Advisory Meeting #2

EQ: What is the best way a Pediatric Oncologist can increase the survival rate of a patient with a primary cancer?

Answer #2: A Pediatric Oncologist can increase the survival rate of a patient with a primary cancer by developing specialized treatments that are effective in killing cancerous cells.

3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example): 

1. Screening reduces mortality in the U.S.

2. Develop a systematic plan for screening, surveillance, and prevention.

3. Another approach to delivering Conformal Radiatian therapy involves arc therapy with photons. 

The research source (s) to support your details and answer: 

1. Thomas, Frieden. "The Oncologist." A Public Health Approach to Winning the War Against Cancer. AlphaMed Press, 17 Dec. 2008. Web. 06 Feb. 2014.

2. Oeffinger, Kevin. "The Annals of Family Medicine." Health Care of Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. Annals of Family Medicine, 1 Jan. 2014. Web. 15 Oct. 2013.

3. Tarbell, Nancy J. "The Oncologist." Conformal Radiation Therapy for Childhood CNS Tumors. AlphaMed Press, n.d. Web. 20 Feb. 2014.

Concluding Sentence: Treatments are meant to fight cancer in certain ways, but narrowing them down further can increase the chances of a patient's survival rate since a specialized treatment will focus on each individual specifically.

Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  For my 30 hours I will do mentorship, I feel that mentorship is giving me much knowledge to which I can always refer back to. I have learned some valuable information while being in my mentorship and I feel it will help me with backing up my answers.
2.  This time I will provide pictures of things that relate to my answers. For example my first answer has to do with the psychological and emotional support of a doctor through their relationship with a patient. I would like to maybe take a picture of the bulletin board of patient's pictures at the office. That itself shows the relationship made between a doctor and patient.
3.  Mentorship has been a great help with providing specific examples that relate to my topic and better yet to my answers. In my 30 minute presentation I was able to point out many situations that I witnessed in mentorship to help me prove my answer one's true validity. Mentorship will help me continue to grow in my knowledge of my topic.

Independent Component 1

Literal
a) I, Brianna Sigala, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
b) Jen Soto and the Chino Pediatrics team helped me complete this independent component.
c) Posted.
d) I completed 30 extra hours of mentorship. I shadowed my mentor and other nurses as well as helping them out with other tasks at hand such as grabbing files and inserting insurance information or how much due payment the patient has.

Interpretive
One of the most significant parts of doing 30 extra hours of mentorship is that I learn more and more about what it is like to work with children and their parents. It demonstrates 30 hours of work because since the beginning of the year I dedicated myself into going to mentorship and learning more than what was required of us for mentorship, these 30 hours give me the credibility of becoming an expert in my field. With working and seeing my mentor and others in action I begin to visualize and process what it takes to work with children, I become more experienced and an expertise in my senior topic.

Due to the fact that it's a Pediatric office I can't really openly take a picture of patients and the private information. I do have a picture of my mentorship.

Applied
Independent Component helped me understand the foundation of my senior topic better by giving me more experience in working with children. At first when we started researching articles I was bombarded with so much information that I didn't know what route I wanted to take. My mentorship helped me clear that up by consistently giving examples of the key components of working with children. For example my answer 1 derived from my research but was assured through my extra 30 hours of mentorship I began to observe how my answer 1 played out in mentorship and how it proved to be true. My answer 1 is "to touch base with patients on a near daily basis" and in my research it is proven statistically that the relationship between a patient and a doctor is vital to a speedy recovery but through my mentorship I experienced first hand how this was true.

Lesson 2 Reflection

1. I am most proud of how much information I gave during my lesson 2 presentation because it helped me move my answer along and inform my classmates very well. I was also proud that I did not freak out it was as if all the information just came out of my mouth naturally so that was really nice.

2. a. I would give myself a P
b.  I think I deserve this grade because I met the requirements. For example, my research was cited throughout my presentation in which I used it to back up my answer.

3. What worked for me in my lesson 2 presentation was the capturing of my classmates attention and giving them interesting information that they cared about.

4. If I had a time machine and could have done something differently in my presentation I would have bettered my scenarios for my activity.

5. I don't really know yet, I think my answer #2 will probably focus more on the treatments aspect of Pediatric cancer.

Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

1. How can an individual best push a community to promote awareness of Pediatric Oncology?
2. What is essential and basic information your patient and their parents should know?
3. How important is it for a child and their parents to be aware of the type of cancer they have and the change of life style it will bring? Why? What specifically changes in the life of a patient when they are diagnosed with cancer?
4. Working with people who slowly die because of cancer is already hard enough what techniques do you use that are helpful for coping with sadness when a patient dies?
5. What advice can you give to those individuals that are trying to promote awareness of Pediatric Oncology, what should their information be focused on?
6. Cancer among adults is different from cancer among children, how is this true?
7. What is a factor that you think drives others to act as a part of working against fighting cancer?
8. What major problem can arise with a patients parents?
9. What specific group of people should someone who is trying to promote Pediatric Oncology focus on?
10. How big of a part does a physician play in the recovery of a patient?

Blog 11: Mentorship 10 Hours

1. Chino Pediatrics

2. Jennifer Soto

3. I have done 30 hours at my mentorship so far.

4. While being at Chino Pediatrics I have seen shots taken place, physicals, daily check ups of fever. I have learned certain things about insurances of patients and how to test if a pee is clean, what certain papers in patients files mean, and most of all I have learned how to better interact with patients and their parents.

Senior Project, The Holiday

1. Over this break I researched more on my topic, Pediatric Oncology. After going through Model Assembly I realized that the research I was obtaining previously was not beneficial enough to what I was looking for. I started looking more into research that had to do with my essential question. The questions we were asked during Model Assembly also gave me help with finding out what people would like to know about my topic.

2. I learned through what I did that I was finding very useful information and the technique I was using was very helpful, reading articles that were true stories and experiences from those that had experienced what it is like to be around a child with cancer and what are the most important things that should be looked on. The source of what I learned was the research we did during Model Assembly and general debate.

3. I would try to talk to an actual Pediatric Oncologist or a Pediatric then an Oncologist. For example I would seek someone from City of Hope so a doctor that has experience dealing with these situations day after day because they know what vital information must be known about being in these situations.