Dear Dirk, Daniel and Katja,
welcome to the CoBa trainee group
looking forward to meeting you soon
best wishes
Jude
Thursday, 5 March 2009
A personal view on portfolios
My portfolio contains a number of items:
- a program in which activities, course and congress are named which are needed to participate in or follow during your training
- a list of personal facts concernig personal accounts, completed and planned parts of the training, place where these parts were done, date of diploma's etc
- a number of lists containing several items to use as a guideline for development on different items concerning organisation, education, communication, managing nurses etc.
- an evaluation list to fill in in advance of the evaluation sessions - to keep track of plans and progression and set practical goals for yourself and methods/ means to do it
- an evaluation of the staff and others concerning the 360 degrees evaluation which is repaeted every time there is an evaluation session
- I admitted a list of practical accomplishments for example the number of central lines I placed
- a space to put the registration/diploma's you get when taking a certain course / participated in a congress etc
- a space for the "short clinical observation forms" (evaluation of a short moment of observation - matter of minutes, evaluates just a small aspect f.e. placing a line)
I only have a paper version, at present.
Especially the list of trainings/courses etc we needed to get done before you end the program was new for me and is a good thing to have.
For us it is not essential to keep a list of practical accomplishement (like IV lines) but I use it for myself as a reminder of what aspect to keep paying extra attention to. The questions which should guide you through a good self evaluation are most often quite broad/ open. It depends very much on the person filling it in how much it is useful, it appears to be very subjective. I find them sometimes vague and not always that useful, although they can also help. I'll see if I can send you some examples.
I do agree with the article - Driessen et al 2007 - "Portfolios in medical education: why do they meet with mixed success? A systematic review"
- don't make it to extended - only feels like filling in paperwork and not as an invitation to think and develop
- provide room for ones own ideas/ marking points
- if you do prescribe make it clear what is meant to be done - list of practical accomplishments, congress followed etc
- I do like the page which askes for specific goals and plans how to do it, although it can be thought to formulative.
- evaluation the opinion of the student through his portfolio against the opinion of his/her tutors is essential!!! Otherwise it will be just work needed to be done and not seen as a learning device (it is difficult to give a good / semi-objective evaluation of your own functioning without comparing it with the opinion of others)
One extra remark: I do think it is necessary for the trainer to actively ask for and check certain aspects. Maybe not the best way but I think in an education programme it is tempting to show your best sides and keep the rest a little bit in the background, while most often these aspects need extra work. Checking helps find the weak points and make them better. .
Best wishes! Annechien
- a program in which activities, course and congress are named which are needed to participate in or follow during your training
- a list of personal facts concernig personal accounts, completed and planned parts of the training, place where these parts were done, date of diploma's etc
- a number of lists containing several items to use as a guideline for development on different items concerning organisation, education, communication, managing nurses etc.
- an evaluation list to fill in in advance of the evaluation sessions - to keep track of plans and progression and set practical goals for yourself and methods/ means to do it
- an evaluation of the staff and others concerning the 360 degrees evaluation which is repaeted every time there is an evaluation session
- I admitted a list of practical accomplishments for example the number of central lines I placed
- a space to put the registration/diploma's you get when taking a certain course / participated in a congress etc
- a space for the "short clinical observation forms" (evaluation of a short moment of observation - matter of minutes, evaluates just a small aspect f.e. placing a line)
I only have a paper version, at present.
Especially the list of trainings/courses etc we needed to get done before you end the program was new for me and is a good thing to have.
For us it is not essential to keep a list of practical accomplishement (like IV lines) but I use it for myself as a reminder of what aspect to keep paying extra attention to. The questions which should guide you through a good self evaluation are most often quite broad/ open. It depends very much on the person filling it in how much it is useful, it appears to be very subjective. I find them sometimes vague and not always that useful, although they can also help. I'll see if I can send you some examples.
I do agree with the article - Driessen et al 2007 - "Portfolios in medical education: why do they meet with mixed success? A systematic review"
- don't make it to extended - only feels like filling in paperwork and not as an invitation to think and develop
- provide room for ones own ideas/ marking points
- if you do prescribe make it clear what is meant to be done - list of practical accomplishments, congress followed etc
- I do like the page which askes for specific goals and plans how to do it, although it can be thought to formulative.
- evaluation the opinion of the student through his portfolio against the opinion of his/her tutors is essential!!! Otherwise it will be just work needed to be done and not seen as a learning device (it is difficult to give a good / semi-objective evaluation of your own functioning without comparing it with the opinion of others)
One extra remark: I do think it is necessary for the trainer to actively ask for and check certain aspects. Maybe not the best way but I think in an education programme it is tempting to show your best sides and keep the rest a little bit in the background, while most often these aspects need extra work. Checking helps find the weak points and make them better. .
Best wishes! Annechien
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