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Reflective Writing Assignment: The Halfway Point

Reflective Writing Assignment: The Halfway Point

This term marks the half-way point in your undergraduate career. It is an important time, as you make the transition into full time clinical attachments. The day to day reality of being a medical student can mean that you are always focussed on the next assessment hurdle, without much opportunity to consider the bigger picture; why you came to study medicine, how your earlier understanding of medical practice is being shaped and changed by your experiences as a student, and how all of this links to the doctor you will be in the future.  
Reflection is a key part of your professional development; you need to actively reflect in order to deepen your understanding of yourself as a doctor.  More information on reflection, and why we place such emphasis on it, is provided in the Parallel charts document under Hospital Assessments.
As part of your Core Clinical Block assessment you are required to write 1,200 words reflecting on how you envisaged medical practice when you originally chose to study medicine, what attracted you to it, and then reflecting on your experiences to date as a student; how have they shaped your vision of yourself as a future doctor. What kind of doctor will you be, consider the type of practice you are interested in and why, and those that do not attract you at present as well.
The content of your reflective written piece will be confidential and will be read only by myself. For your own benefit it should be honest and should include any negative feelings you might have about your experiences and your future career. 
In the future, it might prove useful to use these written reflections as teaching material or for research, although there are no plans to do so at present. If that was to happen, the reflections would be anonymised, any names removed etc.



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