RCoA e-Portfolio and Paper Based Portfolio

 RCOA e-Portfolio

• The Royal College of Anaesthetists has developed an electronic portfolio (e-portfolio) which will be available to all trainees from August 2011. Your current name and email address has been sent to the RCOA when you accepted a post at KSS Deanery and when you register as a member of the RCOA you should receive your College Reference Number (CRN) and e-portfolio username and password. Please check the RCOA website for detailed information about the RCOA e-Portfolio - http://www.rcoa.ac.uk/index.asp?PageID=1711

• A RCOA Training e-Portfolio Guide has been developed by the RCOA to facilitate the new e-Portfolio. Please download the February edition of this guide while the Pilot e-Portfolio is in place and being tested by Bristol, Scotland South East and Northern Ireland Deanery. An updated guide will be available before the RCOA e-Portfolio goes ‘Live’ in August so please look out for this and update your copy when it is available.

• If you require any further information please get in touch with the RCOA e-Portfolio Administrator – Andrew Leabourne e-Portfolio@rcoa.ac.uk

• If there are missing Educational Supervisors or Assessors which should be appearing in lists for you to access – please could you email their details: first name, surname & email address to the e-Portfolio Support Team at: e-Portfolio@rcoa.ac.uk for the Team to check their details. You will be contacted to confirm if the individual exists on the system.

• Within your Core and StR Training Appendices issued by the School (see downloadable  2011 edition) you will be provided with the various Anaesthetics and ICM assessment forms, appraisal documents (which you may need to use; to be completed with your Educational Supervisor) and reminders to help you through your clinical & educational training and help you prepare for your Annual Review. It would be very helpful to us at the Deanery & School if you use the e-portfolio to place a copy of all the documents required for your Annual Review of Competence Progression (ARCP).

• The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) has not developed an e-portfolio so you will still need to use a paper based method to form a Training Record for the Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) module of your training. The FICM provides an electronic logbook which can be found at: http://www.ficm.ac.uk/ and further FICM documents can be found on our website or your individual CD copy.

Portfolio

Please note: CT1 and ST3 Trainees are required to use the RCOA e-portfolio.

• CT2, ST4-ST7 may use the KSS School of Anaesthesia 2010 version of the Core Trainee Portfolio, Core Trainee Guide and Appendices, Intermediate Trainee Portfolio & HST Trainee Handbook (which can be downloaded on this page) which has been distributed to every new trainee who started their training in August 2010 to use instead. Hopefully; if the portfolio, guide and appendices is used correctly it will help both the trainee and trainer provide the correct assessments and module sign-offs reflected in the Anaesthetics curriculum at the end of each Training year.
• Please note that the Pain Module paperwork which was not included in the Higher Training forms and guidance CDs sent previously is now available for download above.