Career counseling, 2nd ed
Goals; Interviews; Narratives; Models; Intention; Intention; Models; Life designing; career construction counseling; identity narrative; Occupational Aspirations; Occupational Guidance; reflexivity; Self-Concept; career themes; Early Memories; early recollections; assessment goals; narrative psychology; Career Construction Interview; career counseling practitioners
This book describes methods of career construction counseling based on the conceptual model of life designing. It defines counseling and how career counseling has evolved over the last century. The counseling profession has evolved three distinct conceptual models to direct how they conduct career counseling: guiding, developing, and constructing. The book is organized into nine chapters. Chapter one presents a brief overview of the book. Chapter two examines the core concepts of self, identity, meaning, mastery, and mattering. Chapter three explains how practitioners use narrative psychology to help clients revise their career stories to increase comprehension, coherence, and continuity. Chapter four describes the framework and elements of the Career Construction Interview during which practitioners ask story-crafting questions, which scaffold career construction. Chapter five presents the assessment goals that concentrate on extracting client preoccupations and problems from the early recollections that sustain them. Chapter six describes how to identify client solutions to the problems they pose in their early recollections. Chapter seven discusses how to use career themes or central tensions to extend clients' occupational plots by identifying fitting settings, possible scripts, and future scenarios. The final two chapters concentrate on using the assessment results in career construction counseling. The penultimate chapter describes how career counseling practitioners compose an identity narrative that reconstructs clients' small stories into a large story that encourages reflexivity to clarify choices. The final chapter explains the importance of turning intention to action in the real world, first through exploration and trial, then through deciding and doing. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Savickas Mark L
2019
1905-07
Book
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1037/0000105-000" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1037/0000105-000</a>
The Career Construction Interview
Interviews; Role Models; Narratives; Role Models; practitioners; career construction counseling; Therapeutic Processes; career theme; Occupational Guidance; Early Memories; early recollections; Career Construction Interview; current favorite story; motto; Psychotherapeutic Techniques; story-crafting questions; Television; television shows
This chapter describes the framework and elements of the Career Construction Interview during which practitioners ask story-crafting questions, which scaffold career construction. The Career Construction Interview consists of stimulus questions that have evolved over the last 30 years. The career construction counseling discourse theorizes these questions and their sequence. The Career Construction Interview consists of five primary elements of inquiry, each chosen as a gateway to stories about a particular topic. A structured format arranges the five stimulus questions in a sequence that systematically prompts an evocative unfolding of a client's occupational plot and career theme. The stimulus questions, ask about: role models that individuals admired when they were young; television shows they watch regularly; a current favorite story from a book or movie; the saying or motto they like most; and early recollections from around the age of 6. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Savickas Mark L
Career Counseling., 2nd Ed.
2019
1905-07
Book Section
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1037/0000105-004" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1037/0000105-004</a>
Career construction assessment
Goals; Interviews; Narratives; practitioners; career construction counseling; career theme; identity narrative; Occupational Aspirations; Occupational Guidance; Self-Concept; assessment goals; Career Construction Interview
After completing a Career Construction Interview and before beginning counseling with clients, practitioners must understand the meaning presented in clients' stories, relate this meaning to the initial reason they sought counseling, and prepare to retell clients' stories in a manner that draws a sharp character sketch, highlights the career theme, and envisions scenarios that extend the occupational plot. If more than one session is possible, then the tasks of interviewing and counseling may be divided. Typically, practitioners spend the first session eliciting clients' career constructions with the Career Construction Interview, the second session narrating to the client a reconstructed story and beginning to coconstruct a reconceptualized identity narrative, and the third and final session completing counseling and terminating the consultation. This chapter presents the assessment goals that concentrate on extracting client preoccupations and problems from the early recollections that sustain them. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Savickas Mark L
Career Counseling., 2nd Ed.
2019
2019
Book Section
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1037/0000105-000" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1037/0000105-000</a>
Turn intention into action
Learning; Interviews; Narratives; Intention; Intention; career counseling; career construction; career theme; identity narrative; Occupational Aspirations; Occupational Guidance; transformative learning
Career counseling practitioners hope that clients leave career counseling having experienced a process of transformative learning that has brought them into contact with their deepest sense of vitality. If so, clients are able to narrate a more comprehensible, coherent, and continuous identity narrative. Buoyed by biographical agency and ripe with intention, they should be ready for take action in the real world and prepared to deal with new questions that will emerge. So empowered, they begin to write a new chapter in their life stories, narratives that extend an occupational plot with a meaningful career theme. This chapter explains the importance of turning intention to action in the real world, first through exploration and trial, then through deciding and doing. It concludes with the case of a 19-year-old college sophomore majoring in biology to illustrate career construction interview, assessment routine, and counseling. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Savickas Mark L
Career Counseling., 2nd Ed.
