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LO3 INITIATIVE – Planning & initiating activities. Students can articulate the stages from conceiving an idea to executing a plan for a CAS experience or series of CAS experiences. This may be accomplished in collaboration with other participants. Students may show their knowledge and awareness by building on a previous experience, or by launching a new idea or process. |
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LO5 COLLABORATION – Working together to achieve an outcome. Students are able to identify, demonstrate and critically discuss the benefits and challenges of collaboration gained through CAS experiences. |
This year during the first two seasons of Medical Society, I found myself contributing a lot more towards the planning behind what we were doing during our sessions. A topic I thought that we had never broached was public health systems. No matter where we were going to be applying to medical school in the world – each and every one of us was going to have garner knowledge about the respective health systems of the countries where we wanted to study. This could be especially helpful during interviews for universities/colleges or when deciding which country we would want to practice in for the future.
We had not done anything new in some time, so I decided to approach the student leaders. I brought up the idea to the current chairs of the medical society, and listened respectfully to my proposal and were more than happy to comply. Together we brainstormed what the plan could look like. Eventually, we ended up conducting a whole session on this topic. The slideshow that was presented is linked below. We organised an activity in which we split up everyone into teams. Each team was assigned a different country, and had to research about that country’s public health systems: history, fun facts, etc. Then each group had the opportunity to present information they had researched to the rest of the group.
Whilst, we didn’t all become experts on the different public health systems, it was a great introduction to the basics. The activity was a gateway that encouraged each of us to further explore the health systems of countries that were specifically relevant to each of us. The session was a success, and I hope that we can conduct similar activities in the future.
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