Learning Strategies, Learning Resources and the ePortfolio

Learning Strategies and Learning Resources

Each of the curriculum statements includes a section on learning strategies and learning resources. These tell you about some of the ways to meet the learning and assessment requirements of your training programme in each of your clinical placements and in the work-based learning opportunities available. Your Deanery can also help provide information on learning strategies as well as information about suitable resources. These include web-based teaching and courses to help meet learning needs in areas outside of your clinical placements – for example, in specialties where you are not going to work. You should discuss these options with your supervisors and programme director and look at the ‘Learning Strategies’ and ‘Learning Resources’ section of the relevant curriculum statement.

The ePortfolio

During your specialty training you will need to keep your ePortfolio up-to-date, using it to support your learning. Both the training and the continuing professional development (CPD) versions of the RCGP ePortfolios, link to the curriculum. The ethos of the ePortfolio is that it is a record of your learning and development and uses a reflective self directed style.

Your ePortfolio should not be just a repository of completed assessments, it is a record of your learning journey, a record for you to use and reflect on your learning, exploring possible areas of weakness and developing your self-awareness and self directing skills.

The curriculum is the central spine whereby you can tag your learning and performance to curricular statements, and the descriptors for the elements of Workplace Based Assessments are derived from the curriculum. By using the curricular statements and the derived descriptors you can make a self-assessment of your progress and compare it with what your supervisors or peers think.

You should be selective about tagging to curricular statements in order to be clear about your progress and see areas that need more attention.

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