2019
1905-07
Book Section
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1037/0000105-009" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1037/0000105-009</a>
From pragmatism to politics: a qualitative study of abortion providers.
Female; Ohio; Quality of Life; Motivation; Health Services Accessibility; Job Satisfaction; Human; Interviews; Qualitative Studies; Work Environment; Politics; Stress; Induced; Abortion; Physician Attitudes; Occupational; Physicians – Psychosocial Factors
Twenty-eight years after the United State Supreme Court issued its landmark Roe v. Wade, the struggle continues to ensure that all women have the full range of reproductive choices, including abortion. While the struggle can be addressed through its political, religious, and medical dimensions, it also can be examined through the perspectives of those who actually provide abortions. This paper examines the perspectives of physician abortion providers to understand more fully their motivations, the quality of their personal and professional lives, their views on the future of abortion services, and their recommendations for undergraduate and residency medical education. Such questions are often best answered through qualitative inquiry, particularly when the subject at hand has had little interpretive scrutiny, lacks theoretical understandings, and remains in general an under-investigated phenomenon. Because abortion providers and the work they do fit those criteria, a qualitative study of physician providers in Ohio was undertaken. This paper is divided into the following sections: a literature review of abortion services in the United States, methods, interview data and discussion, and last, recommendations and conclusions.
Wear D
Women & health
2002
2002-08
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1300/j013v36n04_08" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1300/j013v36n04_08</a>
Physician views on practicing professionalism in the corporate age.
Education; Human; Interviews; Qualitative Studies; Professionalism; Professional Practice; Audiorecording; Medical; Business – Methods
Arnold Relman argues that medical education does not prepare students and residents to practice their profession in today's corporate health care system. Corporate health care administrators agree: Physicians enter the workforce unskilled in contract negotiation, evidence-based medicine, navigating bureaucratic systems, and so forth. What about practicing physicians? Do they agree as well? According to this study, they do. Feeling like decentered double agents and unprepared, physicians find themselves professionally lost, struggling to balance issues of cost and care and expressing lots of negativity toward the cultures of medicine and managed care. However, physicians are resilient. A group of physicians, who may be called proactive, are meeting the professional demands of corporate health care by becoming sophisticated about its bureaucratic organization and the ways in which their professional and personal commitments fit within the system. Following the lead of proactive physicians, the authors support Relman's thesis that education for both students and physicians requires a major overhaul.
Castellani B; Wear D
Qualitative Health Research
2000
2000-07
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/104973200129118598" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/104973200129118598</a>
Anti-tobacco socialization in homes in African-American and White parents, and smoking and nonsmoking parents.
Ohio; Child; Focus Groups; Socialization; Human; Questionnaires; Chi Square Test; Funding Source; Interviews; Adolescence; Audiorecording; Blacks; Whites; Survey Research; Parental Attitudes – Ethnology; Parenting – Ethnology; Smoking – In Adolescence; Smoking – Prevention and Control – In Adolescence
PURPOSE: To examine parental perceptions and behaviors with regard to teen smoking, comparing African-American and white parents, and those who did and did not smoke. METHODS: Focus groups consisting of African-American and white parents who smoked provided initial in-depth information. A computer-assisted telephone survey of a biracial sample of 311 parents of children ages 8 to 17 years provided more generalizable information regarding parental beliefs and behaviors. RESULTS: Nearly 50% of households either allowed teen smoking, had no ground rules, or had set restrictive rules but never communicated them to the children. Compared to white parents, African-American parents felt more empowered to affect their children's behaviors and were more likely to actively participate in anti-tobacco socialization within the home (all p values \textless 0.01). Among the African-American parents, 98% reported 18 years or older to be an appropriate age for teens to make up their own minds about using tobacco, whereas 26% of white parents thought 16 years to be an appropriate age (p \textless 0.001). Parents who smoked reported more frequent rule-making than those who did not smoke (p = 0.02), but were more likely to believe that childhood tobacco use is inevitable (p = 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: Many parents are not engaged in antitobacco socialization in the home. Differences in the degree of parental participation may contribute to the variance in smoking prevalence between African-American and white children.
