Exploring Health Professions
Introduction to Strengths
Knowing Your Strengths- Self Assessment & Understanding
Professional Development Portfolio
Networking & Experiential Learning
Understanding Patient Experience
Patient-Centered Care
Social & Cultural Underpinnings
Cross-Cutting skills: Society, Culture, and Ethics
Ethics and Exploring Healthcare Careers
Healthcare Career Options
Healthcare Career Group Presentations
Future Planning Financial Literacy
Self Awareness
There are two types: external and internal
Now I am able to realize how I react in certain situations that I was blind to before
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Top 5 Clifton Strengths Assessment
- Responsibility 2. Consistency 3. Arranger 4. Empathy 5. Individualization
This was able to show me my top 5 traits in situations that I didn't even know myself. This can help me improve on my strengths.
Resumes, Handshake, and Linkedin
We learned how to make a LinkedIn profile, Handshake Profile and a proper resume.
This can help us in the future when apply for a job so we look more professional
We are able to still get experience and get a peak into the career.
Shadowing and virtual shadowing
Escape Fire Documentary
We saw how the healthcare system is ran and how it is unfair to patients to receive that little of care. I learned that some doctors need to meet with a certain number of patients in a day and it doesn't matter the outcome.
Developing Empathy
In healthcare, all workers need empathy so they are nonjudmental and are able to understand what patients are going through.
Implicit Bias and how to reduce it
We learned that we all come with automatic biases and that there may be a relationship between implicit bias and healthcare outcomes.
Ethics in Healthcare
Health care workers have to deal with ethics every day. Now we know how to be respectful and respect other people's ethics so that no one or anything else gets harmed or offended.
Lightening talks
The lightening talks really helped me to understand certain careers from people who have experience in them. I learned more about patient care and the difficulties of each career.
How to do a professional Interview
We had to interview our peers to see how we react in these pressured situations. I learned that I need to make eye contact and not fidget with my hands when being interviewed.
Eastern Medicine
This is a practice of medicine that is not as common as Western. This involves acupuncture, chiropractic services, and massages to relieve the body. It is less invasive and not as harsh on the body.
Budgeting and saving money
We learned how to save money in college. They told us to find roomates to save money, look in depth at the best options for housing on and off campus, and do not pay for more space than you need.