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1. What you study in high school, college and beyond.
finish high school, 4 years of college, and 4 years of dental school. the subject that he studies are sciences, math, biology, physic and variety of other things.

2. How much schooling do you need.?
8 years after high school.

3. Study:
He continue education, do a lot of studying, read journals, and articcle then do research. (he say that even though he a dentist but he still doing more research to know more into his career)

4. Specific day
- He in a team, doing exam and filling. Extraction, root canal, take out teeth for the patient.

5. Like bout their career?
Variety, steady income/helping people/ health professional/ help poor people with low income to have more better health.

6. Dislike?
patient complain, money 1/100 grieve.

7. Change, if they could change?
He want to be a specialist, need to do it when young

8. Tips for college?
Do all the reading before go to lecutre. Be prepare for the proffesor, cuz you might learn something new because you already knows hat he talk about. For study skills, organization is important. Busy divide work, some dental do need assistant to help. They are busy because they have 3/4 chairs that wait for them. He write up lab and do stuff for typical day.

1. What you study in high school, college and beyond.
She finish high school, go to college and graduate school. She studies sciences, biology, microbiology, embriology and other science courses.

2. How much schooling do you need.?
She finish 8 years include in college and graduate school. Then she do 2 more years of residental where she do extra education and spend time in the hospital to work and do procedures.

3. Specific day
She speak to patient everyday/communication, study very hard, and volunteer activity. She volunteer in refugee, teaching them about teeth, and the important to become a health care providers is to prove that you like people.

4. Like bout their career?
She is satisfying of what she does. She like to talk to people and see people's heath improves, and she got to see different of ethnicity around.

5. Dislike?
She doesn't dislike anything __**Questions for the dental assistant:**__ 1. What you study in high school, college and beyond. Dental assistant need to graduate from high school and some of them go to 2 years college to become a D.A. Some do specific training and if they want to become a dentist they ahve to have a bachelor degree and graduate school. 2. How much schooling do you need.? They have additional school called EDDA, where they got to do more practice on their skills. they say that they did not do drilling but do other procedure. 3. Study: They have to study and know the equipments. 4. Specific day They help cleaing teeth, doing floss, brush, put medicine in the space between the teeth after the dentist finish taking out cavity. 5. Like bout their career? They like doing the fillings, help people look better with their teeth, make the patient feel better. 6. Dislike? Longer appointment 7. Change, if they could change? Salary, do a lot of the work but in the nonprofit clinic, they have least salary. //The clinic is small but the people that work in there really friendly, they support and help each other. I ask them some questions about what do they do if their day don't have a lot of patient. They tell me they drinking coffee and surf up the net. The dental office is small, they have about 5 rooms, three rooms for doing the procedure and two room is the office. and the front desk. Sometime I was wondering what is the dentist do when they go into their office, because I went to dentist and after that they went into their office. The assistant told me that they written up paper and fill up the chart.//
 * Time is end so I didn't get to ask her for the success skill**
 * __Overall and what I've learned:__**

**4/1/09 South Aurora Clinic (MCPN) shadowing**

 * __I follow an M.A so I interview her because the M.D are busy__**

1. What you study in high school, college and beyond.
9 months after high school 2. How much schooling do you need.? She went under specific training. 3. Specific day She check pressure/pulse/temp? (vital signs) and get patient to the room and get them ready for the provider. They prepare the patient for the procedure/and they do pH scale. 4. Like bout their career? She like to help people 5. Dislike? She doesn't have any dislike. 6. Change, if they could change? She would go into become a M.D 7. Tips for college? She tell me that to become what she does today need a lot of determination/ self-independent/responsibility of what she doe. the way you treat peple (provides cares) 8. Important that I need to know -patient's care - Study alot/ do homework/ be more on detail study for 5 hours. - More practive more better - Learn by doing the procedures./ learn different things __**then I rotate with a friend at the counter to know more what she does.**__
 * //She tell me about her family history and how she determine to become a helper when she grown up, her story is so touching, and she is really nice that she teaches me how to do blood pressure on a patient and there I learned a lot from her. She tell me what she do when she get into a patient and what to do when she go into the room to do the procedure. She show me the schedule and all of the equipments and what is need when this patient have this disease or others.//**

1. The accounter help pulled the next day schedule/faxes/mailed/appointment/scanning/put charger away.
If there are new patient she need to schedule half an hour before the actual time incase the weather changes, traffic, or paperwork. Old patients is 15 minutes earlier before there actual time because they have to fill out the forms. 2. Specific day Do scheduling/ filed up, and check for lab schedule and appointment not to overlap of the M.D schedule. 3. Like bout their career? She liked her job because it organize. She tell me that organziation is important in anywhere that I want to be. __**Overall and what I've learned:**__ //South MCPN clinic is totally different from teh dentist. People are busy and there are so much to do. I have to wait for the M.D to finish check up. There are some special don't provide shadower to come into the operate room due to the condition of the patient and safety for everybody.//

