MDC Professional Development Plan Reflection

A.  Reflect on what you have learned through your education and professional practice experience by doing the following:

1.  Describe your experience in the BSHIM program, including the following:

 your perceptions of health information management (HIM) before entering the program

•  how your perspective of HIM has changed as you have completed the program
•  how you think your experience in the program could have improved, including personal experience and academic experience
•  an area of HIM that interests you
   
• 2.  Discuss a situation from your education or professional practice experience when you had to use critical thinking and decision-making.

a.  Discuss how you plan to apply your experience from part A2 in future situations.
 

B.  Explain how you will participate in, and contribute value to, the health information management (HIM) field.

1.  Discuss two personal values and one general ethical principle that you plan to incorporate into your future career.

a.  Discuss two challenges you anticipate hindering your ability to maintain your commitment to your personal values and ethics.

b.  Describe two strategies you anticipate you will use to support your own personal values and ethics as well as those of your peers and coworkers when you are working in the HIM field.

2.  Explain how you will uphold three specific principles from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) code of ethics, not including the ethical principle discussed in part B1.
 

Note: These principles should be different than the principle in part B1.
 

      3.  Explain how you, as an HIM professional, would navigate a potential ethical dilemma related to the field of HIM.
 

C.  Create a professional development plan.

1.  Assess your current skill set by doing the following:

a.  Describe two skills you possess that will help you with your education and professional development in the field of health information management.

i.  Explain how the skills you described in part C1a will help you succeed in your future educational and professional development endeavors.

b.  Describe two additional skills you want to develop in the future.

i.  Explain how the skills you described in part C1b will help you succeed in your future educational and professional development endeavors.

c.  Write one SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound) goal for each of the skills identified in part C1b.

i.  Describe how each goal addresses each of the following components of a SMART goal:

 Specific: What is the goal?

 Measurable: How will you measure your progress in achieving the goal?

 Achievable: Do you have the skills required to achieve your goal? If not, then explain what skills you need to achieve your goal. What is your motivation for this goal?

 Relevant: Why are you setting this goal now? Is it aligned with your overall education and professional development plan?

 Time-bound: What is the deadline for your goal? Is your deadline realistic?

2.  Develop an action plan that outlines 2-3 steps that are needed to achieve each of the SMART goals written in part C1c, including the following components:

a target date for completing the goal

resources needed

how you will monitor your progress

a contingency plan
 

3.  Explain how you plan to further your education (e.g., academic education, continuing education, credential, or certification) in the healthcare field. If you are not planning to further your education, explain how furthering education could benefit someone else who does plan to further their education.

a.  Provide information (e.g., a website link, flyer, etc.) about a continuing education course that could increase your HIM knowledge base.

i.  Explain how the continuing education course identified in part C3a could contribute to your educational goals.

b.  Explain how an industry certification or credential will support your professional development goals.

4.  Complete the five Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) practice tests in the course and provide a screenshot of your results.  (I’ll do this part)
 

Note: You can provide one screenshot or five separate screenshots of your results.
 

a. Analyze the results of your practice tests by doing the following:

i. Identify the domain(s) where additional study is needed.

ii. Describe two steps you will take to prepare for the RHIA certification exam. If you are not planning on taking the RHIA certification exam, describe the steps that you would hypothetically take to prepare for it.