Clark P I; Scarisbrick-Hauser A; Gautam S P; Wirk S J
Journal of Adolescent Health
1999
1999-05
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/s1054-139x(98)00117-7" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/s1054-139x(98)00117-7</a>
The medically underserved: who is likely to exercise and why?
Adult; Female; Male; Ohio; Aged; Motivation; Exercise; Health Promotion; Counseling; Human; Convenience Sample; Questionnaires; Chi Square Test; Descriptive Statistics; Funding Source; Data Analysis Software; Interviews; Middle Age; Correlation Coefficient; Adolescence; Summated Rating Scaling; Whites; Preventive Health Care; Medically Underserved – Ohio
Adults who exercise regularly have better health, but only 15% of U.S. adults engage in regular exercise, with some social groups, such as people with lower incomes and women, having even lower rates. This study investigates the rate at which medically underserved patients receive exercise counseling from health care providers, characteristics of those who exercise, and barriers and motivations to exercise. The convenience sample was predominantly female and White and exclusively low-income and uninsured or underinsured. On average, participants were obese, by Federal Obesity Guidelines; 43% smoked. Although 60% of 126 patients reported that providers discussed exercise with them, the discussions had no relationship with patients' engagement in exercise. Women and those with lung problems, diabetes, or children in the home were less likely than others surveyed to exercise. The highest rated motivations included body image and health issues. The most important barriers were time, cost, and access to exercise facilities and equipment. In order for exercise counseling to be more effective, health care providers' interventions must consider patients' personal characteristics, health status, readiness to engage in an exercise program, and motivations and barriers to exercise.
Schrop S L; Pendleton BF; McCord G; Gil K M; Stockton L; McNatt J; Gilchrist V J
Journal of Health Care for the Poor & Underserved
2006
2006-05
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2006.0069" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1353/hpu.2006.0069</a>
Community health workers curriculum evaluation through focused interview of potential employers.
Interviews; Course Evaluation; Community Health Workers; Employer-Employee Relations
Tsiris Sophia
Advances in Integrative Medicine
2017
2017-12
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aimed.2018.02.012" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.aimed.2018.02.012</a>
The ethics of HIV testing and disclosure for healthcare professionals: what do our future doctors think?
Adult; Female; Humans; Male; Adolescent; Young Adult; United States; Focus Groups; Health Personnel; Health Care Surveys; Students; Anonymous Testing/ethics; Disclosure/*ethics; HIV Seropositivity/*diagnosis; Patients; Human; Thematic Analysis; Interviews; Student Attitudes; Truth Disclosure; Audiorecording; Medical; Medical/*psychology; Health Screening; Attitude to Illness; Mandatory Testing; Privacy and Confidentiality; HIV Infections – Diagnosis; HIV Infections – Ethical Issues
AIM: This study examined future medical professionals' attitudes and beliefs regarding mandatory human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing and disclosure. METHOD: A total of 54 US medical students were interviewed regarding mandatory testing and disclosure of HIV status for both patient and health care professional populations. Interviews were qualitatively analyzed using thematic analysis by the first author and verified by the second author. RESULTS: Medical students considered a variety of perspectives, even placing themselves in the shoes of their patients or imagining themselves as a healthcare professional with HIV. Mixed opinions were presented regarding the importance of HIV testing for students coupled with a fear about school administration regarding HIV positive test results and the outcome of a student's career. Third- and fourth-year medical students felt that there should be no obligation to disclose one's HIV status to patients, colleagues, or employers. However, most of these students did feel that patients had an obligation to disclose their HIV status to healthcare professionals. CONCLUSION: This study gives medical educators a glimpse into what our future doctors think about HIV testing and disclosure, and how difficult it is for them to recognize that they can be patients too, as they are conflicted by professional and personal values.
Aultman Julie M; Borges Nicole J
Medical teacher
2011
2011
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.3109/0142159X.2011.530311" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.3109/0142159X.2011.530311</a>
Emergency department use and barriers to wellness: a survey of emergency department frequent users.
