PERSONAL LEARNING PLAN

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PERSONAL LEARNING PLAN

• Igor vab

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WHY?

• Personal
• Needs related
• Reflective
• Relevant
• Record for lifelong learning
• Appraisal / reaccreditation

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CONTENTS OF A PORTFOLIO

• Personal profile (curriculum vitae), including
  current clinical and non-clinical
  responsibilities
• Personal appraisal
• Practice profile
• Personal learning plan
• Records of learning activity

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CONSTRUCTING A PERSONAL LEARNING PLAN

• Step 1 What do I need to learn?
• Step 2 How do I know?
• Step 3 How will I do it?
• Step 4 How am I going to know if I have done it?
  

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WHAT DO I NEED TO LEARN ?(REFLECTION)

• What areas (organisational and clinical) make you
  anxious?
• What keeps cropping up in discussions on clinical
  or other matters that seems to be going wrong?
• What clinical conditions make you feel you can
  not cope?
• What are you good at (and might enjoy learning
  more about)?
• What conditions do you wish would present to your
  partners rather than yourself?
• Have any hospital letters suggested you could
  have done better?

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HOW DO I KNOW?

• Significant (or critical) event analysis.
• Keeping a clinical diary.
• Logbook "PUNS" ("Patients' Unmet Needs") and DENS
  ("Doctor's Educational Needs"). 
• Audit data.
• Consultants' comments.
• Partners' confidential appraisal.
• Staff views/observations.
• It may be helpful to find a mentor with whom to
  discuss your checklist.

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DEVELOPING A PLAN

•  It may be helpful to find a mentor with whom to
  discuss your checklist.
• Negotiation between learner and a
  tutor/facilitator
• Discussion in small groups between peers
• Alone i.e. a formalisation of the thinking that
  practitioners already do when planning their CME
• AVOID TEMPTATION TO FOCUS ON AREAS OF EXPERTISE
  RATHER THAN AREAS OF DEFICIENCY.

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PLANNING GOALS

• An outline of how you plan to address your
  learning needs.
• Try to make these "SMART"  Specific Measurable
  Achievable Relevant Timed.

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FOR EACH ELEMENT

• Timescale realistic
• Record of learning activities
• Evaluation
• Add to your portfolio

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EVALUATION

• Evidence that learning has taken place
• Assessment of what is learned
• Evaluation of its worth (? benefit to patients of
  the activity)
• Evaluation of the learning method
• Self-evaluation (by reflection only)
• Colleagues opinions

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TIPS

• Make time each week to work on the portfolio
• Write
• Review and edit it as it grows

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AND NOW?

• Start again. Develop learning needs for next
  year's plan (your plan will be changing and
  evolving continuously)
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AND NOW

• SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT