Reflection of a Medical Educator

Running head: REFLECTIVE WRITING
REFLECTION OF A MEDICAL EDUCATOR
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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1REFLECTIVE WRITING
The role of medical educators is different from educating in higher educators as the
primary duties of the medical educators are beyond teaching and learning and associated with
assessment and feedback to improve the quality of the process (Wald 2015). There are several
levels of competencies that should be present in the medical educators so that achievement of
these professionals’ goals could be achieved (Ellaway et al. 2014). In this paper, I will be
reflecting upon my experience of working as a medical educator and within that my ability to
comply with the ethical codes such as quality, respect, integrity and scholarship will be included.
While working as a medical educator I was aware of the core values as an educator and
these are: designing and learning the processes, teaching the nursing professionals about the
process, conducting assessment of the learning process, providing them ideas about research and
scholarships and implementing leadership skill to manage the process (Darling-Hammond 2016).
However, while working with the healthcare professionals, I faced several issues such as cultural
difference, differences in understanding, differences in ideas and lack of support or teamwork
within the team. These factors hindered me from achieving my goals and duties as a medical
educator. I was hopeful during the education sessions as I was aware of my core values and
principles, but was little nervous about the implementation of these in the process.
Hence, to implement the goals, I arranged sessions in which I provided training regarding
the importance of quality in the healthcare process and the strategies using which such quality
improvement related processes could be achieved (Ellaway et al. 2014). This session was
successful in managing the ideas and knowledge of the student healthcare professionals and their
thought process was diverted towards achievement of quality. In this aspect, I also provided them
with the importance of showing respect to patients, colleagues and healthcare professionals as it
helps to bridge the communication gap present in the process, making the complete healthcare