Help to complete your reflective portfolio assignment:
Guidelines:
The next submission deadline is: 12 noon on Friday, 25 August 2017 at 12 noon (thereafter, 12 noon on Friday, 23 February 2018)
Full guidance is given in this document. It contains details regarding what we are looking for, our marking criteria, submission dates, assignment layout etc. Our marking guidance can be accessed here. Please read this before undertaking the assignment.
Quick tips on preparing to write your assignment are given here: https://sefce.net/en-gb/resource/141
Quick tips on completing your assignment are given here: https://sefce.net/en-gb/resource/139
Example essays are provided below. The authors have given us permission to share these. Numerical marks have been deleted but they are all examples of 'very good' or 'excellent' essays. Our marking schedule has now changed so that marks are not awarded - purely PASS or NOT YET Pass but otherwise the template is unchanged. You will notice that they are very different from one another, but that each one is a personal, honest and critically reflective account of the author's development as a clinical educator.
Essay 1 Essay 1 markers' comments
Essay 2 Essay 2 markers' comments
Essay 3 Essay 3 markers' comments
Other useful things:
1) Marking scheme The standards required for an assignment to ‘PASS’ are derived from, and consistent with, those of the University of Edinburgh’s current Postgraduate Common Marking Scheme. As such, assignments will be awarded a ‘PASS’, ‘NOT YET PASS’ or ‘FAIL’. The marker and moderator will compile feedback on your assignment, based on our marking guidelines. A blank copy of our feedback document and current marking guidelines can be found here at https://sefce.net/en-gb/resource/457.
Where the Board of Examiners decide that an assignment does not meet the criteria to pass, they will mark the assignment as ‘NOT YET PASS’. An assignment may then be resubmitted once. The resubmission date will be the next deadline for assignment submissions for the Programme. Candidates should arrange to have a discussion with a member of the Programme team.
If, upon resubmission, the assignment still does not yet qualify as a 'PASS', it will be awarded a ‘FAIL’. In this case, the candidate will not be able to complete Level 3 of the CEP.
2) The UK Professional Standards Framework (Higher Education Academy) document can help you self assess your own clinical education practice. It is a good idea to complete this BEFORE you start your assignment, but many participants have found that it is useful to complete it several times throughout the Clinical Educator Programme (CEP), for example when you start the programme, after you have had your teaching observation and before you start the assignment.
The UK Professional Standards Framework
3) Clinical Educator Programme learning cards are below, in case you forgot to complete them after you attended the workshops.
Effective Supervision Learning Card (new 2 hour)
Effective Supervision Learning Card (old 3 hour)
Giving Effective Feedback Learning Card
Impromptu Clinical Teaching Learning Card
Introduction to the MBChB Learning Card (old/pre 2016)
Introduction to the MBChB Learning Card (new/from 2016)
Introduction to Simulation Learning Card
Mentoring Skills Learning Card
Planning and Evaluating Your Teaching Learning Card
Presentation Skills Learning Card
Small Group Teaching Learning Card