Final Site Visit Questions

Did you meet your goals?

I kind of did meet the goals. I learned how an office works.

What are the most important things you’ve learned?

I learned you should always keep records, because you never know when you needed.

In what ways have your grown?

I think I have grown academically and mentally by learning new names and I saw some stuff that teached me some thing new.

What were the highlights of your internship experience?

The highlights are that I enjoyed working there and learned new names that I already forgot. I also enjoyed working there.

If you can, describe a memorable moment or experience.

Mostly all the momets were memorable.

What challenges did you overcome?

There was no challenge, filing is easy but boring.

What advice would you give a new intern at this site?

The advice I want to give an intern is that work hard and enjoy, get a life exprience.

What will you miss about your internship?

I will all the workers and my boss. And I will miss bothering them.

Daily post synthesis

OLD: Filed papers and made copies.

OLD: Filing and pulled out some charts.

NEW: Saw x-rays being done.

NEW: Filing

Interview

1. What is your full name?

Linda Fox the Director of Spine & Arthritis center.

2. Where are you from?

She is from Brooklyn.

3. Where did you go to college? For how long? Do you plan to go back to school?

Went to Brooklyn college and Staten Island college. 4 years in Brooklyn and 1 1/2 in Staten Island. Got BA from Brooklyn and second degree at Staten Island didnt finish it, and she plan to go back to school.

4. (If the interviewee went to college)…What was your major in college and what kind of degree do you earn?

Her major was Psychology. A BA degree.

5. Why did you choose that field?

She was going for PHD in psychology so she can do behavorial psychology. ( study of human behavior.)

6. What got you involved in this field of work? What inspired you to do it?

She took a class of psycology in college and was interesting, so she wanted to know more. The topic was intersting.

7. Why did you choose this job?

Because it lets her use all of her skills.

8. How long have you worked here?

She ahs been working here for 10 years.

9. What is your job title?

The director of Spine & Arthrisis center.

10. What do your duties include? Or What kinds of work does your job involve?

Superwice the 14 people inverious positions in an orthopedic office. The work that is involved communications with hospital patient and stuffs.

11. What are some of the challenges you have faced working here?

Motivating employies, satecefying patients, incompleteing work and completing work on time.

12. What is the best part of your job?

Working with people in hospital.

13. What is something you would like to change about your job?

The hours.

14. Did you work somewhere else before this job? Where? For how long? How was that similar/different?

Yes she was a pirvate investigator in Manhattan for 12 years. It was different, but it utilized her skills.

15. What do you see as your future with this company?

She see herself working on more special projects.

16. Do you enjoy the kind of work you do?

She enjoy the work she does.

17. Do you plan to open your own business one day?

Maybe in a different area.

18. How has having an intern helped your company or organization advance or progress?

It was a wonderful having this intern, he was very helpful. And made the time for us to do the other things we couldnt do and did the things we didnt have time to do.

19. What advice would you give to high school-aged interns (such as myself) getting ready for college and then the real world?

Do something that you love, work hard, and remember all the work you do is investment in yourself.

Pre-Inteview thinking

-Who do you want to interview?
I want to interview my boss.

-What do you already know about that person? (their name, where they are from, how old they are, what their job is...)
Her name is Linda, I think she is in her 40's or 50's. She is the boss of my office.

-What do you want to know about that person? (how they got their job, where they went to school, how long they were in school...)
Where they are from?
What was there favorite subject?
Did they go to high in USA? AND MUCH MORE BUT CANT THINK OF IT.

Daily Post 5/01

Today I did not go to my internship because I had a bad headachae and I was not feeling good.

Daily Post 4/30

Today I went to my internship. I couldnt sign in cause the people were not there. So then I went to the cafteria and then to my building where I work. I went in and said hi to everyone. Then I got some papers and I start filing. I filed and then took a short break and called Waqar on his cell. Then I went back to filing and at 4 I came home.

Daily Post 4/29

Today I went to my internship. I signed in and went to my other building where I work. I walked in and said hi to everyone and I start filing. I filed and at 2:30 I went to check mail. I came back and went back on filing. Then at 4 I came home.

Daily Post 4/28

Today I went to my internship. I signed in and went to eat lunch. I ate and went back to the building where I work. I went in and said hi, and pulled out some charts for tomorrow. And then I took a 2 minute break and start filing again. Then it was 4 and I came home.

Three Week Voc

1. Word / Phrase: Foramen

Meaning: an opening, orifice, or short passage, as in a bone or in the integument of the ovule of a plant.

