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?
I learned how to deal with a patient in a very good manner. I learned good beside manner from Dr. Muthiah. This is the most important things to me because since I am not a medical student, I didn't really understand much of the medications or diagnoses, but I could clearly see with my own two eyes how Dr. Muthiah acted with his patients and how he took care of them. Bedside manner is crucial because I can start implementing it within myself to help me in life.
Applied
How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ? Please explain.
It gave me my best answer regarding bedside manner.
*Please do not turn in your mentorship hours to the office. After we collect the total list from all seniors, we will turn in one piece of paper with all hours for everybody. It is counted as 50 hours of the 200 you need in order to graduate from I-Poly. The 10 hours in the summer have already been added to your community service total.
Grading Criteria (May 13th)
50 hours completed (50 from the academic year)
LIA response (submitted to your blog)
Essential question connection
LIA Response to blog:
Literal
· Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties updated on the right hand side of your blog
· Contact Name and Mentorship Place
Dr. Muthusamy Muthiah
Chaparral Medical Group - Pomona
Interpretive
What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?
I learned how to deal with a patient in a very good manner. I learned good beside manner from Dr. Muthiah. This is the most important things to me because since I am not a medical student, I didn't really understand much of the medications or diagnoses, but I could clearly see with my own two eyes how Dr. Muthiah acted with his patients and how he took care of them. Bedside manner is crucial because I can start implementing it within myself to help me in life.
Applied
How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ? Please explain.
It gave me my best answer regarding bedside manner.
*Please do not turn in your mentorship hours to the office. After we collect the total list from all seniors, we will turn in one piece of paper with all hours for everybody. It is counted as 50 hours of the 200 you need in order to graduate from I-Poly. The 10 hours in the summer have already been added to your community service total.
Grading Criteria (May 13th)
50 hours completed (50 from the academic year)
LIA response (submitted to your blog)
Essential question connection
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Blog 21: Exit Interview
Please be advised. The senior team will not conduct any exit interview in which the student has not turned in a passing research count and completing this blog. In addition, you are expected to dress as you would for a job interview.
Content:
(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers? What is your best answer and why?
My Essential Question is: "What steps can be taken to ensure the health and well-being of a cardiac patient?"
My first answer is: "A cardiac patient should opt to undergo a surgery."
My second answer is: "Bedside manner should be practiced by both the nurses and cardiologist."
My third answer is: "A cardiac patient should opt to partake in regular cardiac rehab sessions."
My best answer would have to be my 2nd answer regarding bedside manner. My other two answers are important, especially considering that they are life-changers if utilized. But they are completely useless if the patient doesn't choose to do them. Bedside manner, if executed properly, has the capability to convince the patient to participate in such things because bedside manner gives the patient confidence and trust in the doctor.
(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
At first, when I had my first answer of cardiac rehab, I wasn't too satisfied with this answer because I knew there was something better than this, even though it is a vital answer. I considered my other answer of surgery, which wasn't my answer at the time, and was keen to implementing this as my new answer and making it my best right off the spot, but it didn't seem right either.
I also knew that I wanted one my answers to be what I saw and experienced from my mentorship, but the thing was, I didn't exactly know what. It then hit me, on what I should do my for answer regarding mentorship. I had noticed certain clues during and even before my mentorship had started regarding my mentor, Dr. Muthiah himself. During my mentorship, every time a patient asked me if I was student, and I said, "yes", they would smile and tell me that I was lucky to have Dr. Muthiah as my doctor and not some other doctor. This didn't happen only once; this happened quite a few times. Majority of the patients loved Dr. Muthiah so much. They had common reasons as well: such as he is gentle, he is kind, he listens to them.
After a while, I remembered all the way back to summer mentorship, when I was trying to find a mentor. When I talked to my volunteer director at Pomona Hospital for help, she had recommended me Dr. Muthiah because 1.) He was the youngest cardioligst, 2.) He had a good personality and character. When I went in the cath lab for summer mentorship, I asked the nurses around for their top 3 cardiologist list. Each one had Dr. Muthiah in it the top 3. Even a nurse at PACU which is not a cardiac department, knew of Dr. Muthiah's name. She knew his name because he has "good beside manner, he is gentle, and he cares about his patients."
Remembering all this and seeing how his patients were usually happy, it struck me that my second and best answer should be about a doctor having good character, hence good bedside manner.
(3) What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?
The first biggest problem that hit me was my research checks. Around March, they started becoming bothersome and in the way which led to me to incomplete research checks and research counts. The reason it got in the way was because I was already packed with other things such as my senior project independent component, mentorship, and interviews. I was busy with my International Relations college course at Cal Poly Pomona which had a lot more work than any other class I have had. I also unfortunately had started developing the mindset, "I don't need research checks" around that time too because I noticed that my mentorship and independent components were giving me sufficient and efficient knowledge. So this made it worse in having me complete them.
To resolve this, I simply am doing my research checks right before the Exit Interview. I stand corrected now in that I kinda do need this. Its good to have both theory and application because there is only so much I can explain with only application in my final presentation.
