PPI2015 Assignment Specifications

Overview

For this assignment you are expected to reflect on your learning experience and question your learning and development. Your reflections throughout the course will help you to chart how your thinking progresses.  You will receive specific prompts throughout the course to reflect on your learning from each Unit and its application to your own practice. You will also have the opportunity to discuss your reflections in an online tutorial with your peers and the course leader. In addition, you may submit your reflections in Pebble+ to the course leader at the end of week 4 in order to receive formative feedback. This is not compulsory and marks will not be deducted if you don’t, but it is designed to be helpful in completing your assignment and you are advised to take advantage of the opportunity.

Details

For this assignment you need to write a narrative with supporting appendix reflecting on your personal academic and professional development as the course has progressed in relation to the following themes:

• Your knowledge of and attitude to patient and public involvement in research
• Your perceptions of how the course content relates to your own practice, including barriers to implementing patient and public involvement and how these might be overcome
• How you understand the theory and practice of patient and public involvement in research
• If/how, your thinking about patient and public involvement has changed during the course and what influenced this

Essentially, you are trying to demonstrate how you have monitored and enhanced your learning as a course participant through critical reflections on patient and public involvement in research and your response to it.

The 1500-word narrative should provide a reflective evaluation of your personal academic and professional development.

You should present extracts from your reflective diary to illustrate specific points, but the assignment should take a broader perspective where you look back and evaluate how your perceptions of patient and public involvement in research developed as you learned more and engaged in discussion with the expert lecturers, tutors and your peers during the course. You may also want to reflect on any discussions you had on the topic with clinical colleagues or patients.

You will find more detailed advice and guidance on IP IV in the reflective writing guide here.