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2. Word / Phrase: Organelle

Meaning: A differentiated structure within a cell, such as a mitochondrion, vacuole, or chloroplast, that performs a specific function.

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3. Word / Phrase: Bacillus

Meaning: Any of various rod-shaped, usually gram-positive aerobic bacteria of the genus Bacillus that often occur in chains and include Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax.

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4. Word / Phrase: Chlorpheniramine

Meaning: an antihistaminic compound, C20H23ClN2O4, used in treating the symptoms of allergies.


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5. Word / Phrase: Dementia

Meaning: severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.

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6. Word / Phrase: Ecthyma

Meaning: a contagious viral disease of sheep and goats and occasionally of humans, marked by vesicular and pustular lesions on the lips.

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7. Word / Phrase: Epiphysis

Meaning: a part or process of a bone separated from the main body of the bone by a layer of cartilage and subsequently uniting with the bone through further ossification.

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8. Word / Phrase: Epistasis

Meaning: a form of interaction between nonallelic genes in which one combination of such genes has a dominant effect over other combinations.

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9. Word / Phrase: Neurosis

Meaning: Any of various mental or emotional disorders, such as hypochondria or neurasthenia, arising from no apparent organic lesion or change and involving symptoms such as insecurity, anxiety, depression, and irrational fears, but without psychotic symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations. No longer in scientific use.

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10. Word / Phrase: Subluxation

Meaning: a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.

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11. Word / Phrase: Ectoderm

Meaning: the outer germ layer in the embryo of a metazoan.

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12. Word / Phrase: Endoderm

Meaning: the innermost body tissue that derives from this layer, as the gut lining.

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13. Word / Phrase: Mesoderm

Meaning: The middle embryonic germ layer, lying between the ectoderm and the endoderm, from which connective tissue, muscle, bone, and the urogenital and circulatory systems develop.


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14. Word / Phrase: Osteomalacia

Meaning: A disease occurring mostly in adult women that results from a deficiency in vitamin D or calcium and is characterized by a softening of the bones with accompanying pain and weakness.

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15. Word / Phrase: Osteochondrosis

Meaning: a disease of bone and cartilage growth centers in children that begins as a necrosis and is followed by regeneration or renewed calcification.


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Daily Post 4/24

Today I went to my internship. It was the last for me to make up the hours. I went in I said hi to everyone. I got papers to file. I filed them. Then I went to check and drop the mail. Then I went back to filing. Then at 12:45 I took a lunch break. I came back from it and then I answered some phone calls. Some of the callers want to make opintment and some want to talk to the doctors assitent. And then I filed some charts and then it was 4. I came home.

Daily Post 4/23

Today I went to my internship. I signed in and went to the my main building. I walked in and said hi to everyone there. Then I got papers to file. I filed them. And then I made some copies of some records. And then I took a short break for 10 minutes. Then I took the mail and went to the other building to drop it. I came back and did little bit more of filing. Then I went back to the main building across the street to get a paitents x-rays. And I came back gave them and went back to filing and then it was 4 and I came home.

Daily Post 4/22

Today I went to my internship at 8:10. I reached there 8:55. I signed in and went to my building to work. As I walk in I say hi and then they give me papers to file. I file papers for 2 hours. Then I made copies of some papers. And then I pulled out charts for Thursday for 2 different doctors. Then I took a lunch break. When I came back I faxed some papers. And did more filing. And I faxed few more papers and then it was 4 and I came home.

Daily Post 4/21

Today I went to my internship. I did 7 hours. In those 6 hours and 20 minutes I did filing. When I was there at 9:15 they gave me papers to file. I filed them and more. Then at 12:45 I took a short lunch break. When I came back mor filing and then I had to go to the basement to pull out a chart and that I couldnt find. And at 4 I came home. And now I will have to go tomorrow and do the same file.

Midpoint Reflection Questions

How has the internship been the same as and/or different than your expectations?

I really didnt imagine how my internship would be, but I thought it would be tough or fun but it was ok in the beginning and now is getting boring.

What is similar and different about the culture of the school environment versus the workplace environment? What new skills have you learned that apply to the workplace?

The difference I see is that there no one giving you lessons about everything. There are things that you do at your own. For now I just do filing or coping so based on that what skill could I have learn.

What kind of relationship do you have with your mentor and co-workers? How have you grown as a result of interacting with professional adults?

My relationship with my mentor and co-worker is good so far they trust me and everything. I think as a result I am interacting with professional adults.


What challenges at the internship have you faced that you have overcome and how did you overcome them?

There is no challenge yet how can filing be a problem.

What challenges have you faced in school as a result of the altered schedule and how are you handling them?

