Module 1: Self-Reflection

In this step of the self-assessment tool, consider what external factors or trends are affecting your professional practice in dietetics and public health. Reflect on where you are in your public health career and where you'd like to be in the future. Consider your:

• past accomplishments
• current professional roles, responsibilities, or interests, and your ability to perform them,
• future professional roles or responsibilities you'd like to have,
• future directions of public health, the dietetics profession, and how they relate to you

What are your current interests in public health?

What roles or responsibilities do you perform now in public health/community nutrition?

What roles/responsibilities would you like to perform in the future?

What external factors or trends (professional, societal, environmental, personal) are affecting the public health profession?

What aspects of public health do you enjoy?

What are your current leadership responsibilities?

What do you want your future leadership responsibilities to be in public health?

What are your professional strengths in public health?

What public health skills would you like to improve or develop?

Take a few minutes to imagine what your life will look like in the future. Be reasonable, but also creative.

Five years from now:

This is what my life will look like:

This is my position title:

I am earning this type of salary:

I have the following advanced degree or additional training:

This is where I am living:

This is how my career goals fit in with my personal life:

Ten years from now:

This is what my life will look like:

This is my position title:

I am earning this type of salary:

I have the following advanced degree or additional training:

This is where I am living:

This is how my career goals fit in with my personal life:

Fifteen years from now:

This is what my life will look like fifteen years from now:

This is my position title:

I am earning this type of salary:

I have the following advanced degree or additional training:

This is where I am living:

This is how my career goals fit in with my personal life:

Based on the previous exercise, list 3-4 career goals for yourself:

Goal 1:

Goal 2:

Goal 3:

Goal 4: