Candidate Edge Slides
Significantly expanded presentation slides for Lesson 5: Candidate Edge, now featuring 12 slides covering the entire career journey: clinical resumes, professional branding (LinkedIn), externship strategies, healthcare-specific interviewing (STAR method), offer negotiation, and the first 90 days of professional practice.
STAR Strategy Worksheet
A student planning worksheet for drafting behavioral interview responses using the STAR method. Includes an interview preparation checklist specifically tailored for CMA clinical roles.
Life Skills Facilitation Guide
A comprehensive teacher facilitation guide for leading students through the Resilience Toolkit and STAR Strategy activities. Includes instructional tips, common student roadblocks, "win mining" exercises, and an implementation timeline.
Externship Success Slides
A presentation slide deck focused on the core pillars of success for CMA/CNA externships, covering appearance, reliability, initiative, and coachability to help students secure job offers.
Externship Evaluation Rubric
A formal clinical externship evaluation rubric based on the provided student evaluation form. This document allows preceptors to grade students on appearance, reliability, attitude, work quality, and safety using a 1-5 scale.
Mock Interview Rubric
A teacher-facing rubric for evaluating students during mock interviews. It covers first impressions, usage of the STAR strategy, clinical knowledge, soft skills, and initiative, providing a structured way to give hireability feedback.
Professionalism Self-Audit Worksheet
A student-facing self-audit tool designed to help students track their own clinical professionalism progress against the same metrics used in official preceptor evaluations. Focuses on image, reliability, attitude, and initiative.
Life Skills Facilitation Guide Complete
An expanded, comprehensive facilitation guide for the entire Vital Signs for Life sequence. Provides instructional tips, common roadblocks, and specific de-escalation and interview strategies for all five modules (Clock Watchers, Bedside Manner, Calm Clinic, Professional Pulse, and Candidate Edge).