The NHS e-portfolio falls short
As it stands, the NHS e-portfolio is a funny hybrid. The obvious ambition of its creators was that it would replace all UK medical trainees’ needs for insecure paper training records, and let their clinical supervisors assess the progression of trainees in their care. To my mind, it falls short of this laudable goal on two counts:
First, it has limited functionality on mobile devices and smartphones, so that to complete any assessments with clinical supervisors you realistically need to be next to a computer at the time.
Second, the e-portfolio as it stands provides no way to record your routine clinical activity. In short, it is a logbook without any logs.
As time goes past and the ARCP system of annual reviews beds down, progressively more emphasis is being placed on trainees having accurate records of their everyday clinical activity. Indeed, in a system where everything seems subject to change at the drop of a hat, and criteria for successful progression through training are continually revised, the one sure-fire certainty is that trainees with good logbooks will always be relatively safe. And yet, the e-portfolio continues to neglect this important aspect of medical training.
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