NES ePortfolio

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NES e-Portfolio Karen Beggs e-Portfolio
Projects Manager, NES December 2007
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2005
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2007
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Medicine

• Foundation Doctors
• Physicians - Core Medical Training
• in partnership with Joint Royal Colleges of
  Physicians Training Board
• Paediatricians
• in partnership with Royal College of
  Paediatrics Child Health
• General Practitioners
• in partnership with Royal College of General
  Practitioners

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What do the healthcare professions want from an
e-portfolio? (the standard stuff)

• Reflection
• Learning
• Monitoring
• Competencies
• Assessment
• Supervision
• Personal / prof development

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• Linking learning with assessment

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Increasing e-Portfolio activity (18,288 trainees)
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Linking learning to competencies - Medicine
Comment self assessment
Curriculum area
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Linking learning to competencies - Medicine
Click here to see the actual assessments
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Linking learning to competencies - Dentistry
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Linking learning to competencies - Pharmacy
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Pick curriculum or competency list
Review and select the descriptor(s)
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Selected items added here
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• Personal Development Planning

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Personal development planning - Medicine
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Personal development planning - Dentistry
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Personal development planning - Pharmacy
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What do the healthcare professions want from an
e-portfolio? (the extras)

• Customisation
• Interoperability
• Quality assurance
• Communication

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Interoperability
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Interoperability

• Data exchange
• Data in eg e-Learning
• Data out eg moving to new e-Portfolio system /
  new stage of training
• DOTS / e-LfH / standards group

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Portfolio framework changes with career
progression
Career progression
Student
Expert
Portfolio framework
Flexible Private Self-directed
Structured Monitored Mandatory
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And from our perspectiveKeys to success?
The positives

• Access home or work
• No heavy folder
• Immediate review for admin / supervisor
• Email (messaging) communication
• Advertising local events / information
• Admin functions local control monitoring
• Speed of support development changes

• Enthusiastic champion(s)
• Local support
• Deanery (or equivalent) taking charge
• Communication particularly with supervisors
• Feedback to NES team re requirements /
  modifications
• Co-ordinated administration
• Willingness to give it a go

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And from our perspectiveKeys to success?
The negatives

• Enthusiastic champion(s)
• Local support
• Deanery (or equivalent) taking charge
• Communication particularly with supervisors
• Feedback to NES team re requirements /
  modifications
• Co-ordinated administration
• Willingness to give it a go

• Lack of information (top down)
• Local tweaking needed time commitment
• Lack of confidence with computers (supervisors)
• Increasing demands on supervisors and
  administrators
• The MTAS experience

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And from our perspectiveKeys to success?
And from our perspective Barriers to success

• Problems with co-ordination at strategic level
• Lack of communication with end users (
  administrators)
• Assumptions expectations
• Missing/incorrect information (specification/user
  s)
• Limited or rushed pilots
• Implementation time underestimated
• Shifting sands

• Enthusiastic champion(s)
• Local support
• Deanery (or equivalent) taking charge
• Communication particularly with supervisors
• Feedback to NES team re requirements /
  modifications
• Co-ordinated administration
• Willingness to give it a go

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And from our perspectiveKeys to success?
And from our perspectiveKeys to success?

• Enthusiastic champion(s)
• Local support
• Deanery (or equivalent) taking charge
• Communication particularly with supervisors
• Feedback to NES team re requirements /
  modifications
• Co-ordinated administration
• Willingness to give it a go

• Detailed requirements (avoid tbc)
• Rigorous piloting phased roll-out
• Defined and agreed roles (decision-makers)
• Enthusiastic champion(s)
• Regular communication re expectations
• Training ongoing requirement
• Realistic timescales
• Willingness to give it a go

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2008 - New platform
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2008 workload?

• Scotland only
• Dental trainees/PDP group
• Community nurses
• Nurse mentors
• Chaplains
• Clinical psychology
• Undergraduate dentistry
• RGU undergraduate nurses, pharmacists, life
  scientists

• UK wide
• All foundation doctors
• All CMT doctors
• Radiologists
• 29 medical subspecialties
• Obstetricians gynaecologists
• Anaesthetists
• Emergency medicine
• Paediatrics
• Ophthalmologists

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ContactAlex Haigalex.haig_at_nes.scot.nhs.ukKare
n Beggskaren.beggs_at_nes.scot.nhs.uk? (0131)
6509753/6514251