self reflection

self reflection Order Description The Final Reflective Assessment consists of a guided, year-end comprehensive summary of your strengths and weaknesses and serves to prepare you for the next phase of AOM education & clinical practice. You are expected to reference your Reflective Practice Journal and the discussions in your monthly CORP meetings, to create a well-organized document summarizing your personal growth and challenges of the past academic year. It is required that you follow the Final Reflective Assessment form as a guide (see below) and directly assess your progress in these three areas: As a learner in the classroom setting, as an AOM practitioner-in-training, and as one committed to core values and an ethical code. Student-Interns should consider this final reflective assessment to be an exit interview from the college before a team of clinical faculty; or an interview for a job as a licensed acupuncturist, and/or to become a faculty intern in an AOM college. THE FINAL REFLECTIVE ASSESSMENT MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: • A critical assessment of knowledge acquired over the course of 3 years, including performance on all major exams biomedical course examinations, and performance on and/or preparatory work for NCCAOM examinations. • Characterize the nature of your AOM education and how it makes you stand out. • Strengths and areas that need further development as an Independent Acupuncture Provider—the Professional Dimension. • Strengths and areas for improvement at engaging in the Patient-Practitioner Relationship as authentic human Relatedness—The Human Dimension. • Plan for ongoing improvement as part of your process as a lifelong learner. • Briefly summarize your business plan and the marketing materials you have developed and assess what additional work you will need to do to begin your practice. • Your goals for the next 1 year, 3 years and 5 years. • Demonstration of your awareness of scope of practice according to state law (summarize this scope of practice for whatever state[s] you will practice in). • Discuss how you aim to build self-cultivation, lifestyle enhancement, stress, and/or pain management into your own to prevent burnout for you. • A summary of your ability to practice AOM evidence-based practice, to continue to perform a reflective self-assessment on an ongoing basis. o Before completing this last item, carefully read The Gold Standard: The Challenge of Evidence-Based Medicine and Standardization in Healthcare (Timmermans and Berg, Chapter 3, pp. 82-99; and Chapter 5, pp. 142-165). SELF REFLECTION & READINESS FOR PRACTICE – GUIDING QUESTIONS • From your experience as a “Receiver of Care” in ACP classes for an entire year, reflect upon what you have learned about yourself as a “patient” and how this impacts on your behavior as a “practitioner”. How has your perception of health and illness changed through your experiences in ACP from Year 1 until now the end of your schooling at TSCA? • Reflect on what you have learned through the process of providing and receiving constructive feedback in ACP class and during Clinic RAP-UP. What are some of the most notable things you have learned from working with your peers? • What challenges did you face while offering constructive feedback with teammates in clinic RAP-UP? • Thus far, what aspects of administering acupuncture treatment are you finding to be most rewarding and most challenging? • From your experiences in Grand Rounds, what have you learned about the practitioner-patient relationship? How will these discoveries influence your private practice? • Which senior practitioner’s skills in Grand Rounds do you most admire and why? • Which senior practitioner’s somatic and verbal skills in Grand Rounds do you most appreciate and why? • Reflect upon how your own somatic and verbal skills, including Acupuncture Reframing, have changed and improved over the course of the year. For which skills do you feel you have a natural ability and for which do you feel needs more attention and practice? • Are you pleased or dissatisfied with your accomplishments in AOM didactic classes, Biomedical Classes and any additional classes? • In conclusion, summarize your achievements in these three areas: As a learner in the classroom setting, as an AOM practitioner-in-training, and as one committed to core values and an ethical code. Do you feel you are ready graduate and practice on your own?