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Standard operating procedures and forms

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APPRAISAL

Appraisal is a discussion between the trainee and their educational supervisor about goals to be set or those that have been achieved. It should be a two-way communication that is informal, non-threatening, and confidential. The main aim of appraisal is to encourage and support the trainee. It is designed to help optimise training to the particular needs of individual trainees. One of the outcomes of appraisal is the Personal Development Plan (PDP) for the coming year.

ASSESSMENT

Assessment assures and improves the quality of postgraduate medical training, and thus optimises clinical practice. It is the formal measurement of performance by specially developed and validated methods for the purposes of classifying an individual against a standard. Trainees will experience formative local assessments when they undertake Workplace Based Assessments and summative external assessments in the form of the College examinations. The college examinations are outlined on the RCR website and Workplace Based Assessments are described and recorded in the e-portfolio.

At the end of each placement a Placement Report must be completed by the clinical supervisor.

Kaizen eportfolio

The College’s new eportfolio, Kaizen, was launched in September 2018.

Kaizen help page and training

Further information on Kaizen, user guides, videos and FAQs are being added to the RCR website https://www.rcr.ac.uk/clinical-radiology/specialty-training/eportfolio/kaizen and will be updated as we go along.

If you have any further concerns, queries or questions please contact the RCR's Portfolio team at kaizen@rcr.ac.uk

EDUCATIONAL SUPERVISION

Trainees are allocated an Educational Supervisor for the duration of training. They will hold regular meetings with the trainee to review progress. At the minimum this should include an annual induction appraisal, mid year review and end of year appraisal. These meetings will help inform the structured supervisor's report completed by the Educational Supervisor at the end of each training year for the annual ARCP.

The clinical supervisor for each attachment will complete the initial learning agreement and end of placement assessment forms for each attachment. The Educational Supervisor will review these forms with the trainee and use them to help complete the structured report for the ARCP.