*Emergency department; *Frequent user; *Health Services Accessibility/statistics & numerical data; *Survey; Emergency Service; Emergency Service – Utilization; Female; Health Services Accessibility – Statistics and Numerical Data; Health Services Needs and Demand – Statistics and Numerical Data; Health Services Needs and Demand/statistics & numerical data; Hospital/*statistics & numerical data; Human; Humans; Interviews; Interviews as Topic; Male; Middle Age; Middle Aged; Prospective Studies; Surveys and Questionnaires; Trauma Centers – Utilization; Trauma Centers/statistics & numerical data
BACKGROUND: There is no common understanding of how needs of emergency department (ED) frequent users differ from other patients. This study sought to examine how to best serve this population. Examinations of why ED frequent users present to the ED, what barriers to care exist, and what service offerings may help these patients achieve an optimal level of health were conducted. METHODS: We performed a prospective study of frequent ED users in an adult only, level 1 trauma center with approximately 90,000 visits per year. Frequent ED users were defined as those who make four or more ED visits in a 12 month period. Participants were administered a piloted structured interview by a trained researcher querying demographics, ED usage, perceived barriers to care, and potential aids to maintaining health. RESULTS: Of 1,523 screened patients, 297 were identified as frequent ED users. One hundred frequent ED users were enrolled. The mean age was 48 years (95% CI 45-51). The majority of subjects were female (64%, 64/100, 95% CI 55-73%), white (61%, 60/98, 95% CI 52-71%) and insured by Medicaid (55%, 47/86, 95% CI 44-65%) or Medicare (23%, 20/86, 95% CI 14-32%). Subjects had a median of 6 ED visits, and 2 inpatient admissions in the past 12 months at this hospital. Most frequent ED users (61%, 59/96, 95% CI 52-71%) stated the primary reason for their visit was that they felt that their health problem could only be treated in an ED. Transportation presented as a major barrier to few patients (7%, 7/95, 95% CI 3-14%). Subjects stated that "after-hours options, besides the ED for minor health issues" (63%, 60/95, 95% CI 53-73%) and having "a nurse to work with you one-on-one to help manage health care needs" (53%, 50/95, 95% CI
Birmingham Lauren E; Cochran Thaddeus; Frey Jennifer A; Stiffler Kirk A; Wilber Scott T
BMC emergency medicine
2017
2017-05
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-017-0126-5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1186/s12873-017-0126-5</a>
The Relationship Between Organizational Characteristics and Advance Care Planning Practices.
Administrative Personnel; Adult; advance care planning; Advance Care Planning; Advance Care Planning/*organization & administration/standards; area agency on aging; Attitude of Health Personnel; care management; Case Management; Case Managers; Chi Square Test; Clinical Protocols/standards; community-based long-term care; Confidence Intervals; Cross Sectional Studies; Cross-Sectional Studies; Data Analysis Software; Descriptive Research; Descriptive Statistics; Female; Funding Source; Government Agencies; Human; Humans; Inservice Training/organization & administration; Interviews; Logistic Regression; Long Term Care; Male; Medicaid; Medicaid/statistics & numerical data; Middle Age; Middle Aged; Midwestern United States; Multivariate Analysis; nurses; Odds Ratio; Ohio; organizational characteristics; Organizational Culture; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Questionnaires; Registered Nurses; Rural Areas; social workers; Social Workers; Surveys; T-Tests; Telephone; United States; Urban Areas
Organizational characteristics may impede the uniform adoption of advance care planning (ACP) best practices. We conducted telephone interviews with site directors of a Midwestern state's Medicaid waiver program administered by the Area Agencies on Aging and surveyed the 433 care managers (registered nurses and social workers) employed within these 9 agencies. Care managers at 2 agencies reported more frequent ACP discussions and higher levels of confidence. Both sites had ACP training programs, follow-up protocols, and informational packets available for consumers that were not consistently available at the other agencies. The findings point to the need for consistent educational programs and policies on ACP and more in depth examination of the values, beliefs, and resources that account for organizational differences in ACP.
Baughman Kristin R; Ludwick Ruth; Palmisano Barbara; Hazelett Susan; Sanders Margaret
The American journal of hospice & palliative care
2015
2015-08
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1049909114530039" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1049909114530039</a>
Outcomes of Patients With Syncope and Suspected Dementia.
