Blog 4: Interview Preparation

1. Who do you plan to interview? Why?

• My mentor, Dr. Lambert. She is the head physical therapist in the rehab center I volunteer at has years of experience in this job.

2. You have to ask 5 questions. What additional questions do you plan to ask?

• How similar are a chiropractor's (kinesiology) and a physical therapist's job?

Blog 3: Topic Choice and Working EQ

1. List your topic here:

• My topic is on Physical Therapy

2. Write a question that helps to focus your research this month.

• What is the most effective way to satisfy a patient as a Physical Therapist?

3. Post the working bibliography (WB) on the right hand side of the blog and share it so anybody can view it.

• Done

Blog 2: Summer Mentorship

1. Using Google doc (drive) link a log of specific hours and a description of your duties.

• Mentorship Hours

2. What is the contact name & number of where you volunteered?

• Upland Rehabilitation Care Center (909) 985-1903

3. What questions were raised because of the 10 hours of experience? List them.

• Are care plans the same for old and young people with the same injury?
• What are the common injuries old patients have?
• Do PT's do the same thing in other facilities?

4. What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

• PT's aren't actually the ones working with the patients. The PTA are the people who help the patients while the PT work on making a plan and doing paperwork

5. What is your senior project topic going to be? How did what you did help you choose a topic? Please explain.

• It's going to be on Physical Therapy. I really don't know how I got the idea of doing this for my topic. The idea just popped up in my head randomly and I stuck with it

Blog 1: 2-Hour Presentation

1. What presentations did you see?

• Marco Gonzalez - Insurance
• Jasmine Quiroz - Soccer Training
• Sarah Solar - Goalkeeping
• Carlos Cerrillos - Information Technology
• Nitjasin QP - Dentistry
• Brian Cabantug - Software Development
• Yesenia Martin - Sales Representative
• Bradley Schott - Computer Science
• Rhaven Innis - HIV
• Juan Rizo - Landscaping
• Cesar Lopez - Electrician
• Jesus Ortiz - Soccer
• Punit Patel - Dentistry
• Lionel Arellano - Computer Technical Services
• David Lara - Lending

2. What questions do you have that haven't been answered about the senior project? This can be about the senior project in general, any components or about a presentation topic you saw or what they said.

• How much time do we have if we want to change our topics?
• Can we choose who grades us during our presentation?

3. What has the most important part of the senior project based on what you are seeing in the 2-hour presentations?

• What was taught by the mentorship because something the mentor said was usually one of the answers of each presentation and they have real experience in your topic

4. What topic are you considering doing and why?

• Physical Therapy and it was off a whim that I wanted to do this as a career

5. What are you doing for your summer mentorship?

• I am going to be at a rehab center in Upland