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.
Educational Supervisors - the first three downloads are help/guide sheets that give you a framework for your ES meeting. Whilst they all assess and result in the same final outcome, the depth of explanation in each varies. Pick the one that fits in with you.
- Educational Supervision Framework - very detailed (good for beginners)
- Educational Supervision Framework - moderate detail
- Educational Supervision Framework - in brief
- The Educational Supervision Checklist for Trainees
- How many assessments and when? (summary of what to do at what ST stage)
- 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
- mini-CEX mapping form
- Log entries - advice on writing/evaluating
- Evaluating PDPs
- Using the e-portfolio for Ed Sup - the Bradford way (for supervisors)
- 10 important notes for ed. supervisors and form filling (essential reading)
- E-portfolio pearls - making the e-portfolio work for you
- 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
- 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 is Educational Supervision?
* a process of regular meetings between teacher and learner with support for the benefit of the learner
* a process which allows the demonstration of strengths and revealing of difficulties so that these may be helped to be put right within the framework of the objectives set at the start of the programme.
* a process that is confidential (except in defined circumstances), primarily educational and developmental, and designed to help the individual to progress
* a positive process to give someone feedback on their performance, to chart their continuing progress and to identify developmental needs.
* a forward-looking process essential for the developmental and educational planning needs of an individual
All these definitions are basically saying the meetings are there to help the learner by giving them feedback, keeping them on track for their training and helping them to develop in those areas where there is an identified need. |
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In Summary:
and also, it helps ensure you are "on track" for your training as a whole.
In assessment the trainee tries to hide what they are bad at; in educational supervision they should be comfortable about displaying it
Throughout your training you will have one educational supervisor and several clinical supervisors. You will have regular reviews with both. However, don't confuse the two. Each aims to do different things as illustrated in the table below.
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Looks at your overall educational programme (ie the whole training scheme) |
Looks at your clinical needs determined by your performance in your current post. |
Helps ensure you get appropriate training and experience in an integrated way throughout your training and make you aware of educational opportunities for your needs in terms of the training programme as a whole
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It ensures that an individual doctor’s timetable allows attendance at formal teaching sessions, is appropriate for his/her learning needs and that there is a correct balance between training and service in the placement.
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Helps you keep on track for nMRCGP and is where the multisource feedback is reviewed
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Involves a review of your assessments and feedback |
Carries out assessments that will be reviewed in educational supervision. The clinical supervisor will supervise clinical activity ensuring that the trainee only performs tasks without supervision that they are competent so to do. In essence, clinical supervisors oversee the day-to-day work of the trainee. |
Results in an educational supervisor’s report. The Educational supervisor will ultimately be responsible for signing off the trainee at the end of each ST year before progressing to the next. This needs to be recorded in the trainee's eportfolio. |
Results in a clinical supervisor’s report. Clinical supervisors will sign off workplace-based assessments, and write an end-of-placement clinical supervisor's report to be recorded in the trainee’s eportfolio. |
You have one supervisor throughout your entire scheme. Usually a programme director or trainer |
Your clinical supervisor changes every time you change a post Usually a consultant from the department you are working in |
In Yorkshire, you are meant to have two educational supervision meetings per post (roughly March & June / Sept & Dec
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Clinical supervisors are expected to hold formative meetings with their trainee at the beginning, middle and end of their placement.
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They will be the trainee’s initial point of contact in issues relating to the specific post.
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Often, appraisal and educational supervision are used interchangeably. However, educational supervision does hold some connotations that appraisal does not:
* Educational supervision can imply someone is checking up on you (as opposed to it being a developmental thing). Hence, it can feel more threatening to learners
* Educational supervision imparts too much emphasis on “education” (often perceived as knowledge), when in reality, personal and professional development are equally as important
A Note for Supervisors:
- * The MSF/PSQ and the clinical supervisors report are felt to be quite good discriminators of how a trainee is doing. Don't forget to look at these. The MSF is particularly discriminating.