## Please check the Reflection Rubric file before you start writing.
This assessment requires you to write a reflective journal entry to
demonstrate your understanding, critical thoughts and analysis of your
learnings throughout the Introduction to Pharmacology unit specifically
referencing Module 1, 3 and 12.
You will need to choose one of the following topics for your reflection:
• Pharmacokinetics and Paediatrics
• Pharmacokinetics and Ageing
Word document or similar
750 words
This assessment requires you to write a reflective journal entry to
demonstrate your understanding, critical thoughts and analysis of your
learnings in Introduction to Pharmacology throughout this semester.
It is important to write concisely and avoid simply restating a discussion
or life experience without showing evaluation and analysis about a
situation, such as what you learned from it, how your opinions or
understanding may have changed, what you might do in the future if
you were to encounter a similar situation.
In-text direct quotes and paraphrased material from modules
should be referenced APA style (including in and end text
references).
Backward Looking
1. How much did you know about the subject before we started?
2. What problems did you encounter when you worked through this
topic? How did you solve them?
3. What resources did you use while working on this topic? Which
ones were especially helpful? Which ones would you use again?
Inward-Looking
4. How do you feel about this topic? What parts of it do you
particularly like? Dislike? Why? What did/do you enjoy about this
topic?
5. What did this topic reveal to you about what you had learnt
throughout the semester in Introduction to Pharmacology?
Outward-Looking
6. Did you do your work the way other people did theirs or how
teacher expected learners to?
7. In what ways did you do it differently?
8. In what ways was your work or process similar?
9. If you were the teacher, what comments would you make about
your study of this unit and topic?
Forward-Looking
10. Have you changed any ideas you used to have on this subject?
11. As a learner, one thing I would like to improve upon is….
12. What would you change if you had a chance to study this unit
again?
13. How will your learnings in this unit influence your future study
and career?
Your writing should include specific reference to:
• Physiological differences/changes in your ‘special population’
and how it impacts each of absorption (including route of
administration), distribution, metabolism and excretion. i.e. you
will need four differences one for each ADME component.
• Ensure you utilise APA referencing when direct quoting or
paraphrasing unit / external material (in-text and end-text).