Research Plan

                As a group we all decided that we would research the traveling dentists that go out to the various native villages. Some questions we decided to look in to who is funding this project? When did it start? Who is involved? Who does it cover? We think this is an important issue because we want to know if we are paying for this program or how it is being managed. I thing that our audience will be dentists who are looking in to their at their options in Alaska, American Indians who are looking at their healthcare options in Alaska, Alaska Natives who are looking in to their own health benefits, other tribes who may be looking into allocating benefits for their own people, as well as curious individuals who just want to know how Alaskan Natives are being taken care of.

We decided that we would break our topic down in to four parts so we could each take charge of one part. The sections that we broke our topic into were: the history, the funding, the dentists involved, and locations that receive these dentists.

                My part of this project will be to research where the funding comes from. I will be looking into who pays for the dentists to travel out to the bush, who pays for services they provide, who pays for their supplies, and who is eligible for what funding. I will also look at any other medical services that are being supplied by this same funding, if there are any.  I am going to start by finding sources in the library’s databases to see if I can even find this kind of information.

                To be sure that we all stay on track, as a group we have decided on a few meeting dates by which we will each have a few things accomplished.  We plan to each have our sources by the Tuesday before our group conference so that we can put together an annotated bibliography and write our group prospectus together, as a group on the Tuesday when we do not have class. To keep myself on track I have set aside time to research our subject before the date that it is due. I have decided to devote most of my Saturday to finding my recourses and developing a direction for my portion of the assignment. The due dates on the handout have been helpful for me to remember what is due what days and I will do my best to get ahead on this assignment so that I do not get behind on other assignments.