80 and Over; Aged; Dementia – Diagnosis – In Old Age; Dementia – Risk Factors; Dementia – Therapy; Emergency; Human; Iatrogenic Disease; Inpatients; Interviews; Length of Stay; Middle Age; Office Visits; Outcome Assessment; Outcomes (Health Care); Patient Assessment; Patient Discharge; Physicians; Prospective Studies; Surveys; Syncope – Diagnosis; Syncope – In Old Age; Syncope – Mortality
OBJECTIVES: Syncope and near-syncope are common in patients with dementia and a leading cause of emergency department (ED) evaluation and subsequent hospitalization. The objective of this study was to describe the clinical trajectory and short-term outcomes of patients who presented to the ED with syncope or near-syncope and were assessed by their ED provider to have dementia. METHODS: This multisite prospective cohort study included patients 60 years of age or older who presented to the ED with syncope or near-syncope between 2013 and 2016. We analyzed a subcohort of 279 patients who were identified by the treating ED provider to have baseline dementia. We collected comprehensive patient-level, utilization, and outcomes data through interviews, provider surveys, and chart abstraction. Outcome measures included serious conditions related to syncope and death. RESULTS: Overall, 221 patients (79%) were hospitalized with a median length of stay of 2.1 days. A total of 46 patients (16%) were diagnosed with a serious condition in the ED. Of the 179 hospitalized patients who did not have a serious condition identified in the ED, 14 (7.8%) were subsequently diagnosed with a serious condition during the hospitalization, and an additional 12 patients (6.7%) were diagnosed postdischarge within 30 days of the index ED visit. There were seven deaths (2.5%) overall, none of which were cardiac-related. No patients who were discharged from the ED died or had a serious condition in the subsequent 30 days. CONCLUSIONS: Patients with perceived dementia who presented to the ED with syncope or near-syncope were frequently hospitalized. The diagnosis of a serious condition was uncommon if not identified during the initial ED assessment. Given the known iatrogenic risks of hospitalization for patients with dementia, future investigation of the impact of goals of care discussions on reducing potentially preventable, futile, or unwanted hospitalizations while improving goal-concordant care is warranted.
Holden Timothy R; Shah Manish N; Gibson Tommy A; Weiss Robert E; Yagapen Annick N; Malveau Susan E; Adler David H; Bastani Aveh; Baugh Christopher W; Caterino Jeffrey M; Clark Carol L; Diercks Deborah B; Hollander Judd E; Nicks Bret A; Nishijima Daniel K; Stiffler Kirk A; Storrow Alan B; Wilber Scott T; Sun Benjamin C
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
2018
2018-03
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/acem.13414" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1111/acem.13414</a>
Report on ISCTM Consensus Meeting on Clinical Assessment of Response to Treatment of Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia.
*Schizophrenic Psychology; Antipsychotic Agents/*therapeutic use; Cognition Disorders; Cognition Disorders/diagnosis/psychology/*therapy; cognitive assessment; Functional Assessment; Humans; Interviews; Neuropsychological Tests; neuropsychology; Nootropic Agents/*therapeutic use; Patient Selection; Psychiatric Rehabilitation/*methods; Research Instruments; Schizophrenia; Schizophrenia – Drug Therapy; Schizophrenia/diagnosis/*therapy; Severity of Illness Index; Surveys; treatment; United States Food and Drug Administration
If treatments for cognitive impairment are to be utilized successfully, clinicians must be able to determine whether they are effective and which patients should receive them. In order to develop consensus on these issues, the International Society for CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology (ISCTM) held a meeting of experts on March 20, 2014, in Washington, DC. Consensus was reached on several important issues. Cognitive impairment and functional disability were viewed as equally important treatment targets. The group supported the notion that sufficient data are not available to exclude patients from available treatments on the basis of age, severity of cognitive impairment, severity of positive symptoms, or the potential to benefit functionally from treatment. The group reached consensus that cognitive remediation is likely to provide substantial benefits in combination with procognitive medications, although a substantial minority believed that medications can be administered without nonpharmacological therapy. There was little consensus on the best methods for assessing cognitive change in clinical practice. Some participants supported the view that performance-based measures are essential for measurement of cognitive change; others pointed to their cost and time requirements as evidence of impracticality. Interview-based measures of cognitive and functional change were viewed as more practical, but lacking validity without informant involvement or frequent contact from clinicians. The lack of consensus on assessment methods was viewed as attributable to differences in experience and education among key stakeholders and significant gaps in available empirical data. Research on the reliability, validity, sensitivity, and practicality of competing methods will facilitate consensus.