I didnt face a challenge yet in school so I dont know what to say.

What goals are you working to accomplish during the remainder of the internship?

I am hoping to get something out of a good experience about life and much more.

What new things have you learned about New York City?

I have learned that if you now bussinessmen or women and you need to get hooked up with job or stuff like that they can hook you up.

Vocabulary

1. Word / Phrase:Myopathy

Meaning: any abnormality or disease of muscle tissue.

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2. Word / Phrase: Jaundice

Meaning: Yellowish discoloration of the whites of the eyes, skin, and mucous membranes caused by deposition of bile salts in these tissues. It occurs as a symptom of various diseases, such as hepatitis, that affect the processing of bile. Also called icterus.

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3. Word / Phrase: Peevish

Meaning: easily made angry; irritable; frequently complaining

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4. Word / Phrase: Dypnea

Meaning: difficult or labored breathing.

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5. Word / Phrase: Sympathetic nervous system

Meaning: The part of the autonomic nervous system originating in the thoracic and lumbar regions of the spinal cord that in general inhibits or opposes the physiological effects of the parasympathetic nervous system, as in tending to reduce digestive secretions, speeding up the heart, and contracting blood vessels.


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Daily Post 4/2

I went to. Then I went to my internship. I signed in. Then I went to my other building where I work. I went in and said hi to everyone. Then I start filing. Then I went to my boss and told her I am leaving for 2 weeks. Then I went back to filing. And then i went to mail room and got the mail. And then it was 4 o'clock. And I went to the other building to sign out and then went home.

Daily Post 4/1

Today I woke I went to school. Then I went to my internship. I went in to the building where I sign in, I signed in and went to my building. I said hi to everyone I was so happy today when I went to the internship. Then I asked my boss if I need to go get the mail from the main building. She said yes. I went there got the mail. And then I went to the cafiteria to see Samim. I met him and then went back to my building. Then I started filing again. Then at 3:45 I went to drop a book at the hospital library for my boss. Then at 4 I went back to my signing building and signed out. Then took F train and then switched to Q and reached home safily.

PLEASE!!!!

Today Beside Internship I had my fingers crossed the whole time, cant tell why though. But good luck to myself. Thank you thank you......

Daily Post 3/31

Today I woke up, went to school. I went to my colloge class then my two regular classes one period each. Then I went to my internship with Samim. I went in the building where I sign in, then I went to lunch. I ate and went to my main building where I work. As I walked in I said hi to everyone and went to my boss room. She told me I have to look for some charts pull them out, find their tell phone number and write them down. I did that and then I like always I end up doing filings. And then at the end I went down to put two posters in front of the my building where I work, the posters were about the work shop held on April 6 Sunday. Then it was 4 I went to the other building I signed out and came home.

Daily Post 3/27

Today I woke up, took a hot shower. I got dressed and I went to school. I had college class today. Then I went to my Science class and then my English second period. Then me and Samim went together to the train station took the train and reached at 7 ave safeily. Then we went into the building where we always go to sign in and then Yuri, Sergey and Marina came. We all went to Lunch, but Sergey didn't go. Then we ate and went to our working places. Me and Yuri work in the same building and same floor and oppisite rooms. I had to do filing again, but my boss told me to go drop the mail and check if there is any mail in the main hospital/ building. I went, drop the mail came back with an evelope. Then filing again. Then I did one pile. Then my boss told me to look for a patients X-rays. I couldn't find it because it was not there. I told her and she sent me to the other building to bering some small boxes. I went there and brought them back. I did a little bit of filing/ Then it was 4 time for me to go home. I went to the other building to sign out. I did that and went home with Yuri, Samim, Sergey, and Marina.

Daily Post 3/26

Today is Wednesday. I reached school at 9 o'clock. Then I went to class at 9:20. After 2 periods. I got out to go to my Internship. I went there safily I signed in and went to lunch. Ms Carol was coming today. After lunch i went bcack my building. And said hi to everyone. Then my boss Linda told me that she will give me some numbers to call them and ask them how many people are coming to sunday open house. Then it was like 10 people who were coming and then I was back at filing. Then after like half an hour Ms.Carol came and I gave her little tour and then she spoke to my boss Linda. Then she came back to me and she wanted to ask me some questoins, but I told her I will talk to her on Monday. And she said ok. She left and I was working hard on filing. I couldnt wait till it was 4. Then finally it was 4. I went in to the other building to sign out. Then i reached home.

