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Daily Assignment and Resource Guide

 

Monday

Morning

Workshop on Wellness, Assessment and Resiliency

 

Afternoon

Workshop on Language and the Culture of Medicine

 

Dr. Reish:

Video:

-Boston Med video (begins at 2:53, , ends at 5:57)

Dr. Reish's ZocDoc page:

Reish page

Video Transcript:

Transcript

Additional resources (not mandatory):

JAMA article: A Piece of My Mind: My Name is Not Interpreter

Reply: Microaggressions During Medical Training

 

Homework Assignment:

1. Set Wellness
   • GoalsFor tips on how to set wellness goals see: http://blog.healthadvocate.com/2015/09/setting-goals-for-wellness/
2. Write a postcard
   • Visualize yourself in 6 weeks, when you are on your way to having met your SMART goal and have added a wellness habit to your routine.  Write a post card to yourself reminding yourself of your goals and vision. 
   • Postcards are found in your clerkship folder.  Please turn in your completed postcard Tuesday Afternoon at our workshop session. Your postcard will NOT be graded, but you must turn one in. 

Tuesday

Morning - Please complete the following

1. Ethics in a Short White Coat (with Reflection essay, directions in the module)

   • Essay due to jpowers@siumed.edu by 8 am Wednesday morning

2. Informal curriculum readings

   • Academic Med articles: The Hidden Curriculum, Ethics Teaching, and the Structure of Medical Education

   •   Characteristics of the Informal Curriculum and Trainees’ Ethical Choices

   • Watch: https://www.facebook.com/kevinmdblog/videos/10155055361644886/

 

Afternoon

Workshop on the Informal Curriculum

 

Homework Assignment

Wellness Goals

 

Wednesday

Morning

Admissions Essay Exercise

 

Afternoon

Homework Assignment:

1. Wellness Goals
2. Letter of Gratitude

Resources about Gratitude (Optional):

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/teachers-express-thanks-to-students-who-uplift-them-and-everybody-gets-emotional_us_57f66c48e4b0c1a524cbb114

• http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/in-praise-of-gratitude

• http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/science/a-serving-of-gratitude-brings-healthy-dividends.html

Thursday

Morning

1. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rxL3ik9sJA
2. Do: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

Instructions – The link takes you to the Harvard IAT (Implicit Association Test) site.  You’ll need to agree to its terms to enter, and answer some demographic questions at the end (it’s a research site, and they’re gathering data).  Once in, you’ll see a list of test you can take that will tell you about your individual bias on the subject.  They’re short, so take a few – you may be curious about several of the subjects.  You won’t be asked to share your personal results in public, but for the sake of a shared class experience, please take at least the race, weight and age IAT’s. 

Homework Assignment:

Guided Reflection on Personal Bias (All essays are submitted to the grader anonymously)

1. What was your experience while taking the IATs?  Did you have an internal monolog as you were taking it, and if so, what was it about?  If you found differing degrees of difficulty depending on the associations, you were being asked to make?  What do you think was behind the challenges you noticed in reacting to the words/images?

2. What biases did you uncover when taking the IAT’s?  What is your reaction to the results?

3. These IATs are about your state of mind right now, in the present.  Think about the biases you found in different time frames.  What experiences do you think were present in your past that formed your current state of mind?  What situations can you anticipate happening in the future where you will need to be particularly aware of your biases? In particular, how might your biases affect your performance as a physician?

 

Afternoon

Workshop: Systematic Bias

Homework Assignment:

Wellness Goals