Peer Activity 3 - An Expository Essay on Individual Competence, Perception of Health Barriers, and Skill Adaptation (360 minutes)
In this activity, you will choose a scenario that has a different culture/location than your own and reflect on your individual competence, perception of health barriers, and capacity to adapt your skills for resource-constrained settings.
Step 1. Study
Study these case scenarios and select one scenario that does not exist in your culture or location.
Step 2. Analyze
Analyze the selected scenario by reflecting on these points:
- What are your limits of individual competence to respond to the situation?
- Consider your strengths and weaknesses. Based on your current skill set, how could you provide the most contributions to respond to the situation?
- In the context of professional practice, how can integrity, regard and respect to others influence or impact your work in a selected cultural situation?
- How do your own beliefs impact your perception of barriers to health and healthcare about the selected culture/location? For example:
- Do you have any type of bias that drives you to attribute a health issue to cultural or individual factors and ignore structural causes?
- Did you have any pre-existing misconceptions that were clarified after learning more about the selected population?
- What are the similarities and differences about this situation between your own culture and the one you are studying for this activity?
Provide at least two specific examples/ideas of how you would adapt your current skills to make them more useful in addressing the case as a resource-constrained scenario. For example, if you are good at knowledge translation in big conferences, how would you adapt this skill for a small community?
Step 3. Respond
Write a 500-1000 word expository essay covering all the points introduced in Step 2 for the selected scenario.
Step 4. Share
To share your work, click on the “Add a new discussion topic” button under this post and paste your work in the “Message” box. Make sure to reference others’ intellectual property when necessary. All references should follow 7th Edition APA formatting. For further instructions, see the resource on the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library: APA citation resource (N.B. references are excluded from word counts).
Step 5: Interact
Evaluate and categorize the work from one of your peers based on items A - E of this rubric. Provide a rationale for the grade you’ve provided, as well as comments or suggestions for improvement. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “Post to forum.” You can use the list below as an example:
Item A is .…. because…. My suggestions for improvement are….
Item B is .…. because…. My suggestions for improvement are….
Item C is .…. because…. My suggestions for improvement are….
Item D is .…. because…. My suggestions for improvement are….
Item E is .…. because…. My suggestions for improvement are….