Blog 26: Senior Project Reflection

1) Positive Statement

• The thing that I am most proud of in my senior project is that I completed all of my hours at my mentorship event though my mentor was on maternity leave for more then four months. 

2) Questions to Consider

• a) After completing my two hour presentation and assessing what I did, the assessment that I would give my self would be a P. 

• b) The assessment that I would give my overall senior project would be a P. 

3) What Worked

• The thing that worked for me in my senior project was that I had the necessary research and resources to help me answer my essential question and I had enough information to back up the answers with evidence. 

4) What didn't work

• If I could go back in time and change one thing from my senior project it  would be completing my first set of monitorship hours. I was so busy with other stuff going on with school and outside activities that I fell behind and I had to make the hours up in less time. This became stressful for me and after that I was always doing the amount of weekly hours that I needed to do to stay on track.

5) Finding Value

• My senior project has been helpful to me in my future endeavors because It has allowed me to explore the medical field and shadow doctors. This has made me come to the conclusion that I would like to pursue the medical field in the future and focus on working with teenagers. Also my mentorship has given me more experience with patient contact which will help me when I am in the ,medical field.

2-Hour Presentation

I finally finished all of the different activities for my two hour presentation. I am some what relieved, but I am also nervous about the actual presentation. I feel as if audience will feel a little uncomfortable about the topic and I do not want to make the presentation awkward. But I will just try my best and hopefully the take the information seriously because they are in the age group that has the highest STD rates, meaning they need to be more cautious about contracting an STD.

Plan B Pill

I went to the store the other day to buy condoms for my presentation and while in the area of the store where they sell contraceptives I saw that they also sell the Plan B Pill. I was amazed when I asked one of the workers if people need a prescription to buy it and she said no. I then proceeded to ask her how many times can a person go in to buy the plan B pill and she said as many times as they want to. This means that girls can use this as a form of birth control, which is not safe because using it to many times can be dangerous to your body.  The pill should only be used no more than four times or so in ones life time according to my mentor.

2-Hour Video

I choose this video for my two hour presentations, because it is a great example of a media source that parents can use to start conversations with their child about sex education. Which can lead to conversations about STDs and Birth control.

http://pollystreaming.com/American-Dad-Season-1-Episode-9-A-Smith-In-The-Hand_v12734#

GYT

I found a website called "Its your sex life" and it has a campaign called Get Yourself Testes, it is for youth to get tested for STDs. The website provides pdf files of posters, stickers and pamphlets for the Get Yourself Tested campaign. I printed one of the pamphlets for my two hour presentations, I made one pamphlet for every person in my presentations so that they are aware of where they can go get tested for STDs. The pamphlet also gives information in regards to Chlamydia, the most common STD.

Birth Control

While shadowing my mentor physician assistant Emma Cook at the family practice, I watched her do a pap-smear on a young lady. After that we began to talk about pap-smears and she informed me that after the first time you have sexual intercourse no matter what age you need to get a pap-smear within one year. We then began to discuss the different birth controls, and I asked her about patient confidentiality with parents and minors. She informed me that patients as young as twelve years old can go into the clinic and request birth control, without their parents content. Also is the parent goes to ask if their child had been prescribed birth control, they are not allowed to release that information to them.

My mentor informed me that the birth control pill needs to be taken every single day, at the same time every day to keep the women's hormone levels the same. This is the most common type of birth control.

This is the second most common type of birth control, it is birth control in an injection form. Women only need to get the injection once every three months. 

Posters

Finally today I picked up my posters from kinkos. The posters are for my two hour presentation, that are about STDs and have some facts on them aout STD prevention.

This is an example of one of the posters, I did not make them. I found them online. These are like some of the posters that I have seen.