Keefe Richard S E; Haig George M; Marder Stephen R; Harvey Philip D; Dunayevich Eduardo; Medalia Alice; Davidson Michael; Lombardo Ilise; Bowie Christopher R; Buchanan Robert W; Bugarski-Kirola Dragana; Carpenter William T; Csernansky John T; Dago Pedro L; Durand Dante M; Frese Frederick J; Goff Donald C; Gold James M; Hooker Christine I; Kopelowicz Alex; Loebel Antony; McGurk Susan R; Opler Lewis A; Pinkham Amy E; Stern Robert G
Schizophrenia bulletin
2016
2016-01
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbv111" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1093/schbul/sbv111</a>
Preparing students for residency interviews through a residency interview boot camp.
*Career Mobility; *Internship and Residency; *Interviewing skills; *Mock interview; *Residency training; Adult; Curriculum/trends; Education; Feedback; Female; Humans; interviews; Interviews as Topic/*methods/standards; Male; pharmacy residency; Pharmacy/*psychology; Pharmacy/methods; residency interviews; Students; Workforce
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To describe the offering of the residency boot camp activity at one college of pharmacy for students in their fourth professional year. EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY AND SETTING: Student pharmacists in their final professional year of pharmacy school were invited to participate in a voluntary residency boot camp activity. Originally, the activity consisted of four parts: (1) guidance on preparing for residency interviews; (2) a 1:1 mock interview with a resident, faculty member, residency preceptor or area program director; (3) a review of the student's curriculum vitae (CV) and letter of intent; and (4) a review of the application timeline and process. Based on the feedback, the activity was changed to include five parts: (1) orientation/welcome session, (2) mock interview, (3) case presentation, (4) podium presentation, and (5) a debriefing session on the day's activities and to answer any remaining student questions about the residency application process. In the second offering of the residency boot camp, students were invited to complete a voluntary pre- and post-assessment of their perceived readiness for residency interviews. The activity has evolved based on student feedback to focus predominately on the group and 1:1 interviews. FINDINGS: Since starting the activity in 2013, 14 of the 21 students (67%) from the class of 2014, 16 of the 25 students (64%) from the class of 2015 and 24 of the 26 students (92%) from the class of 2016 that applied for residency training participated in the residency boot camp activity. For the Fall 2014 offering where a survey was conducted, the pre- and post-survey instrument used a Likert Scale, ranging from "strongly disagree" (score of 1) to "strongly agree" (score of "5"). DISCUSSION: and conclusions: Simulated exercises such as a residency boot camp can expose student pharmacists to important interview readiness skills. Student pharmacists involved in this activity demonstrated a perceived positive effect of such activities.
Ulbrich Timothy R; Boyle Jaclyn A
Currents in pharmacy teaching & learning
2017
2017-07
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cptl.2017.03.030" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.cptl.2017.03.030</a>
The Personal Social Networks of Resettled Bhutanese Refugees During Pregnancy in the United States: A Social Network Analysis.
Bhutan; Communication; Community health; Extended Family; Female; Human; Interpersonal Relations; Interviews; Maternal and child health; Ohio; Pregnancy; Psychological; Qualitative Studies; Refugees; Refugees – Psychosocial Factors – In Pregnancy; Social network analysis; Social Networks – Utilization – United States; Social support; Stress; United States
Women comprise 50% of the refugee population, 25% of whom are of reproductive age. Female refugees are at risk for experiencing significant hardships associated with the refugee experience, including after resettlement. For refugee women, the strength of their personal social networks can play an important role in mitigating the stress of resettlement and can be an influential source of support during specific health events, such as pregnancy. A personal social network analysis was conducted among 45 resettled Bhutanese refugee women who had given birth within the past 2 years in the Akron Metropolitan Area of Northeast Ohio. Data were collected using in-depth interviews conducted in Nepali over a
Kingsbury Diana M; Bhatta Madhav P; Castellani Brian; Khanal Aruna; Jefferis Eric; S Hallam Jeffery
Journal of community health
2018
2018-12
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-018-0518-9" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1007/s10900-018-0518-9</a>