As mentioned in a prior Community Health Education post. This project really helped me to learn more about breast cancer as well as the education that is necessary for patients and families. I also learned how to work effectively with other medical students as well as nursing staff and did extensive research to develop the following surveys. These were given to the breast cancer education participants before and after the education sessions. They were the essential tools for our group to have quantitative and qualitative results for our project.
Survey A Chemo Preclass Questions UPDATED
Survey B Chemo Postclass Questions UPDATED
I selected these surveys to exemplify the competency of “interpersonal communication” as this artifact reflects the process that was involved when providing these survey to our patient population. Firstly, this information tool was created by using current information technology (PubMed) that found one prior survey from Emory University. We used this current literature as a format and proceeded to collaborate with the Breast Center nurses and staff to formulate our own survey. Secondly, we communicated continuously with the nursing staff so that these surveys were administered before and after the chemotherapy education classes. Therefore interpersonal communication was essential to the success of these surveys.
I would like to conduct clinical research during my medical career which will further my development in this competency.