Log: Every Wednesday, beginning February 16 (1:00 pm - 6:00 pm)
Contact:
Baldwin Park Medical Group, (626) 338-4088
Clinica Medica del Sol Group, Inc., (626) 918-3828
Interpretive:
My service learning taught me quite a bit. Throughout this experience I realized the importance of being bilingual. I shadowed at a predominantly Hispanic area, and I found it difficult sometimes to understand what nurses or doctors had to say. Of course, they weren't speaking to me in Spanish, but when they were speaking to their patients I had a difficult time understanding. This is not to say that I was eavesdropping or going against the HIPPA code (though I'm not sure that applies to all medical clinics), I just tried to listen and observe the dynamics of a clinic.
There were occasions where I was allowed to call clients and make appointments. I helped a bit, but I couldn't do much else since I'm not trained, certified, registered, etc. Anyway, calling clients is what made me realize the importance of knowing another language... some of them spoke to me in Spanish and I was clueless and they hung up on me.
Another thing I learned through service learning was how to file medical records. It's a simple task, really. I just alphabetize files, put it in correct order. Alphabetizing is time consuming, and I often wish I could use a computer to file, but I learned that it's costly to do something like that.
Applied:
Shadowing at a medical clinic has given me insight as tho how extensive medical history can be. Every little detail is in a patient's file. It's given me insight as to how extensive a file of history can be for one person. All that I learned and read about in my medical textbook was there. It was difficult to make sense of the information, but at least I was exposed to it so I have an idea of how medical history is supposed to be documented along with how it's used. Usually the nurses fill in the stats, while the doctor is the one to actually treat and diagnose the patient.
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