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

  1. 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.