Blog 14: Independent Component #1

LITERAL
a.)"I, Ian Kam, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work."

b.)My mentor Andrea Haston DPT, ATC, helped me complete this component by allowing me to shadow her at Casa Colina.

c.) See hours log.

d.) My independent component was 30 extra hours of mentorship.

INTERPRETIVE
There's only so much you can get out of looking up articles and reading medical journals. Nothing really beats the real thing when it comes to medical knowledge. Annie is very passionate about what she does and is very accommodating when I tell her the requirements of my senior project. Every time I go in to do mentorship I learn a little more about anatomy, patient care, and patient relations, all of which are invaluable to forming answers to my EQ. I don't really have physical evidence of my experience, but you can contact my mentor and confirm with her that I put in the hours.

APPLIED
Well the foundation of PT lies in education, and applying knowledge of the body and it's systems to help people get better. I'm not really sure how to provide an example of how my understanding was improved; I'm guessing that would be reflected in my Lesson #2 and Final Presentation grades? I've learned that patient education is key, and that effective care in PT is dependent on both the health care professional's intervention and the health care consumer's compliance and understanding of what's going on. I don't know if that's a good answer. I guess because ALL knowledge pertaining to physical therapy is applied knowledge it's sort of difficult to answer.