Question and answer for the MCPN orientation day: 1.What population is served by MCPN Clinics? -when we do the orientation, the man tell us that MCPN clinic have 13 locations. It non-profit clinic. 2. How are the clinics organized? -in MCPN there are 4 apartments of organization, they are the clinical departments, community service department, data and individual do special project. 3.Who makes the overall decisions for the clinic? -The clinic operation manager, where they incharge and send in to the vice president then to the president. 4.Why is Community Outreach important? -Community Outreach is important because is where the relationship and trust between the patient and the providers or even include with the people work at the clinic to be albe to contact and help each other. A community is where overall project of helthcare could appliable. 5.Why is confidentiality so important? -Confidentiality so important because is teach health education, Where health provide educated to understand the medical field's language. Confidentially gives the patient the secure when come to the clinic, everybody have to know what they doing to be able to help the patient out. 6.What is HIPAA? -A HIPPA is the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act. where is the transection code set of privacy of the patient and the insurance people. Patient have the right to keep their health information and record privacy. HIPPA is the rule of the people in the hospital or anywhere in a health care situation have to sign two pages contract. Where they agree to keep the paitent's record close to the outsider and the patient has the right to their admendment. 7.What is Financial Intake? -Financial intake is where the medicaid and medicare and other different type of healthcare that help paid for the patient 8.What kind of paperwork would a patient need to fill out to be seen here? -The patitnet have to fill out different type of form, if they don't have any insurance they have to filled out the form. There are different type of main program that the clinci have and they will help the patients to get the right one that provided them the opportunity to be able to go check their heatlh status. 9.What kinds of questions would the Customer Care Center handle? -The Costumer Care Center handle all of kind of questions about where they should get this and how they go to this. All of the little quesitona bout appointment and all of the little thing that the patient have that need to answer. They will shedule or prepare the operation. 10.What is an M.A.? -An M.A is the medical assistant 11.What kinds of things do they do? -They help the providers to treat the patient. They help doing all of the vital sign and get the patient ready for the provider 12.What is a P.A.? -physician assistant (P.A.) is a licensed health professional who practices medicine under the supervision of a physician. A physician assistant provides a broad range of health care services that were traditionally performed by a doctor. 13.What kinds of things do they do? -They can provide approximately 80 percent of the services typically provided by a family physician. They perform physical exams, diagnose illnesses, develop and carry out treatment plans, order and interpret lab tests, suture wounds, assist in surgery, provide preventive health care counseling, and in 39 states, including Maine, can write prescriptions. A P.A. can do whatever is delegated to him/her by the supervising physician and allowed by law. In most states, a P.A. can treat patients when the physician is away from the practice. 14.How are they different from Physicians? -Physician assistants are trained in the medical model. In some schools they attend many of the same classes as medical students. One of the main differences between P.A. education and physician education is not the core content of the curriculum but the amount of time spent in school. The length of a P.A. program is about two thirds that of medical school. Physicians also are required to do an internship, and the majority also complete a residency in a specialty; P.A.'s do not have to undertake an internship or residency. A doctor has complete responsibility for the care of the patient; P.A.'s share that responsibility with the doctors. Doctors are independent practitioners; P.A.'s practice medicine under the supervision of a physician. 15.What is a Bull Pen? -A Bull Pen is the counter where the people checking of the schedule and exam and help them go through all of the application to the medical center 16.What happens there? -When patient came in for a check in, they incharge of helping them reschedule for the next exams, and help them to a provider that they need. 18.What is the difference between a Pharmacist and a Pharmacy Tech? -A Pharmacist - take an intepretor, data of birth - correct patient - allergy -drug - Tell what what the techinician have to do with their drugs. Pharmacy Tech- take prescription, ask patient, if they have any allergy or not. Enter into the software program in teh computer. 19.What are the various jobs in Dentistry? -In the dental office there are the D.A which incharge of cleaning the patient teeth first, they the one who clean up afterward, and they the one that put the equipments got used into the machine to help clean out the bacteria and cavity. 20.What did you like most about today? -I like the most is to go around and see different apartment and tour around the clinic to see the doctors and patients. 21. Did any one person stand out to you? -There are a lot of people stand out to me like the young doctor, she doing the diabetes test for me and my partner. 22.What part of Health Care interests you most? -I'm interest in the surgical, even though the clinic doesn't have any surgical activity but I like the family practicioner and the dentist.