These are some forms to download and review BEFORE the educational supervision meeting. Trainees should download AND COMPLETE at the very minimum the CBD and COT mapping forms prior to the meeting to help you reflect on things. Don't forget to bring these with you.
- The Educational Supervisor's Report Form
- CBD mapping form - to help you map what competencies have been covered, what has not and what needs further development
- COT mapping form - similar to the CbD mapping form but specifically for COT
- Using the e-portfolio for Ed Sup - the Bradford way (for supervisors)
- 10 important notes for ed. supervisors and form filling (essential reading)
- Dr. Denney's 10 point guide for completing the ESR (for supervisors)
- Finding your way around the e-portfolio for Educational Supervision
- RCGP's e-portfolio guide(for supervisors)
- Setting the Review Date (RCGP) (for supervisors)
- Educational Supervision Spreadsheet - for PDs (Excel document)
- E-portfolio help files
Optional Tools You May Wish to Use (and bring with you on the day):
- structured reflective template - audit
- structured reflective template - significant events
- structured reflective template - case review
- structured reflective template - personal learning
- structured reflective template - complaints
- structured reflective template - multisource feedback
- structured reflective template - patient survey
- structured reflective template - probity
- structured reflective template - health
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What Sorts of Things Will Be Covered in The Supervision Meetings?
The supervision meetings will contain summative and formative elements:
* To able to carry out effective supervision meetings tailored to your individual needs, the supervisor will need access to (and thus review) you e-portfolio. It is important to review the nMRCGP workplace-based evidence as recorded in the e-portfolio to ensure that you are doing the right number at the right times and making effective progress.
* They will also check to see whether you have done the AKT or CSA and if not, when you plan to take them.
- * The MSF/PSQ and the clinical supervisors report are felt to be quite good discriminators of how a trainee is doing.
* All of this will generate a collaborative "agreed learning plan" (through an appraisal type process).
* Educational supervision is particularly useful for identifying trainees with difficulties so things can be put in place to help training go more smoothly and successfully; for this to work required honesty and openess on your part. We hope the educational supervisor will create a safe climate in which you feel able to do this.
A Note on Feeding Back the MSF results for Educational Supervisors
It has been suggested that the person who is going to give feedback should have a meeting before the MSF starts to agree with the trainee how they would like to receive their feedback, after the trainer has seen it first. This should include the possibility that the feedback is unhelpful or destructive. Eg “Would you like me to send you the feedback so you can have a chance to reflect on it overnight, then we’ll have a meeting the next day to discuss it and agree actions?”. And there are many other ways it can be done. Don’t send the feedback to the trainee when you’re about to go on holiday for 2 weeks!