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Ism-Mentor Interview Assignment Questions: Student Name: Period
Ism-Mentor Interview Assignment Questions: Student Name: Period
1. For someone working in your field, please describe the fantasies versus realities of the job.
One fantasy is having the best patients, as in making sure that they always follow through with the treatment as
well as making sure that they tell you the complete patient history. Dr. Trujillo says that this is one of the hardest
thing. It is very important to know the complete patient history, this includes not only the child’s but also the
parents. Dr. Trujillo says she finds it very hard for some patients to be consistent with their history.
2. What is your current educational level? What continuing education and training are required?
Dr. Rocio Trujillo is an MD/Pediatric senior resident. She is currently completing her residency in San Juan City
Hospital, which is in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She was born and raised in Cuba, when she moved to the United
States she passed her medical boards and completed an internship in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. She than enters
residency in San Juan City Hospital. She will be graduate in June and will take the Texas Board exam to become
a board-certified pediatrician.
3. Please describe the typical day to day activities of someone working in your field.
A typical day for a pediatric resident, according to Dr. Trujillo, would for example start at Monday 8 am. Then
you would attend your subspecialty rotation, the rotation last one whole month. Yet the daily routine will depend
on the rotation that you are currently doing. Some rotations are harder than others. Yet as a pediatric resident at
San Juan City Hospital you will work a lot, according to Dr. Trujillo. The day typically ends at 5 or 6 pm, yet in
some cases you might have to stay later. Once you arrive home, the work does not stop, you must study for
monthly exams. This includes doing research as well as writing papers. Some days you will have to stay in the
hospital from 7pm to 7am the next morning, monitoring your patients.
4. How secure are you in your current position? What do you think is the future of your field?
Dr. Trujillo feels very secure in her current position at the residency, but she also feels secure at her next job as a
licensed Pediatrician. She believes the future of pediatric medicine is very safe. She says while it sounds harsh,
there will always be sick children that need to be seen. And that there will always be children who needs checkup.
5. What is a typical (average or lowest to highest) salary of someone working in your field?
8. Do you believe that vaccines can cause side effects, such as autism?
Dr. Trujillo stated this many years ago a study was published that proved that vaccine sin fact does not cause
autism. There has also been a lot of other studies that suggest that vaccines do not cause autism. There was a
study that “proved” that vaccines cause autism. Yet the researches that did this must publish a retraction, yet the
damage was done and many parents believed this. Like stated before it has been proven in many studies that this
is not true.
10. Do you believe that there is a problem with the declining rates of vaccination in children? Why or why
not?
Dr. Trujillo believes that the declining rates of vaccinates in children is a growing problem. She believes that the
internet is the physicians worst enemy. Parents and older patients tend to use Google as a way of trying to find
what their symptoms mean. Sometimes doctors must compete with WebMD and other websites that might not
give the complete or correct information. Diseases that had been almost eradicated are nowadays emerging again
from outbreaks, causing lot of hospitalization and even death among children. The worst part about this scenario
is that all of this could have been prevented.