Compass Cases logo
Compass Cases
Find your direction in healthcare, one patient story at a time.
Compass Cases compass mark

You've met the team. Now tell us what you found.

A short reflection to close your Compass Cases experience: what worked, what you're now curious about, and the people you'd want to talk to next. It takes about five minutes.

Before you start — your privacy

This reflection is voluntary and anonymous. You don't need to enter your name, and taking part (or not) changes nothing about using Compass Cases.

We are not asking for any medical or health information. Please don't include a real patient's name or any private medical details in your answers — keep your questions about people, roles, and careers. Your responses are used only to understand what worked and to make Compass Cases better.

When you're done you can print or save your own copy, and you only share it if you choose to.

Part 1 · Quick ratings

How was the experience?

For each statement, choose how much you agree.

Strongly
disagree
Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly
agree
Part 2 · What worked, what didn't

The good and the rough edges

Be honest — the confusing parts help us as much as the good ones.

Part 3 · Your curiosity

What are you curious about now?

Think back to before you started, and what's changed.

Part 4 · Your next steps

Who would you want to talk to, and what would you ask?

Across the cases you met many of the people it takes to care for one patient. The questions you wrote as you went are gathered here automatically — review and edit them, add anyone else you'd want to reach, and keep the whole list as your own "next steps."

Tip: specific, real questions are great — just keep them about the role and the career, not private medical details.

A little about you · optional

Optional context

This is optional and stays anonymous. It only helps us see who Compass Cases is reaching. Skip anything you'd rather not answer.

This is not your name. It's a made-up code only you can recreate, so a "before" and "after" reflection can be matched without identifying you.

Finish up

Keep a copy for yourself — your "next steps" list is genuinely useful to hold onto.

Share Compass Cases

Know someone else who's figuring out their path in healthcare? Send them the link.

For educators — privacy, FERPA & data handling

This page is designed so the evaluation is woven into the experience but safe by default. It collects no name and no health information, it works fully offline (print or save a local copy), and it only transmits anything if a learner opts in and you have configured a destination. The notes below explain the choices and how to run it cleanly.

Why HIPAA does not apply here (and how we keep it that way)

HIPAA governs protected health information held by covered entities (providers, health plans) and their business associates. A career-exploration reflection completed by learners is not health care and does not create patient records, so HIPAA is not triggered. To keep it that way, the form never asks about a learner's own health, and it explicitly asks learners to keep real patients' names and private medical details out of their free-text — the same guardrail as the ethnography consent form. If you adapt this for the "Create your own" ethnography, keep that boundary: map roles and careers, not diagnoses or test results.

FERPA

If Compass Cases runs inside a school, any learner response that can be tied to a student is an education record under FERPA. The default design avoids that by staying anonymous: no name, no student ID, no email. If you keep it anonymous and aggregate, you sidestep most FERPA obligations entirely. If you do collect identifiable responses, treat them as education records — store them in your approved school system, restrict access to those with a legitimate educational interest, and follow your district/institution's disclosure and retention policy.

Consent and assent (mixed HS + college audiences)

  • Under-18 learners: obtain parental/guardian consent and student assent before the activity, and make the evaluation clearly voluntary and separable from using the tool.
  • Adult (college) learners: a brief plain-language notice and their own consent is enough.
  • The on-page privacy box doubles as the plain-language notice; pair it with your standard opt-in/opt-out at the class level.

Recommended collection method (lowest risk first)

  • Print / save and hand in (default, most compliant): learners keep or submit their own copy. No data ever leaves the device, so there is nothing to secure centrally.
  • Anonymous hosted form (Google Form, Airtable, Formspree): good middle ground. Turn off email/identity collection, and confirm the service and settings meet your institution's data policy before use.
  • Opt-in submission from this page (anonymous): fill in the GFORM block near the top of the script with your Google Form's /formResponse URL and its field IDs (step-by-step in SET-UP-DASHBOARD.md). Responses collect in a Google Sheet you can chart in Looker Studio. Until you set it, the "share" checkbox does nothing and no network request is made.

Data minimization & retention

The form asks only for what the evaluation needs: four ratings, three short reflections, the next-steps questions, and a few optional non-identifying context items. The optional anonymous check-in code lets you match a before/after pair without a name — it's a learner-generated string, not an identifier you assign. Define a retention window, then delete or fully de-identify afterward.

Program evaluation vs. research

Used for program improvement, this is typically quality improvement and often IRB-exempt — but that determination rests with your IRB, not the team. If you intend to generalize or publish findings, consult your IRB early. This mirrors the guidance already in your Program Evaluation Plan.

How the "next steps" questions carry over

As learners explore each case, the question they write for each person is saved by the case page in the browser's sessionStorage (key compass-notes:<case>), along with that person's name, role, tier, and case label. When a learner reaches this reflection page in the same browser tab, Part 4 reads that store and pre-fills their questions automatically, tagged by case — no retyping. This page only reads that data; it never writes to storage. Because the cases use sessionStorage, the questions live only for that tab session and clear when the tab closes (or when a learner uses "finish/clear"), which is deliberate for shared devices. Two implications: link to this page from within the same session (e.g., from the closing "find your direction" step) rather than sending it as a fresh link later, and if you want a durable record, have learners Save or Print before closing the tab.

How this maps to your evaluation plan

Part 1 covers Kirkpatrick Level 1 (reaction), including the usability and engagement items. Parts 2–3 feed the qualitative "curiosity" and "what worked" strands. Part 4 is the "Next steps on your journey" artifact — the free-text questions you already flagged as the richest data; code them with your logistical / conceptual / systems-level rubric to gauge depth of interest.