JOINT COMMITTEE ON HIGHER SURGICAL TRAINING

 

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To Postgraduate Deans
Programme Directors
Regional Advisors
Trainee representatives on all
SACs and JCHT A&E

 

26th March, 2001

Dear Colleague,

Re: Training Portfolio

The JCHST at its last meeting agreed that ALL trainees are to maintain a training portfolio. 
This training portfolio is also to include an academic portfolio. I have enclosed a copy of the required 
content of the portfolio and request that you ensure that all your trainees begin to collect this data. 
Please note that it is expected that this is backdated to at least January, 2001.

Trainees will be expected to produce their portfolios for their RITA meetings, SAC, JCHT A&E 
visits of inspection or any other assessment. Trainees will also be expected to produce for each year 
(usually to be presented at the RITA meeting) a summary of the changes to their portfolio during that year.

If you have any questions relating to this please do not hesitate to contact me.

Trainee representatives are asked to make this information known to their trainees.

For your information the details of the training portfolio will be available on the JCHST web site by Easter.

Yours sincerely

 

Representing

The Royal College of

Surgeons of Edinburgh

 

The Royal College of

Surgeons of England

 

The Royal College of

Physicians and

Surgeons of Glasgow

 

The Royal College

of Surgeons

Of Ireland

 

The Society of

Academic

Surgeons

 

The Association of

Professors of

Orthopaedic Surgery

 

The Specialist Surgical

Associations in

Great Britain

And Ireland

 
 
Tara Willmott (Mrs)
Secretary, JCHST

Enc. Copy of content of Training Portfolio

c.c.
Mr R Littlejohn, RCPS Glasgow
Mrs K Smith, RCS England
Mr J Forster, RCS Edinburgh
Professor K O'Malley, RCS Ireland

All Speciality Managers

 		  

 

 

Content of Training Portfolio

  1. Current up to date curriculum vitae
  2. GMC registration - annual certificate
  3. Contract of appointment to Type 1 training post including NTN/VTN confirmation form
  4. BST assessments to show satisfactory completion of BST. (Top Copy)
  5. Confirmation of passing FRCS/AFRCS or MRCS (if grading agreed then include this also)
  6. ATLS/APLS skills certificate and any credentials that contribute to this
  7. Basic Surgical Skills course - details that passed (as stated before not just attended but passed)
  8. Details of other courses, certificates etc.
  9. Bibliography
  10. Evidence that BST/HST posts have been completed satisfactorily Evidence could include
  11. Educational contracts for training as a whole (for programme)
  12. Six monthly educational contracts or educational contracts broken into specific periods i.e. completion of generality of the specialty or a sub specialty interest. These would include competencies to be achieved.
  13. Time table for each post (this would be part of the educational contract)
  14. Log book summary sheets - validated for each post and for each year
  15. Research portfolio (see attached document)
  16. Confirmation of attending /passing training the trainer or similar courses relating to teaching, appraisal or assessment
  17. Confirmation of attending/passing management skills course
  18. Details of absences from training, study leave, courses, research, sickness, maternity leave etc.
  19. Any other information trainee wishes to include.

 

 

Optional items would include:

 

 

Content of Research Portfolio

Aims & Objective

A trainee going into routine practice as an independent surgeon (Consultant) should:

In order to meet these aspirations we require all trainees to keep a record of research and audit activities and for programme directors to review and appraise the record and use it to maintain a programme of goals and milestones for a developing trainee leading towards independent practice. In terms of core standards the portfolio itself must show evidence of reflection and insight. It is reasonable to expect trainees to have presented something annually on a teaching programme and to have presented some audit or small research programme annually to the local group. Research leading to peer review papers and nationally acclaimed, peer reviewed meetings is to be expected but would not be in itself an essential requirement as evidence of satisfactory training. In the absence of such peer reviewed recognition, the overall make up of the research portfolio must be otherwise strong enough to reassure programme directors and SAC / JCHT A&E (as relevant) inspectors that the skills of the individual trainee meet the aims and objectives laid out. Ongoing commitment to audit is also essential and clear documentation of those projects should be present in the portfolio.

The record should accumulate over a period of training the following: