RCOG ePortfolio – the Trainee Perspective Marion Beard ST4, Royal Glamorgan Hospital ST Induction Day, 14 th September 2012

Session goals To introduce ePortfolio To identify potential issues To give tips for ease of use To give some motivation?

RCOG View

WHY? As a record of clinical / surgical / ethical / management / teaching experiences As a tool to record our reflections on these The new face of the surgical log? As primary means of WPA As back-up for paper evidence To allow access to our evidence of learning by our supervisors Because we have to

Access Same platform as Foundation ePortfolio NHS Scotland via nhseportfolios.org (unique login) via RCOG homepage

Navigation and interface issues – Intuition less helpful than persistence – Inflexible folders and subfolders (eg. library) – Slow linking to curriculum / assessments / PDPs. Recommendation: plan your ePortfolio

Planning Link with paper portfolio – Same headings for ease of use – Update regularly Link with pocket portfolio – But ePortfolio not intuitive – filing of evidence needs to be planned.

Personal Library – Helpful back up of eg. Certificates of Attendance, Courses, feedback General Log – Detailed back up of any paper log Reflections – Clinical situations, mistakes, successes, ethical issues, team and communication issues...

Meaningful file names compress / consider size of file when storing, file wisely multiple back-ups.

– New job/supervisor Induction and Appraisal (Forms / Meetings) Supervisor issues 2. Educational agreement (Profile / Agreements and Guidelines)

Supervisor issues continued PDP (Reflection) 2.Work – Based Assessments CBD / OSAT / CEx / TO1

Reflection on reflection

“ Competent practitioners usually know more than they can say. They exhibit a kind of knowing in practice, most of which is tacit... Indeed practitioners themselves often reveal a capacity for reflection on their intuitive knowing in the midst of action and sometimes use this capacity to cope with unique, uncertain, and conflicted situations of practice.” Donald Schon (1983)

Reflections can be around: your own, or possibly others’ (with care!) practice complex situations including systems mistakes successes the memorable patient insights unexpectedly gained.

Reflections can: Improve your behaviour / response / ability to anticipate next time: management of change and uncertainty Defuse frustration Help you understand root causes Identify audit / research / management topics Make you feel better Help you through ARCP!

“.... then the practitioner may surface and criticize his initial understanding of the phenomenon, construct a new description of it, and test the new description.” Donald Schon (1983)

References Schon, D. (1983) The Reflective Practitioner. Arena, Philadelphia. Thank you