Vaccines for Childhood

Preventable Diseases
Trey Hughes, 7th
ISM – Fall Semester 2018
Mrs. Click
My Mentor
My mentor is Dr. Amir Salim M.D. P.A. He works at his
own clinic at 450 North Texas Avenue. Dr. Salim is general
practitioner that specializes in family medicine.
Specifically, my topic is the vaccination of children, which
is fairly routine at his clinic.
Introduction to ISM
• ISM is a high school class that gives
students the ability to be mentored by a
professional in their field of interest.
• It requires 3 hours of mentorship and 2
hours of activity a week, totally 27
mentorship hours in nine weeks.
• Activity logs are required each week to
document what we have learned and
observed that week.
• Every nine weeks, we receive an
evaluation by our mentor.
• Each semester, we create a project
centering around of topic that interests
us.
Project Topic
Vaccines for Childhood Preventable Diseases.

• My topic is about the science and administration of vaccines that

prevent childhood preventable diseases.
• I chose this topic because vaccines have always been of great
interest to me, and I feel it is relevant due to the misconceptions that
have spread about vaccines.

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Key Points
• Administration of Vaccines
• Legality of Vaccines
• How Vaccines Work
• The Anti-Vax Movement
• Statistical Analysis of the Effectiveness of Vaccines Worldwide
Research
• The specifics on needle size and dosage of vaccines
depending on age
• The science behind what a vaccine does
• Documented cases of reduction of diseases relating to
vaccines

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Current Event
The HPV Vaccine
• What Human Papillomavirus is, and what it can lead to
• Statistical analysis of Human Papillomavirus in the United States
• New discoveries relating to HPV
• Why getting a HPV vaccine is important

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Product
• My product will be the following: giving a mock vaccine to a
mannequin baby. I will demonstrate this in a video, and my plan at
the current moment is that I will gather the materials for the video
by October 15th, I will write a script and establish a staging area for
the video by October 25th, I will record the video on November 5th,
and I will edit and polish the video by November 10th
• My product will be placed near the end of my presentation, just
before the conclusion.
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Conclusion
• From this mentorship experience, I hope to gain
knowledge about how vaccines work and how they
have affected health care, as well as how to
administer them.
• From this project, I hope to learn about the
idiosyncrasies of vaccines and their place in health
care and the public in general.

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Thank you
• Dr. Salim, Mrs. Click, my family for being so supportive,
and everybody at the clinic!
Work Cited
• “A Method for Storing Vaccines at Room Temperature.” Phys.org - News and Articles on Science
and Technology, Phys.org, phys.org/news/2016-11-method-vaccines-room-temperature.html.
• “Coaching.” Jim Logan, jslogan.com/jim-logan/man-and-woman-help-silhouette-in-mountains/.
• “Iran Among Top 10 in Vaccine Production.” Financial Tribune, 10 Jan. 2017,
financialtribune.com/articles/people/57188/iran-among-top-10-in-vaccine-production.