Final Product Proposal

Family practice includes the medical treatment of all genders and ages and addresses

illness related to all organ systems and every disease entity. Family practice focuses on treating

and diagnosing the entire family. Therefore, family practice medical providers tend to care for a

patient through their entire life, birth to old age. Family practice physician assistants manage

patients with chronic conditions, prescribe medication, perform physical exams, order and

interpret lab, and diagnose or treat illnesses and injuries. The most common illnesses seen in

family practice offices include bronchitis, diabetes, headaches and migraines, asthma, bladder

infection, and finally respiratory and sinus infections. However, most of these illnesses can be

prevented to reduce the risk of doctor visits. This idea led me to create an informational

infographic regarding the cold and flu season for my original work.

For my final product, I plan to continue off of my original work and implement an idea to

help prevent the spread of germs in the clinic. My plan is to have a station before entering the

clinic where a mask and hand-sanitizer can be applied. By doing this, the spread of germs and

pathogens would be severely reduced in the clinic. In shadowing, a family medicine physician

assistant I am able to observe the dynamic in the waiting room and see the patients that are being

treated for these recurring, preventable illnesses. From there, I will begin to research further to

collect data and evidence that I can use in creating an efficient implication. For my final product,

I will draft an informational flyer that will explain this preventative process.

I will use higher level thinking to effectively create a system that can help prevent the

spread of germs in the family practice clinic. My hope is that by creating my final product, it can

actually be applied and used in the clinic. By creating this process, my goal is to reduce the

amount of common cold or flu cases in the family practice by preventing the spread of germs in

the clinic.