Encouraging professional development through reflection

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Encouraging professional development through
reflection

• Dr Janice Ellis, Mr David Teasdale, Mr Chris
  Vernazza, Prof Mark Thomason

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General Dental Council

• Our product
• ..a caring, knowledgeable, competent and skilful
  dentist who is able to accept professional
  responsibility for the effective and safe care of
  patients, who appreciates the need for continuing
  professional development..
• The First Five Years

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General Dental Council

• Attitudinal learning outcomes
• a capacity for self-audit
• an awareness of personal limitations
• self-directed learning
• an awareness of the need for CPD
• lifelong learning
• good record keeping

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Professionalism

• The obligation to practise in the best interest
  of the patient at all times/one who puts the
  interests of their clients/patients before their
  own
• An occupation requiring special training
• A person who engages in an activity with great
  competence

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Professionalism

• Altruism
• Training
• Competence

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How do we become competent?

• Acquisition of knowledge
• Application of knowledge
• Evaluation of outcome and modification

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A learning spiral
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Reflection is

• central to learning
• essential for competence and professional
  development
• difficult

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Why, when, what and how?

• Incidental
• Lost unless recorded
• Rejoice, Emotion, Frequent, Learn,
  Extra-curricula, Challenge, Team
• Private
• How
• log, diary, art, music, poetry, e-portfolio

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E-portfolio

• Web based
• Secure
• Records clinical activity and formative
  assessments
• Facilitates reflection and PDP (gives the
  students a tool)

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• Reflective logs build up between tutorial
  meetings (April and September)
• Private to student

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What happens with the reflections?

• SWOB
• What can we do about weaknesses and barriers?
• How can we maximise strengths and opportunities?
• Does this episode (along with others?) identify a
  need that should be incorporated in your PDP?
• Prioritise

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Personal review and PDP

• Made accessible to tutors just before tutorial
  meetings
• PDP agreed with tutors
• Progress monitored

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Do the students use it?

• In last 12 months 800 reflective log entries
• At last tutorial meeting gt85 of students
  submitted a PDP to their tutors
• Year differences not significant
• Staff completion - delayed

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Positive aspects

• well received by staff especially the techies
• Facilitates PDP and encourages reflection
• Allows monitoring of compliance
• Intuitive very little training

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Negative aspects

• Time consuming
• Tutor-tutee connections
• Students v staff

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Next stage..

• Full cycle
• Does it develop professional responsibilities?
• Thank you for your attention