The ESR informs the ARCP panel whether you are developing knowledge and experience across the 13 capabilities and 9 clinicial experience groups in a way that would be expected from a trainee at the same level of training. You will have a full or interim ESR at least every 6 months in training. Your Educational Supervisor will take into account the evidence available from your eportfolio but may also refer to evidence gained from working with you on a day to day basis as well as any feedback from colleagues, other trainers, patients or staff.
The ESR concludes with a recommendation to ARCP as to whether your trainer feels you are ready to proceed to the next level of training. The Educational Supervisor can refer you to the panel for an opinion if he/she has concerns about your progress.
It is your responsibility to set up a time for this meeting with your educational supervisor at 6 monthly intervals usually before the end of each job for full time trainees. In advance of each of these meetings you should work through the “review preparation” menu on your eportfolio. This has 4 parts:
- 1. Review your capability and clinical experience group coverage. The number of entries you have made for each capability and clinical experience group will be shown on the pie charts in your e-portfolio. Consider the areas where you have less entries and aim to increase your coverage here. When you are in specialty based hospital training it is recognised that your coverage of the clinical groups may be uneven but you should aim to make your learning as broad as possible.
- Complete the self rating scale, against each of the 13 the capability areas. Competent means competent within a GP setting so you should only very rarely expect to be competent in ST1 and 2. Prior to ST3 the expectation is that you will be needing further development.
- 2. Review your mandatory evidence. Ensure you have at least the minimum numbers of assessments. In ST3 you will need to be demonstrating competence in these.
- 3. Check that you have completed all of your mandatory training for the past 12 months this includes:
- – Child and Adult Basic Life Support with AED (a face to face course with a certifcate uploaded as supporting evidence)
- – Level three child and adult safeguarding training (this needs to be completed when you start training and repeated if your certificates expire during training
- – An update in child and adult safeguading (not necessary if you have completed the level 3 training in that 12 month period)
- – A clinical case review on a child safeguarding case you have been involved in and another clinical case review on an adult safeguarding case
- 4. review your PDP and update this to reflect the work you have done to complete each learning objective. During the ESR meeting with your educational supervisor you will have an opportunity to write your PDP for the next 6 to 12 months. You will need to write a PDP for your first year post CCT as your final ESR.