Over all.

Since I did not have enough time to blog about my time I met up with my mentor, I am going to put the rest of my hours in one blog instead of doing separately. Although I did not have enough time to blog, at the end of each time I met up with her, she made me a do a reflection about what I did so I was able see how much I progressed from beginning to end.

March 10, 2013: 4 hours; 9 hours total.
Today, I met up with my Ellysa, and we discussed the many different diseases people can recieve through the eye, we talked about diseases such as cataracts, glacoma, . She wanted me to educate myself before I was to shadow her because it was always best to know these certain facts and how people can get that, and how to treat them if they can be treated. I learned cataracts is when there is a cloudiness inside the eyelense, and is usually one of the common causes of blindness. Glacoma is another severe eye disease that is damaged in a particular pattern. There are many other eye diseases, and my mentor told me I should know about that first so I am more well-known about them and because they are good to know in general.

March 12, 2013: 4 hours; 13 hours total.
On Tuesday, I was able to meet up with my mentor. We discussed the different diseases I searched up the previous session I had with her before. And we also discussed how they happen. We mainly talked about what do I have to major in after high school and what classes I need to take to become an opthamologist. As an opthamologist, I must be able to complete the following requirements: 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, and one more year of internship. The requirements were overwhelming to me because it seemed like there would be a lot I would have to go through to get to where I need to be. I found my session with my mentor quite useful because she was able to take the time to not only educate me but to tell me exactly what I need to know and do.

April 2, 2013: 2 hours; 15 hours total.
I met up with my mentor, and I finally got to shadow her & her patients. Before I did she notified me that Kaiser Permanente is very strict and that they don't allow students to do anything else but to shadow. I was a little bit disappointing with it because I was looking forward with helping Ellysa with her patients and to do a little bit of she does. Although I wasn't able to have my turn with the patients, she did in fact tell me that shadowing her is all I need to know to understand exactly what she does without even having to be in her position. This made me realize that I have to pay attention carefully and to pay attention to the small details very closely. I was only able to complete two hours with her today because she had to leave early.

April 23, 2013: 5 hours, 20 hours total. 
I did a total of 5 hours with my mentor today. By this time I got the the hang of her appointments with her pattients and how they work.

April 30, 2013: 5 hours, 25 hours total.
By this time I have hours with my mentor. She also decided to some other stuff to research on in my own time, which adds an additional set of hours to my over all. With a total of 27.