Senior Project Update

       Since I completed my project during the summer as I spent a week in the Dominican Republic with Somos Amigos Medical Missions, translating (and recording data from each patient visit) in a medical clinic for a pediatrician, I have not done a whole lot for my senior project in the last few weeks. In the next week I will need to get in touch with my mentor (the Executive Director and Founder of Somos Amigos) to complete the mentor contract. Keeping in touch with my mentor may be a bit tricky - everything will need to be done over the internet since my mentor lives in Seattle. 
       This week I will also need to conduct the interview. Although I verbally asked him many questions about the organization and when/how it was founded, back in June, I will ask him questions that pertain more to my project. This will include questions regarding the average age of the patients we saw throughout the week in June and their illnesses (since formal data was recorded), and I will inquire about the amount of surgeries that Somos Amigos provides for children (specifically those that I translated for). I will also ask him some more basic information about the start of the organization, and what his inspiration was for founding the clinic.
        I will also begin to compile research about health in the Dominican Republic, with an emphasis on health in rural areas for my research paper. I plan on including details about the cost, availability, and overall level of their healthcare system.