This past week in ISM, I had the opportunity to orient a new team member for my mentor while she was speaking at a conference in Seattle. Because of school and the time consuming nature of the classes that I am taking, I am in the final weeks of my extended summer internship :( Due to the fact that my mentor and her team are all so extremely busy, they hired on a new contractor and I was assigned to be her orientor for a day. It was quite a different experience for me to teach someone who is significantly older than I am about what I do in the office but I think it went pretty well. The whole experience gave me an opportunity to practice articulating processes that I do manually and in my mind in a way that is comprehensible for someone else. One thing that the new hire and I have in common is that we both has very little medical background so the large influx of medical terminology and concepts was something that I had to (and she will need to) get used to. With only a few stumbles throughout the day, I thought that everything went relatively smoothly and I got good feedback from the other women in the office.
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This past week in ISM, I went to the annual ISM Business Symposium which hosts all of the ISM students in FISD schools. At this event, I got to network with other students, have one on one time with ISM 1 students and get interviewed by professionals. For the first three sessions of the day, I spoke with ISM 1 students and offered them some advice on how to navigate through the treacherous ISM waters. In addition to my advice, I also had some good conversations about school in general and the college application process with a couple seniors. For my interview, I didn’t get anyone in my field but it was a very productive interview nonetheless. The woman sitting across from me was a real estate agent and critiqued me on my resume, interview posture (I wasn’t relaxed enough), and advised me to always stay positive when I spoke about myself in an interview setting. I had never really thought about delving into the details of my interview responses but with possible college interviews coming up, practicing interviews is essential. Since it was my second time going, I knew what to look for during my limited time there so I got the most out of it. Overall, I thought that the Business Symposium was a very successful venture and I learned a lot from my experience.
This past week in ISM has been pretty uneventful due to the the fact that it was homecoming week. With marching band season in full swing and last minute preparations for homecoming weekend, my days were full of stress and back to back studying. Now that everything has calmed down for a moment, I hope to get ready for the upcoming Business Symposium and my next mentor visit. Tomorrow, my mentor has invited me to experience the interview process for the next contract worker who will take over my position. This will be a completely different experience for me since I have only ever been involved in student interviews where I am on the interviewee side of the table. I anticipate that I will be able to learn and observe a great deal tomorrow because it will be an entirely new situation I have never experienced before. Adding on to new things in ISM for the upcoming week, at this year’s ISM Business Symposium, I will be meeting other FISD ISM students from the perspective of an ISM 2 Student. This will be wildly different from last year because I am now so much more accustomed to interacting with professionals and having interactive conversations with adults. Additionally, I will have the opportunity to sit one on one with an ISM 1 student and give them some tips and tricks for how I got through my first year of rigorous ISM course work. Despite the business of the fall season, I am very excited for the upcoming weeks and I hope to have much to write about!
This past week in ISM has been pretty uneventful. During these couple of weeks, marching band really takes up a lot of my time so I can’t fully focus on ISM yet. I am still going on mentor visits once a week so I am still keeping in close touch with my mentor despite my busy schedule. Due to the fact that I am in high school and unable to work with my mentor full time, Ellie has begun the hiring process for another contract worker. The twist is that I ALSO am included in the hiring process, except on the same side of the table as Ellie. I will be helping during the interviews and I will be leading the orientation of the new hire when a decision is made. This will be a cool opportunity because being on the side of the interviewer probably won’t happen again until I’m much older and more experienced. Additionally, in the little free time that I do have in ISM class, I have begun to think about a possible original work idea. Seeing as the same medical mission I helped out last year will be going again this year, maybe I’ll be able to help out again (and maybe even go). Being able to serve people in need through my original work was extremely rewarding and so much more motivating than just doing a project for my benefit. Because I am researching a field that is largely centered around the needs of others, I will probably stick to a philanthropic idea even if the medical mission trip doesn’t work out.
This past week in ISM has been relatively uneventful due to the stress of marching band and getting used to the senior year AP course load. I am still going to work for my mentor once a week but once October starts, I will be going twice a week for actual observational mentor visits. I hope to also get in some OR observation time so that I can get more exposed to surgery. In the midst of this college application process, the decision between clinical and administration has been weighing on my shoulders because of major choices. I think that I would like to get an undergrad degree in something not pertaining to biology, chemistry, or biochemistry just so that I can differentiate myself in the medical school application process if it does come down to that. If I decide to not go to medical school, an undergraduate degree in engineering or economics would still be useful for the administrative fields. Even if I decide to not go into healthcare at all, a strong and specific undergraduate degree will help set me up for success in any other field. Sasha Still, a general surgery resident that I met with over the summer, majored in Italian for undergraduate - which is not something very common in the surgical field. Her choice to stray completely from the popular path while still becoming a high achieving medical student showed me that there can more to surgery than just the books and medicine you study for 17 years of your life.
