Welcome to the time when we're asking you to reflect on some of the things you've learned in this veteran centered care curriculum. One of the things that we will ask you over the course of the unit is to really review and think about some of your own implicit biases. Think about some of your immediate reactions when you look at someone, when you try to understand where they're coming from, we actually make a lot of immediate thoughts, assumptions, and categorization of people when we first see them. That's human nature, that's part of our development process as humanity. And what we want you to do is actually take what you have as part of your first reaction and often, there will be a prompt, after, there's a picture, and ask you about how do you might apply some of those reflections and thoughts when you see a photo of a veteran. There's really no right or wrong answer here. We really want to create a safe space for you to write your initial reflections and thoughts about how the picture might get you thinking, put you in a particular space, we'll give you an opportunity to jot down some of those thoughts as part of the assignment, and then we're going to give your fellow classmates a chance to actually read those. And again, your classmates aren't there to look at it and give you a grade on your reflection. There is no right or wrong answer here, we're asking your peers to look at what a reflection looks like coming from somebody else. They'll be asked, you know, does this make sense to you? Were the sentences constructed in a way that they allow one to present a cohesive argument about what those first initial thoughts might be, positive and/or negative? And we want you to have the opportunity, especially as healthcare professionals, to really react to some of the things that your peers might write down. Once you've done that, again, you'll be asked whether that's done or not done. There's no right answer, it's just, did they do the task at hand, there's a rubric that has been asked. An example would be, did they provide a rationale for their change in perception from the time before or after looking at the picture? Or they might be asked, did they demonstrate an understanding of social, cultural issues in healthcare? Again, doesn't mean you have to agree with them, it doesn't mean that there's a right answer, it just means were they able to present to you an argument that you thought was useful and contributed to the discussion. So that's what we're asking you, when you reflect on these pictures. I, too, have biases that come up and, you know, if you show me a picture of a great work of art, I was at the art institute and I saw a gray square and I had a lot of thoughts about that gray square that weren't necessarily positive. And I was like, how does somebody make hundreds of thousand dollars making a gray square, and that might be my initial thought about that, if it was a person, I might be, wow, they got paid millions of dollars from making a gray square. If I could present to you an argument about why that was useful or not useful, why that bias might shape me if that artist was coming into my clinic and I had that perception of their work, that actually might have an impact on how I'd care for them. Those are the kind of things that we'd like you to react to and show on your reflection. Good luck. Again, there's no right answer or wrong answer, we want to actually have you be very thoughtful in your reflections, we want you to do the assignments, and we look forward to reading some of your ideas.