Independent Component 2 Approval

Content:

Please review the component contract at page 12 of the senior project packet.   The independent component 2 is an opportunity for you to add a dimension of creativity and/or an additional outlet for research.  The goal of the component is for you to explore your answers in more depth.  On Friday April 25, 2014, you will be turning in the following to your blog to prove completion of this component:

·       Log of hours on an digital spreadsheet (with total number of hours included)
·       Evidence of the 30 hours of work (e.g. transcript, essays, tests, art work, photographs) as digital artifacts
·       LIA
 The senior team expects that your log will be on the right hand side of your blog with your WB, independent component log 1 and mentorship log.   In addition to this,  we expect that you will be able to prove the total 30 hours of work by submitting evidence to the blog by the due date. For this blog post and approval, please answer the following questions.

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

a. I plan to volunteer in the E.R at citrus valley hospital, where I wish to extend my experience in the medical field and also coincide with my potential answer two which has to do with helping people at home first.
2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

a. Based on previous experience, my duties in the E.R are pretty basic, I need to clean beds, take vitals, hook up patients to a monitor, bring them food, and overall talk to them and make them feel comfortable.
3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

a. Like I mentioned earlier one of my potential second answers has to do with local care before needing to travel internationally, so actually putting it into practice should give me good insight as to wether or not it works.
4.  Post a log on the right hand side of your blog near your other logs and call it the independent component 2 log.
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Your answers to the questions should be supported with details and examples for the senior team to understand what you plan to do.   Once we review your Blog Post 15, your house teacher will discuss with you the approval of your plan.  If it is approved, please start working on it.  If it is not approved, your house teacher will explain why.  It is your job to address the concerns so you can get your component approved.

Independent Component 1

Title:  Independent Component 1
Label:  Independent Component
Due Date:  Friday 2/7 at 8AM
Content:  

• LITERAL
  (a) Statement saying: “I, student name, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
• I, Robinson Baron, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component
• My grandfather, Robinson V. Baron, M.D , and the 2014 medical mission is what helped me compete my independent component.
  (c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours).   Post it next to your mentorship log.
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• (d) Explanation of what you completed.    
• I went on a medical mission for two weeks traveling through three cities assisting in minor and major operations. Roughly, I can estimate I took part in around 50 minor cases and around 10 majors.
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
  
• Basically, minor cases can take anywhere from 30 minutes to a little over an hour with all prep time included, major cases can take several hours depending on the complexity of the case... there were hundreds of people in each city we went, and so there was no shortage of work, I went way above and beyond the thirty hour minimum, and have may pictures to prove it. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 
• This mission helped me see what articles couldn't, by being paced in the situation myself I was exposed to the poverty and the people who could not afford basic medical care, and while one of my first answers was to sway away from an actual medical mission because the research I found supports data that they cause more harm than good, I know that in the short term, those people would not have gotten the help they needed, and I am ultimately glad I was able to take part. The people there never asked for anything, and were just happy to be receiving free care. 

Grading Criteria 

• Log on a digital spreadsheet 
• Evidence of 30 hours of work 
• LIA submitted to blog

Lesson 2 Reflection

Content:

1. Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

a. I am most proud of the fact that when it came to talking about something I actually had some sort of passion for, all the words and things I wanted to say came out easier, and while there was some confusion about making time, I actually had to cut parts of what I wanted to say out so I could keep time for my activity.

2. Questions to Consider
       a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE       (P)          AP       CR       NC

       b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

Honestly I think I deserve a P because I know I met all the basic requirements that were needed and I believe for being the first person who went, that my presentation was clean and clear, and set a standard for the next presentations after.


3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

My content really worked for me in this presentation, there was never a point while I was speaking that I felt that I was running out of things to say or ever left a lul where I was not speaking at all.

4.  (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

I think I would have designed my powerpoint better so that it would have made things even cleaner, I don't think what I had was bad, but I want to improve little things to get closer to an AE

5. Finding Value
What do you think your answer #2 is going to be? 

I was thinking about something one of my articles said about how missionaries should stop focussing so much on third world countries when we have so much we can still do here at home, so I think my answer will have something to do with that. 

January Extra Blog

This week is pretty hectic, I leave for the Philippines medical mission on thursday and I still have so many things I need to do! packing, taking care of the pets, lesson 2, wrapping up the work I'm missing while I'm gone, and a bunch of other things I need to do to help prepare for the mission, like the group packing taking place later this week. Something I want to note for future reference is how much more work goes into an independently run organization like this because while things like Doctors Without Borders has people who's job it is to organize missions to make sure everything goes smoothly, the doctors who take part on this mission must juggle their regular jobs as well as plan everything themselves. That hard and extra work is rewarded though in the form of the ability to help many many more people and many more types of ailment over a shorter amount of time due to the independency. Thats pretty much all I need to note for now.

Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

Content:

*Important to note that for my third interview I planned on interviewing one of the doctors who lives in the Philippines while they are taking part on the mission, that way I can get the perspective of someone on the other end of the medical mission, in that sense, I have tailored my questions to be applicable to that nature. 

1. What is the best way a medical missionary can provide medical aid to people who live in poverty in the Philippines?

2. How did you first get involved in this medical mission organization?

3. How effective do you think these missions are? 

4. What aspects of this mission do you think are unique?

5. Do you think anything can be changed to improve this mission?

6. What is it like living in a country where medical aid is necessary to treat its patients? 

7. What makes you proud to be a part of this mission?

8. What do you think about the idea of teaching local doctors to perform surgeries so it can be done year round? (want an opinion on one of my potential answers)

9. What is your ideal form of a medical mission?

10. What do you do when you are not performing medical missions?

Blog 11 Mentorship 10 hours check

Content:

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?
I am doing my mentorship on various medical missions to Mexico leading up to the final major mission to the Philippines. I am also volunteering at the E.R at Citrus Valley Hospitals, although my training and preparation with my mentor has been pulling my focus on the mission, so I will be resuming my focus on the hospital once we return from the mission as there won't be anymore missionary work to do. 
2.   Who is your contact?
Robinson Duque Baron, M.D. 
3.   How many total hours have you done (total hours should be reflected in your mentorship log located on the right hand side of your blog like your WB)?  
21 
4.   Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.
The ten hours I have done since the Mexico mission have mainly to do with preparation for the medical mission this month. I have been taught to apply sutures and will hopefully be able to apply them on a real person when the time comes for it.
5.   Email your house teacher the name of your contact and their phone number confirming who they should call to verify it.  
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*You need 50 hours plus the original 10 in the summer by May.   The original 10 from the summer do not count toward the 50.  By the end of the year, you will have 60 hours counting that original 10.

Senior Project, The Holiday

Content:

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you over the break with your senior project?
a. over the break, I was taught how to suture an incision and apply stitches, something that I will be expected to do when I take my trip to the Philippines later this month. I have included a couple pictures of my first few stitches for evidence, I did not find it graphic myself, but just a warning.

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did and why?  What was the source of what you learned?


a. The most important thing that came from learning how to suture would be preciseness, and by that I mean that when I am making a stitch, there's a part of it that involves only going in halfway through the top layer of the skin, and the problem with that is if I put the needle in too deep, i run the risk of overlapping the skin and making a bad scar, on the other hand, if I go too light, i can tear the skin completely and the stitch would not do its primary job, which is to hold the skin together where there has been a cut. The source of this came from trial and error when practicing my stitching. 

3.  If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers of your EQ, who would you talk to and why?
a. At this point, there are several doctors in the Philippines that have acted as liaisons over there ever since my grandfather started the mission, so they would have the best possible perspective being directly involved in the missions and being located in a country where they need that kind of medical help