The start of my ISM 2 journey has officially begun but it doesn’t really feel like a new year. This past Summer, I interned with my ISM 1 mentor and worked in the cardiovascular service line offices in Baylor Heart & Vascular Hospital in Dallas. It was an absolutely amazing experience because I was able to sit in on governance council meetings, meet people that can greatly impact my future, and learn professional skills that will help me in college and in my own professional career. One big opportunity that I was presented with this summer was to have a one on one conversation with the president of The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano- the best heart hospital in Texas. I’ve decided to stick with the same mentor I had last year because I realized that I really enjoyed her expertise and advice along with the numerous opportunities she presented me with. I felt that building off of the relationship we built last year and the projects that we worked on last year would be more beneficial to my research than starting new with someone else. Since my internship from the Summer wasn’t fully complete when school started, I have continued to go down to Dallas every week for a couple hours a day. However, at the start of October, my mentor visits will be cut down to once every 2 weeks and I will start my observational mentor visits. Over the course of the next month, I hope to begin planning my original work so that I can begin working on it to avoid cramming over winter break.
This past week in ISM I went on a mentor visit on Tuesday, March 27th. During this visit, I sat in on 2 different meetings- each of which displayed a different aspect of business that is involved with hospital administration. The first meeting centered around event planning and was somewhat easy for me to follow along and understand because I have been exposed to event planning before and I have, many times in the past, been the person organizing the little details that go into planning a successful event. The second meeting was a lot harder to follow because it consisted of language that I was not familiar with and a concept that I was not familiar with either. In the meeting, they were discussing risk assessment and the coding responsible for making the formulas and tables that would display the risk assessment information effectively. Although the details of the meeting are a blur in my mind, I understood that the work in hospital administration requires a wide range of skills and a willingness to always learn. Additionally, my mentor and I discussed ways to further my final product to meet the number of required hours so I will work towards completing my final product in the next coming weeks.
This past week in ISM has been pretty uneventful. I finished what I was assigned to do as part of my final product on the Saturday before spring break so I have not done anything else for my ISM in the meantime. I have a mentor visit scheduled for tomorrow so I will see what else I can do to further my final product and maybe add on to the same project that I finished earlier. As of right now, I have 19 out of the 25 required hours logged for my final product so I am ahead of schedule. I am very excited to get feedback about the success of my packets in Peru and if they helped the surgeons at all with patient communication. I really enjoyed working on the project and it warmed my heart knowing that what I was doing was going to better someone else’s life.
Somewhat connected to ISM is the possible internship that my mentor has offered me for this upcoming summer! Hopefully everything will work out because I am very excited for that opportunity and I can’t even imagine the experience that I will have being able to work in a real life, professional, hospital environment. The past two weeks in ISM have been very busy. Since last week was Spring Break, most of my ISM-related work was completed before I left for my family’s annual ski trip. I made my final presentation invitations and completed a final product progress assessment the Friday before spring break and on Saturday, I completed the patient education packet that I was asked to put together by my mentor and her team along with surgeons volunteering to go on the Peru trip. I spent a pretty substantial amount of that Saturday adding in the rest of the information that I needed and translating it into Spanish. Some of the topics that I included in the packet was background information on valvular disease, coronary artery disease, heart health 101, incision care, suggested exercises, facts about the heart and a diagram, and cautionary advice. Since I am not fluent in Spanish I found the best Spanish translator I could find and translated the whole packet as best I could so that it could be useful to the patients in Peru. Overall, I am very proud of my work and I can’t wait to see what else I am able to accomplish during my independent study.
This past week in ISM, I went on my second mentor visit. My mentor and one of her other team members were the only ones at the office that day and had no idea that I was scheduled to come. Fortunately, they were very adaptable and incorporated me into their activities for the day. Oddly enough, my unexpected appearance served to be a learning experience for me and a teaching experience for my mentor because I learned about the importance of adaptability in the professional world and especially in healthcare administration. Because my mentor was not prepared for my arrival, the interviews that we had planned to set up with the some of the surgeons going on the Peru trip were not scheduled during my time at the hospital. However, Mrs. Huff introduced us over email so that we could begin communicating about my contribution to the planning. Surprisingly, Dr. Patel, one of the surgeons, informed us that the trip was happening on March 17th instead of in the summer as we had originally thought. This means that I will not be able to get my whole project done before the trip actually starts and will need to modify my plans. I believe I will still be able to make the project plan I originally planned, but it will be for the 2019 year instead of this year’s trip.
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