I just got approved for a 160 hour internship where I shadow a podiatrist and am expected to write a paper on what I learned.
The paper requires me to establish three learning objectives beforehand, and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to what I should set out to learn? The guideline says to use the question "What do I want to be able to do at the end of this internship that I can't currently do?" to come up with the objectives. Each learning objective is also supposed to have the steps I'll take to achieve each goal, and then a section where it asks "How are you going to prove to yourself, your supervisor, and your academic advisor that you have these new skills?"
So basically the task is to come up with 3 learning objectives, the steps to achieve them, and how I'll demonstrate that I learned them. They are looking for specific things, not "I want to learn more about podiatry."
I was thinking one objective could be to learn "how to efficiently run a medical practice." The steps could just be things I notice about how the office is run that I think makes it run more smoothly. I could explain some specific things and that could be how I demonstrate how I learned it..
Another objective could be something like me learning about how podiatrists determine when surgery is necessary and when it isn't for things like bunions. The objective could read "I want to know how podiatrists decide when surgery is necessary for patients with bunions." I could just take notes on what patients are recommended surgery and what patients aren't.
I'm not trying to be lazy and turn to a forum to have someone else to my paper for me or anything.. just seeing if anyone has any general ideas as to how I should try to set out to do this? Are the objectives I came up with at least on the right track? Basically my question is what kinds of things can I set out to learn in a podiatrist's office? I want to get the most out of this internship, and want to make sure that my paper reflects my interest for the field. Any general answer would be appreciated..I can try to figure out how to implement it in the paper, but I'm just not exactly sure where to get started and what I should try to learn!
The paper requires me to establish three learning objectives beforehand, and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to what I should set out to learn? The guideline says to use the question "What do I want to be able to do at the end of this internship that I can't currently do?" to come up with the objectives. Each learning objective is also supposed to have the steps I'll take to achieve each goal, and then a section where it asks "How are you going to prove to yourself, your supervisor, and your academic advisor that you have these new skills?"
So basically the task is to come up with 3 learning objectives, the steps to achieve them, and how I'll demonstrate that I learned them. They are looking for specific things, not "I want to learn more about podiatry."
I was thinking one objective could be to learn "how to efficiently run a medical practice." The steps could just be things I notice about how the office is run that I think makes it run more smoothly. I could explain some specific things and that could be how I demonstrate how I learned it..
Another objective could be something like me learning about how podiatrists determine when surgery is necessary and when it isn't for things like bunions. The objective could read "I want to know how podiatrists decide when surgery is necessary for patients with bunions." I could just take notes on what patients are recommended surgery and what patients aren't.
I'm not trying to be lazy and turn to a forum to have someone else to my paper for me or anything.. just seeing if anyone has any general ideas as to how I should try to set out to do this? Are the objectives I came up with at least on the right track? Basically my question is what kinds of things can I set out to learn in a podiatrist's office? I want to get the most out of this internship, and want to make sure that my paper reflects my interest for the field. Any general answer would be appreciated..I can try to figure out how to implement it in the paper, but I'm just not exactly sure where to get started and what I should try to learn!