Daily Post 3/25

Today I woke up took shower and went to college class. Then at 11:35 I got out of school to go to my internship. Me and samim went together. I took the L to Broadway then A to Jay and then F to 7 ave. I went in to sign in and got a pass to eat lunch. Me, Samim and Marina went and ate lunch. Then I went to my building where I work. I went in there I said hi to everyone there. Then agian the boring stuff filing. And for the rest of the time I justed filed. Then at 4 i left signed out and went home.

Daily post 3/24

I went to my internship from school with my friends. I reached there safeily. I signed in, then me and Samim, Marina went to eat lunch. I came back and start filing. After 1/2 hour past my boss came and told me to make copies of some charts.
I also was talking to people that work there. At 4 I left and came home.

Weekly Vocabulary 1

1. Word / Phrase: Mallows

Meaning: it is a flower used in medicine.

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2. Word / Phrase: Syndesmotic

Meaning: a connection of bones by ligaments, fasciae, or membranes other than in a joint.

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3. Word / Phrase: Dorsiflexion

Meaning: the act of bending backward (of the body or a body part)

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4. Word / Phrase: Plontor

Meaning: relating to or occurring on the undersurface of the foot; "plantar warts can be very painful"

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5. Word / Phrase: Eschar

Meaning: A dry scab or slough formed on the skin as a result of a burn or by the action of a corrosive or caustic substance.

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February 15 Qustions

- Tell a little about yourself.

My name is Azib Shahzad. I am from Pakistan. I like to hang outside with my cousins, play sports, and enjoy my life.

- What did you learn in the junior internship seminar class up to this point?

I learned that I will have to work hard to live. And life is not going to be easy.

- What is your greatest fear about internship?

My greatest fear is that I hope I dont fail.

- What is your greatest hope for the internship?

My greatest is that I will get something out of this internship.

- What is your internship site and what are you going to do there? If you do not know, what do you think you will be doing?

My internship site is a hopspital.

- What will you miss about going to high school as you normally did for the last 2.5 years?

I will miss going home with my cousins and seeing them after every period and off course seeing and bothering my teachers.

Second Week Part 2

This is a supplemental assignment for your second week.

What did you do during your second week?

I was doing the same thing Idid the first week filing and a new job was to pull out the charts.

How was it different than the first week?

The way it was different Idid not get screamed at on monday like last time, other wise everything was pretty the same. And there are two bosses ONE IS DEVIL....... AND THE OTHER IS AN ANGEL!!!!!!!

What is something that you really like about the internship?

I dont really have anything in my mind but I'll get something soon.

What is something you dislike about the internship?

The thing i dislike ahhhh that i dont get BREAKS!!!!!!!

Who else's blog have your read and commented on?

Third Week

Describe one significant activity or project that you have completed or are working on currently. BE DESCRIPTIVE! Give as much specific detail as you can. Elaborate. Explain. Expound. Delineate. Illustrate. Use a lot of words. Treat this like an English class writing assignment. Use complete sentences with correct grammar and punctuation.
FOR YOUR BLOGDescribe one significant activity or project that you have completed or are working on currently.

I do different projects at the same day. But one is that I went to my interinship. My mentor print out names of people I think were paitents. I had to pull out their charts. I have like 5 doctors in my office so I had to see in which room were this doctors chart. I dont really know the names of the doctors but i know that there are 5 different color of folders ( green, light brown, cream color, purple, and yellow). I had to pull out green ones. There were around thirty charts(floders) I had to get. I found the room, there was other 3 people working, the workers. I was talikng to them and at the same time I was pulling out the charts. I pulled them out in 40 minutes. Then I gave the charts to my mentor and she gave me papers to file. And there are alot of other project I did.

First week of Internship

What is it?
it a doctor office where i file papers.

What kind of business is it and what kind of work do the professionals do there?
it is a doctor office, doctors and paientes come there.

Where is it?
it is in Brooklyn New York, 7 ave and 6st.

Tell a little about your mentor.
my mentor are nice.

What happened on the first day?
i got screamed at cause i was wearing jeans.

What kinds of things have you done so far?
i have done filing and coping papers.

What were some of the highlights of the first week?
(Memorable moments, cool things...)
nothing for now, but everything is good.


Please answer some logistical questions...

When do you leave school?
i leave school at 11:45

How long does it take you to get to your internship?
it take an hour to get there.

When do you arrive at home?
i arrive home between 4:45 to 5 o'clock.

What is your schedule? (What days do you work and for how long each day?)
my schedule is go to school then internship and then home.

Who are the two people that can sign your time card? (Your mentor and the additional person)
my mentor can sing the paper or my co-worker (Misty or Rebecca/Linda).