A prominent education professor at Harvard has begun leading "reflection" seminars at three highly selective colleges, which he hopes will push undergraduates to think more deeply about the connection between their educations and aspirations.
The study was discussed with researchers outside the research group several times at seminars to enhance reflection during the analysis and to form confirmability.
Topics of the interview and the questionnaire included the perception of the seminar content, a critical reflection of the inverted classroom approach (usefulness of video and audio sessions, connection/synthesis with the face to face sessions) and the individual learning experience of the students.
This seminar will have three components: reflections on the on-line learning, feedback and discussion on prescribing data and on antimicrobial resistance data from samples submitted by their practice over a five to ten year period (depending on availability of data).
I use face-to-face classes as a spur to take our study of any given topic further online, thus extending it into areas of reflection and research not possible within the constraints of a seminar discussion.
In my seminar last January, we started our deliberations with reflections on the Sept. 11 attacks.
The seminars described in Table 1 were aimed at arousing a reflection on the meaning of illness, and the reactions to one's own illness or to a relative/friend's one.
The given room for reflection and discussion was appreciated by the students, who felt that the effects of this seminar might be of use even beyond the dissection course.
Facilitation in terms of reflection is an essential part of applying the intervention, and while the individual evaluations, seminars, and focus-group interviews are part of the intervention, the data collected on these occasions are used in the process evaluation, as well.
The interviews were held in association with a patient seminar, which might have heightened the participants' awareness of PCT and thus affected their reflections.
