Exit Interview

okay, that's not true but there were a few times that I just wanted to give up because I was so tired

1. What is your essential question and what are your answers? What is your best answer and why?
Essential question: How can a team of medical professionals ensure the health and well-being of a patient?
Answer 1: Educate the patient **BEST ANSWER, YO!**
Answer 2: Give proper analysis and diagnosis
Answer 3: Provide patient-centered care

2. What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
At first, it seemed like each answer could be easily labeled "best answer" because of how it relates to the patient. To put it simply, I reviewed the differences between each answer and then chose the one with the most weight on improving a patient's recovery.

3. What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?
I did not really face any problems in the research aspect of my senior project. I did, however, lose one of my mentors after he flaked on me during my Independent Component 2 with him. Fortunately, my other mentor was able to refer me to another medical professional, a general surgeon, who was willing and happy to be my mentor for the rest of my senior project.

4. What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
The two most significant sources that I used to answer my essential question would probably be two of my last few sources:
• The Challenge of Patient Adherence by Leslie R. Martin
This article was very well written and did not only discuss the problem of lack of patient adherence but also discussed ways to improve patient adherence. In addition, it covered two of my answers (educate the patient and provide patient-centered care)

• Strategies to Enhance Patient Adherence by Susan R. Levy, Naresh Bellam, and Ashish Atreja
The authors of this article did research and tested various methods with different groups of patients of various medical cases to see which methods were most efficient. Although, the authors didn't go as in-depth as I wanted them to on providing patient-centered care, they did expand quite a lot on providing the proper diagnosis and treatment and educating the patient.