Another problem I faced was conducting the interviews. Doctors sure are busy! It was very hard to schedule an appointment with them and it was even harder to do the interview. For the 5 question interview, I did it with my mentor, and wow, it was really hard to ask 5 questions. I could only ask him in his free time which was a few minutes at most. I had to ask him on his way from the clinic to the hospital and I had to do it fast because the hospital was nearby.
To resolve this, I remembered that my dad was actually a doctor in Pakistan. So I interviewed him for my 3rd and 4th interview. He had a lot of valuable information because he has experience with both my 1st and 2nd answer to some extent. I could also ask him any question at any time, well because he is my dad haha.
(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
My first and foremost significant source would have to me my mentor, Dr. Muthiah because I have seem him do procedures and I have seen his bedside manner in action. I have literally witnessed my first and second and best answer with him.
My second most significant source would have to be the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. This website is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. So this is a governmental website. I have found so much valuable and unbiased information on my 1st and 3rd answer from multiple times. Even for my foundational knowledge in the beginning, this website helped me.
Be prepared with evidence and specific examples to support any response. It is also significant to cite sources as you explain.
Content:
(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers? What is your best answer and why?
My Essential Question is: "What steps can be taken to ensure the health and well-being of a cardiac patient?"
My first answer is: "A cardiac patient should opt to undergo a surgery."
My second answer is: "Bedside manner should be practiced by both the nurses and cardiologist."
My third answer is: "A cardiac patient should opt to partake in regular cardiac rehab sessions."
My best answer would have to be my 2nd answer regarding bedside manner. My other two answers are important, especially considering that they are life-changers if utilized. But they are completely useless if the patient doesn't choose to do them. Bedside manner, if executed properly, has the capability to convince the patient to participate in such things because bedside manner gives the patient confidence and trust in the doctor.
(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
At first, when I had my first answer of cardiac rehab, I wasn't too satisfied with this answer because I knew there was something better than this, even though it is a vital answer. I considered my other answer of surgery, which wasn't my answer at the time, and was keen to implementing this as my new answer and making it my best right off the spot, but it didn't seem right either.
I also knew that I wanted one my answers to be what I saw and experienced from my mentorship, but the thing was, I didn't exactly know what. It then hit me, on what I should do my for answer regarding mentorship. I had noticed certain clues during and even before my mentorship had started regarding my mentor, Dr. Muthiah himself. During my mentorship, every time a patient asked me if I was student, and I said, "yes", they would smile and tell me that I was lucky to have Dr. Muthiah as my doctor and not some other doctor. This didn't happen only once; this happened quite a few times. Majority of the patients loved Dr. Muthiah so much. They had common reasons as well: such as he is gentle, he is kind, he listens to them.
After a while, I remembered all the way back to summer mentorship, when I was trying to find a mentor. When I talked to my volunteer director at Pomona Hospital for help, she had recommended me Dr. Muthiah because 1.) He was the youngest cardioligst, 2.) He had a good personality and character. When I went in the cath lab for summer mentorship, I asked the nurses around for their top 3 cardiologist list. Each one had Dr. Muthiah in it the top 3. Even a nurse at PACU which is not a cardiac department, knew of Dr. Muthiah's name. She knew his name because he has "good beside manner, he is gentle, and he cares about his patients."
Remembering all this and seeing how his patients were usually happy, it struck me that my second and best answer should be about a doctor having good character, hence good bedside manner.
(3) What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?
The first biggest problem that hit me was my research checks. Around March, they started becoming bothersome and in the way which led to me to incomplete research checks and research counts. The reason it got in the way was because I was already packed with other things such as my senior project independent component, mentorship, and interviews. I was busy with my International Relations college course at Cal Poly Pomona which had a lot more work than any other class I have had. I also unfortunately had started developing the mindset, "I don't need research checks" around that time too because I noticed that my mentorship and independent components were giving me sufficient and efficient knowledge. So this made it worse in having me complete them.
To resolve this, I simply am doing my research checks right before the Exit Interview. I stand corrected now in that I kinda do need this. Its good to have both theory and application because there is only so much I can explain with only application in my final presentation.
Another problem I faced was conducting the interviews. Doctors sure are busy! It was very hard to schedule an appointment with them and it was even harder to do the interview. For the 5 question interview, I did it with my mentor, and wow, it was really hard to ask 5 questions. I could only ask him in his free time which was a few minutes at most. I had to ask him on his way from the clinic to the hospital and I had to do it fast because the hospital was nearby.
To resolve this, I remembered that my dad was actually a doctor in Pakistan. So I interviewed him for my 3rd and 4th interview. He had a lot of valuable information because he has experience with both my 1st and 2nd answer to some extent. I could also ask him any question at any time, well because he is my dad haha.
(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
My first and foremost significant source would have to me my mentor, Dr. Muthiah because I have seem him do procedures and I have seen his bedside manner in action. I have literally witnessed my first and second and best answer with him.
My second most significant source would have to be the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. This website is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. So this is a governmental website. I have found so much valuable and unbiased information on my 1st and 3rd answer from multiple times. Even for my foundational knowledge in the beginning, this website helped me.
Be prepared with evidence and specific examples to support any response. It is also significant to cite sources as you explain.
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