What's A Clinical Supervisor?

 

Clinical Supervisors are qualified specialists who have responsibility for the day-to-day supervision, training and assessment of trainees who are doing a secondary care placement in their specialty.   Therefore a GP Trainer, GP Educational Supervisor or GP (Training) Programme Directors cannot be clinical supervisors.  If a trainee is in an integrated post, then they will have a nominated clinical supervisor for each specialty. Make sure you find out who yours is.

 

if your clinical supervisor looks like this, let us know and we'll assign you another one

 

 

 

What's The Report Then?

 

Because a clinical supervisor refers to specialists in secondary care, a clinical supervisor's report can only ever generated in hospital posts. The e-portfolio has a section for the clinical supervisor to write a short structure report on the trainee at the end of each hospital post. This covers

 

* the knowledge base relevant to the post

* practical skills relevant to the post

* the professional competencies

 

The electronic form provides reminders of the definitions of the competencies to make writing the report easier. It may also be helpful to refer to the relevant curriculum statement on the RCGP website in reporting on the knowledge and skills relevant to the post

 

 

 

What's The Point Of It?

 

The report should

 

1. identify any significant developmental needs identified during a placement

 

2. point up any areas where the trainee has shown particular strengths

 

3. describe the progress of the trainee in terms of the evidence of competence rather than pass or fail.

 

If there are serious issues of professional performance or ill-health during a placement these will need to be handled by normal acute trust/primary care trust/deanery mechanisms. In such circumstances always liaise with the programme director of the training scheme and with deanery as early as possible.