Acute Medicine Assessments
From the summer 2007 trainees on Core Medical Training (CMT) and Acute Care Common Stem (ACCS) programmes will be expected to use the JRCPTB e-portfolio. This web-based portfolio will provide a record of progress through training and the acquisition of competencies, based on the relevant curricula. The e-portfolio includes facilities for direct recording of workplace based assessments, records of appraisal and ARCP outcomes.
The eportfolio is divided into the following sections. Each needs to be completed alongside a separate clinical logbook while in the medical module of ACCS.
- Personal development plan
- Self assessment
- Induction appraisal, midpoint meeting, final meeting and supervisors report
- Work place assessment forms
- Reflective practice: for clinical encounters, educational sessions, audit, research & clinical governance - these can be 'linked' to areas of the curriculum
- Record of competence - this must be completed by your supervisor
It is primarily the trainee’s responsibility to enter information into the e-portfolio but supervisors also have access to shared parts of the portfolio and have a responsibility to record appraisal outcomes and sign off the record of competence.
Access to the e-portfolio will be provided, initially at least, via deaneries and postgraduate education centres. Trainees, supervisors and administrators who have previously used the Foundation e-portfolio (or CMT pilot e-portfolio in Mersey deanery) should continue to use the same username.
Acute Medicine Workplace Assessment Checklist
The following document is a competency checklist for the acute medicine workplace assessments produced by the Royal College of Physicians and the ACCS committee. Trainees need o download a copy of this form and use it as evidence to be presented at their ARCP.
Getting to the e-portfolio
Trainees in England, Wales and Northern Ireland can access the e-portfolio here: www.nhseportfolios.org.
Using the e-portfolio
A guide for trainees (and their supervisors) on the role of the e-portfolio in training can be downloaded from the JRCPTB website at www.jrcptb.org.uk/assessment/Pages/e-portfolio.aspx.