Professional Development

My primary goal is to gain the knowledge, skills, and depth of thinking necessary to design factors and an environment that fosters interpersonal and collaborative skills in healthcare students that can be used in their real-world problem solving situations.

I would like to gain expertise that enables me to design an environment that:

Promotes learner awareness of differing perspectives and protocols inherently present within each individual,
Encourages learners to discover ways of constructively negotiating a shared understanding between members throughout the complex process that is providing optimal patient care, and
Guides learners to create and normalize a culture of safety in all processes related in teamwork

My short-term goals are to:

Take part in larger scale interdisciplinary collaborative projects in the context of healthcare and beyond
Teach or co-instruct at least one course before the end of my program
Publish at least 5 journal articles in a related field (education and healthcare)
Take part in writing a research grant proposal

Projects

STELLAR

I've had the privilege of joining the STELLAR team and experiencing what it is like to work in a multi-institutional collaborative research project. Because of my background in healthcare, this project served as a bridge between my profession as a pharmacist and my new life as an LDT Ph.D student.

Throughout my first year, I collaborated with other members on a variety of tasks, such as:

exploring data visualization tools and techniques to communicate key aspects of data to audiences
documenting and organizing meeting notes
compiling data for presentations
taking part in an alpha test
reviewing and completing line edits for a manuscript
presenting posters at the Annual Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Conference

I'm excited for this upcoming year as I will have the unique opportunity to witness the process of writing a NIH grant proposal with our collaborators.

Medical Professionalism

I'm currently involved in an international collaborative research team, working on a study exploring the relationship between community-engagement project-based learning and civic-mindedness of first-year medical students in South Korea.

For this project, I was able to gain experience working in the following areas of the research process:

transcription of interviews
qualitative coding process
using SPSS and Excel to analyze survey data

Presentations

Jay Rojewski, Janette Hill, Sejung Kwon, Jasmine Choi, Eunice Kim, Elaine Fisher, Ikseon Choi, Linda McCauley. Perceived Professional Competence of Clinical Research Coordinators. Poster presented at the Annual Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Conference, Pine Mountain, GA, February. 2020

Ikseon Choi, Sejung Kwon, Jasmine Choi, Eunice Kim, Janette Hill, Jay Rojewski, Elaine Fisher, Rebecca Thomas, Linda McCauley. The Self-directed Training, Education, Life-long Learning Advancement Resource (STELLAR) System: Design Concept and Demonstration. Poster presented at the Annual Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Conference, Pine Mountain, GA, February. 2020

Janette Hill, Jasmine Choi, Eunice Kim, Sejung Kwon, Jay Rojewski, Elaine fisher, Rebecca Thomas, Jeb Williams, Ikseon Choi, Linda McCauley. Clinical Health Professionals: Expanding Personal Development to Refine STELLAR Development. Poster presented at the Annual Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Conference, Pine Mountain, GA, February. 2020

Publications

Submitted / Under Review

Rojewski, J., Choi, I., Hill, J., Kwon, S., Choi, J., Kim, E., McCauley, L. (2020, under review). Perceived Professional Competence of Clinical Research Coordinators.

In progress

Kwon, S., Choi, J., Kim, E., Yoon, B., & Choi, I. (2020, in progress). First-year pre-medical students’ experiences in developing their civic-mindedness through a community-engaged service learning course. Manuscript in progress.

Choi, J., Kwon, S., Kim, E., Choi, I., & Yoon, B. (2020, in progress). The effectiveness of a community-engaged service learning on pre-medical students’ development of their civic-mindedness. Manuscript in progress.