Preparation
Consider your public health career goals and how you might set objectives and create action plans to achieve those goals:
What are the long-term goals and objectives of your vision?
What are the short-term goals?
These are key: the small steps you take every day are “the difference that will make the difference.”
How will you measure success?
What are the ethical implications of your actions?
How do your own goals align with Healthy People goals?
Overview
The first part of this assignment is a narrative paper and the second part is a graphical representation (infographic) of your personal road map to success.
narrative describing your strategies for success. Include the following:
Specific action steps designed to meet career objectives that are aligned with Healthy People goals.
Networking strategies to connect with peers, mentors, and organizations that serve a specific population.
Data sources and evidence-based studies to serve as resources for a long-term career action plan.
A description of ways that personal ethics and values influence decisions made while building a career in public health. Develops specific action steps designed to meet career objectives that are aligned with Healthy People goals, and identifies areas of uncertainty or knowledge gaps. Creates networking strategies to connect with peers, mentors and organizations that serve a specific population, and impartially evaluates the areas where alternative strategies might need to be adopted. Describes data sources and evidence-based studies to serve as resources for a long-term career action plan, and identifies assumptions on which the selection of sources and studies were based. Describes how personal ethics and values influence decisions made throughout a public health career, and impartially considers conflicting perspectives. Creates an infographic containing key steps of a career action plan, and highlights the rationale and motivational factors behind the design
Create an infographic containing key steps of a career action plan.
Search the Internet and other sources for examples of road maps, infographics, or other visual aids on which to model your infographic. You may wish to review the blog post on vision boards from this unit’s readings (linked in Resources).
Create your road map in PowerPoint, Visio, collage, or any medium you choose as long as your final is submitted in a course room-compatible format (such as DOC, PDF, JPEG, or PPT).
Images can be used to put a lot of information into a small space or to express ideas and feelings that cannot be expressed in words. They can elicit an emotional state that you can use to fuel your determination to succeed. Words alone are only as good as the determination you give them to follow through. Writes clearly and logically, using evidence to support a central idea, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics; the paper contains supporting examples for the main points.
