The spring prompts give you an opportunity to revisit your earlier reflections and update to include where you are now. We expect you to keep your fall reflections and edit to add your current thoughts. Do not simply add the spring prompts to the bottom of the page or a new section, integrate your new responses with the previous ones in one flowing paragraph to tell the story of your growth.

Fall Response

In fall you are answering the prompts for the first time. For example, in the fall you might say “I am hoping to grow in my problem-solving and confronting challenges and failure this year. These skills will be important for my future career as a healthcare professional. I am nervous about facing challenges and potential failure and would like to work on that. I also haven’t have many opportunities to practice problem-solving on my own.”

Spring Edit

In spring, edit your previous wording to reflect that these were your thoughts for fall and then add spring.

For an example using the fall wording above adapted to spring, “When I started the internship I was hoping to grow in my problem-solving and confronting challenges and failure. These skills are important for my future career as a healthcare professional. Over the last few months I have gained a lot of confidence in these skills. As an example, one task I have is to enter survey data into Redcap. At first I was nervous but I tried, made some mistakes, and asked questions when I wasn’t sure. My supervisor showed me how to check and fix my mistakes and it took some pressure off my worry about failing. One way I can continue to work on confronting challenges is to put myself in more situations where I may fail, such as asking for tasks that are new to me.” ^[1]