Assignment: Guidelines for the Field Experience Requirement
You must "attend" at least 4 policy events, at least approximately 1 hour in length. Attendance of at least one of these events must be in-person.
Up to 3 of the 4 events may be online and they must have a health policy focus. Online health policy events/ webinars will be posted from which you may choose. In addition, you may identify your own online policy events, but please check with your instructor to make sure the events you choose are eligible for field hours.
In-person events must be health-related. For example, an example of in-person event would be attendance at a local board of health meeting, a local school-board meeting, a legislative hearing or meeting, a meeting by an executive branch agency that falls under your governor, a meeting by advocacy organization or special interest group, or a meetings of a political party, political group, or candidate.
General Guidelines
• At each event, take notes, and then write up an account and analysis of each event, using the template for field experience logs (below), and the Field Experience Rubric posted on Moodle.
• You are required to complete and post a field event report assignment every other week, in Weeks 02, 04, 06, and 08.
Template for Field Experience Logs
1) The name of the event/meeting and who has sponsored it.
2) Describe the steps taken in preparation for the event (beyond listening or attending the event).
3) Place, date, time, and length of hearing/meeting/event.
4) Topic under discussion.
5) Names of participants and their titles (to the extent you can get them).
6) Brief description of the testimony/meeting/event. (If more than one issue is presented, discuss a sampling of issues.)
7) Analysis of the health policy issue and its implications for healthcare. Integrate course content and readings in your analysis. This section should be approximately 500 to 750 words.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.