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The student will watch a videotaped interview with a professional pharmacist expressing his/her views, experiences, challenges, and issues working with a vulnerable population, and submit a written reflection on the elements of the narrative that most impacted you as a pharmacy student using the guide suggested below.
Video is now available at the following link:
https://sharkmedia.nova.edu/media/Dr.+Kalumi+Ayala+Interview/1_j94f82dh (Links to an external site.)
This is a 20 minute (approx) video of Dr. Kalumi Ayala, interviewed by Dr. Georgina Silva Suarez.
Dr. Ayala’s CV is attached
Guide for reflection document:
Thinking Points when writing your reflections
You may want to watch the video more than once and note important answers and narrative that made an impact on you, or that highlighted something worthy of reflecting on.
What impressed you most, or what do you disagree with most, about Dr. Ayala’s overall narrative?
What type of environment does Dr. Ayala work in? How does that environment contribute to the care of the vuln

erable population patients? How does the environment reflect some of the strategies explored in the assigned readings?
What type of vulnerable population does Dr. Ayala work with, and what are the issues associated with this population?
What is your impression of Dr. Ayala’s strategies and approach to her patient’s needs and circumstances? Do you think they contribute to quality of care for this particular population? Are these approaches transferable to other populations? Why or why not?
What are the key take away lessons about the interview that resonate with you regarding how to interact with vulnerable population patients?
Any other comments, reflections, thoughts, responses and impressions taking into account the context of the assigned readings.
Do not write an exercise in which you are simply narrating what the interview was about.
Do not write a reflection in which you are merely using the thinking points above as a list of questions to be answered. Use them as thinking points to guide you.
Grading rubric is also attached.