Thursday, August 29, 2013

Blog 4: Interview Preparation

1.  For my first Interview I plan to interview a physical therapist named Joel at my mentorship.  I plan to interview him because he is the person who first showed me around the physical therapy area and has a large amount of experience at being interviewed by students.

2.  These are some other questions that I plan to ask him.

    1. How did you enter this profession? 
    2. Would you encourage people to prepare for and enter this career in the future? 
    3.What are the most satisfying aspects of this profession? 
    4.What suggestions do you have for people entering this profession? 
    5.What is the educational background required? 

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Blog 3 Choice and Semester 1 ESLR Goals

1. My topic for Senior Project is Physical Therapy.

2. Effective Learner- Usually in class I don't really participate a lot and talk to my friends. I think that doing that directly affected the outcome of my grades.  So I want to be more attentive in class and participate actively.

Effective Communicator- The past few years at I-Poly has helped me to become an efficient speaker.  However the problem that I have is presenting in front of a large group of people.  I hope to be able to become a more confident speaker and be better at preparing for presentations.  Also in groups I have a tendency to let people do what they want to do without really contributing, so I want to be able to get better at sharing my ideas with my group members.

Effective User of Technology-  To be an effective user of technology I will use the internet to help me with finding information on my topic.  I will also use it to help me with my core classes so that i can better understand whatever that I learn.

Effective I-Poly Citizen-  During my I-Poly experience I have never been really active in much of the activities.  But this year I want to make memories of this school and hope to become involved in senior activities and such.  Also last year I was always late to class at least once a day, so this year I wish to be able to come on time to class.

Monday, August 19, 2013

Summer Mentorship Component

Q.1 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wLzmjpWrLmpSE_XgaiH91d3J9wgzRQ0E_uP3BHWq2RQ/edit

Q.2
Kaiser Permanente Volunteer Services
1011 Baldwin Park Blvd.
Baldwin Park, CA 91706
Phone # :(626)851-6745
Mrs. Boulware

Q.3  Some Questions that I thought of were...

1.  What is the most efficient way of helping a patient recover?
2.   Do different injuries call for different types of treatments?
3.  How long does an average treatment last for?
4.  Besides doing exercises with patients what else does a PT do?

Q.4  The most important thing that I gained from this experience was seeing Physical Therapists doing their work  right in front of me.  Before i had only read online what physical therapists do, now that i see them doing their jobs it became more interesting to me and that they have a very high pace job.

Q.5 I always wanted to go into the medical field, but i wasn't exactly sure which field i wanted to go into.  I didn't want to go into a field where there was a lot of blood, but i still wanted to work with the body.  So I looked into different types of therapy and found that it really matched with me.  I took the chance to volunteer at Kaiser Permanente and luckily got into the department that i wanted, which was physical therapy.