General Instructions:
Following the activity, students are to construct a 1-2-page typewritten reflective essay on their experience and the themes, issues, and/or dilemmas that arose due to the experience. The essay is to be reflective, meant to represent your personal feelings, insights, and supported opinions about the exercise as they relate to medicine and/or being a student-physician. These essays are not to be written as summaries of the simulation, the debrief discussion or the resources. If you are a student in the rural or urban pathway, you may focus aspects of your reflective essay around issues of poverty specific to those areas and/or populations.
Submit the completed essay via AIMS no later than 11:59 PM on the assigned due date corresponding with the assigned date of the Simulation (see chart below). Essays will be evaluated using the Reflection Rubric. More information on the rubric and the assignment can be found in the "Assignments" tab on AIMS. Students will receive narrative feedback in response to their submission, with a completed rubric attached.
| Simulation Date: | Essay Due: |
| 9/24 | 10/1 |
| 9/26 | 10/3 |
| 10/3 | 10/10 |
| 10/31 | 11/7 |
Detailed Instructions:
The essay is to be reflective, meant to represent your personal feelings, insights, and supported opinions about the exercise as they relate to medicine and/or being a student-physician. These essays are not to be written as summaries of the simulation or the debrief discussion. The following questions may serve as a guide when reflecting upon your experience of the Poverty Simulation (students are not required to answer these questions):
How did the exercise/activity resonate with you?
What surprised you about the behavior and decisions made during the simulation?
How did other people respond to your needs? How did you feel about their response?
Did your attitudes change during the month? If so, how?
What experiences have you had or witnessed related to the issues addressed during the exercise and/or discussion?
How will your approach to patients/families/patient care be shaped by these issues and experiences?
What insights or conclusions have you come to about the life experience of low-income families?
This exercise/activity is in no way able to cover all of the complexities of poverty in the United States. How might the experience of poverty vary, based culture, geographic location (urban, suburban, rural, medically underserved community, other country), time period, etc.?
What other factors intersect with poverty and why is it important for you to consider these as a future physician?
Pathway students may focus aspects of their reflective essay around issues of poverty specific to urban/rural areas and/or populations.
Essays must be submitted as a Word document or PDF via AIMS no later than 11:59 PM on the assigned due date corresponding with the assigned date of the Simulation (Students will receive written feedback.
All essays start with a score of 100%, a minimum score of 80% is required to pass. Students will receive narrative feedback with a completed rubric attached. Students receiving a Fail score will be required to resubmit within 48-hours. Please see rubric for more details.
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