Final Reflections- AD by Sumaya Bashir Mohamed

empathy / cultural competence

2024-03-08 18:17:23 UTC

Having these skills are especially important in human service because they help people give better care to patients. To provide fair and inclusive healthcare/human services, it is important to understand and value different backgrounds and points of view. Without looking at other point of views, you bring in your own bias that could affect someone else's livelihood. (Hayat Maow)

Hollistic Analysis

2024-03-08 18:17:52 UTC

Medical systems cannot be analyzed hollistically with statistics and from afar. The personal challanges and wrap around issues that comes with sickness need to be addressed with a policy that takes in account all aspects. I learned that global health can be brought down to a personal perspective to improve healthcare for all. (Martin Gong)

Considering Culture-Jacob Cogan

2024-03-08 18:19:19 UTC

With goals of being a doctor within a decade, I really look back upon and value what we learned with culture, and how it should be taken into account on a patient by patient basis. By considering others backgrounds, beliefs, and habits, I can do my best to treat people in a way that respects and values that, and integrate biomedical treatment as needed, and offer support beyond that to help tie together culture and medicine in the best way possible.

Collaboration

2024-03-08 18:19:27 UTC

One skill I hope to bring with me as a public health practitioner is collaboration. I hope to work with the community of interest and gain insight into any disparities or inequities that they may be burdened with. Following this, I will work with them to create policies that address these problems, hoping to address the disparities these communities may face. I believe it is crucial to allow autonomy, support, empathy, and reason when working with community members and to provide the most effective and equitable decisions when it comes to population health. (Jack Nuss)

asking questions

2024-03-08 18:19:37 UTC

I would bring the skill of being able to ask critical questions. Being able to advocate for yourself and knowing what types of questions to ask is very important in any setting. It helps you understand what is going on and make sure you are getting/giving the care that is necessary (Abby Zoladz)

Kinsey Fiedler 3/8/24

2024-03-08 18:19:52 UTC

What I will take with me is not focusing on the “single story” narrative. Looking a patient through only one lens can be a harmful way to approach healthcare. People are so much more than what you see on the surface, so keeping that in mind while I interact with others will take my far in my professional goals.

Community-based approach

2024-03-08 18:20:05 UTC

I imagine bringing a sense of community and empathy to my future career. Being able to prioritize a bottom-up approach and collaborating directly with communities and individuals in need is what will ultimately provide them with the best care possible. Having empathy for patients and understanding the situations they are in also helps prevent them from being reduced to numbers or statistics.

(Sofia Geherin)

Recognize Privilege and Barriers

2024-03-08 18:20:21 UTC

An analytical and practical skill that I would bring to a job in healthcare is to be aware of the barriers that surround patients in being able to reach out for medical treatment. The process of recognizing your sick and taking those steps to reach out to nonprofessionals/professionals is crucial to know what type of barriers surround receiving healthcare. I would also keep in mind what "band-aid" medicine looks like and avoid that approach to the best of my abilities. (Stephanie Vasquez Pedro)

Bottom-up approach - Eva Flaherty

2024-03-08 18:20:26 UTC

From this class, I learned the importance of using a bottom-up approach when investigating how best to make effective health care reforms. Instead of assuming you know the whole story of a place based on your inevitably biased perspective, it is important to take the time to learn about the community you are helping. This will help me in future research aspirations when trying to make a difference in healthcare.

Understanding financial incentives behind healthcare

2024-03-08 18:20:55 UTC

I think one of the most important skills I would apply when navigating health systems is the role of financial incentives and how they drive behavior. While healthcare systems should theoretically only seek to provide care, other motives such as wealth makes the healthcare industry more muddied in their goals and actions. In order to truly understand health I need to understand the role of money in healthcare systems and how to make systems more equitable without compromising resources(Sangwoo Park)

2024-03-08 18:21:24 UTC

The analytic or practical skill I imagine bringing with me as a healthcare worker is the ability to create

culturally sensitive research that understands health issues within different groups of people. This is takes in

the perspective from multiple points of view and makes sure everyone is treated. It also helps as an activist to understand

everyones ideas and not only see things from one group.

Collaboration and cultural competence

2024-03-08 18:21:25 UTC

As a lot of research or work is barely ever done by one person it is important that I am amble to contribute to a team and work with others smoothly. But also working with the people I would be researching or learning about. I see myself working with a wide range of people in the future so being able to be open to learning about cultures and how they shape one’s day to day life would be something that will help me understand them.

(Ella Marie Renon)

Open Communication

2024-03-08 18:22:14 UTC

As an aspiring medical professional, one analytical skill I imagine bringing with me to the job when navigating the medical system is having open communication. Namely, it is critical to ensure that your patients, fellow professionals, and families of patients are well aware of any ideas, concerns, and other information that are relevant. In addition, open communication can foster stronger relationships within the medical system, which is important so individuals feel included and trust you as a healthcare professional. This includes listening to the needs and desires of your patients as well, which will allow you to provide the best care possible. (Leya Dereje)

Communication

2024-03-08 18:24:56 UTC

One of the most important aspects of providing quality healthcare is communicating to patients in a clear, whole, and concise way to ensure informed consent and understanding. As healthcare professionals, we need to learn this technical skill of effective communication to make sure that our patients are fully aware of how we came to a certain diagnosis and why we chose the intervention we did. At the same time, we need to make sure that we understand what our patients are communicating to us, what their biggest concerns are, and how we can tailor our approaches to their needs.

(Aida Chan)

Collaboration

2024-03-08 18:40:10 UTC

In my professional journey, I aim to cultivate a deep commitment to ethical practices and community collaboration. By actively involving local communities in healthcare decision-making processes, I envision fostering a sense of empowerment and ownership among individuals. Through ethical and inclusive practices, I aspire to contribute to the creation of healthcare systems that prioritize the well-being of all members of society. (George Pirumyan)

empathy/mindfulness of perspective

2024-03-08 18:56:45 UTC

Being able to prioritize empathy and being mindful of the perspectives of those you interact with is very important to me and I believe to be vital for both the patient and the provider in order to be most efficient and successful. As we are part of a diverse society that involves many different cultures, backgrounds, and opinions, being empathetic to every individual you interact with is crucial to maintain a positive atmosphere in which people can be comfortable with expressing themselves. Perspectives and help us to see the bigger picture, whether that be for a small or large instance, and should be considered regardless of faith, orientation, background, etc...

(Sasha Mills)

Cultural Competence

2024-03-08 20:00:17 UTC

I think that with my aspiration of pursuing a career in healthcare where I’m interacting with patients of different backgrounds, the skill of cultural competence is extremely important to have. Being able to empathize and understand the background of each patient and how I as a physician/doctor could help treat them in ways that are accessible and fitting for their needs is essential to their wellbeing. In addition, this skill helps create a safer and more empathetic and caring environment for the patients themselves. (Isabelle Saguilla)