Just when you thought the ePortfolio could take the backstage(after finishing training) , it has reared it's head in the disguise of revalidation and annual appraisal. I personally have nothing against the eportfolio. Infact, it has guided my learning over the past 2 years and after using it for 2 years, I feel I have a hang of it. After initial scepticism, most of us have gotten used to it and use it on an average of twice a week. It has not always been an enjoyable experience. Filling all boxes didactically has been boring at the best of times. Many times, I have learnt something, tried to enter it on my eportfoilo but have felt that I do not need to enter all the boxes. Unfortunately, they have to be filled in order to show "reflective learning". I am sorry but not all my learnings are reflective. Most are but some are straight forward old fashioned reading an article, learning something and hoping to recollect it when faced with the situation the next time.

What did you learn, what will you do differently in the future, what further learning needs did you identify, How and when will you address these? Sometimes this takes away the joy of learning and makes the ePortfolio a laborious task. I am sure there are many trainees who will agree with me on these.

Now with Revalidation around the corner, we will have a new ePortofolio in the next 12 months and we will be back to using the logs. Guess we have an advantage over our seniors in that we have already been initiated.

Going by the RCGP guide to revalidation for GPs ( version 1.0, April 2009), the first year (2009-2010) should not be a lot different from the present annual appraisals. Second year onwards, there needs to be clear evidence of having collected 50 accredited points.


Going through my eportfolio, I find that I have earned 50 credits in 5 months...so rejoice trainees, we are a step ahead of our peers!

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