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Reflective Practice for Doctors Online Course overview
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Is this course right for me?
As a doctor, of whatever grade or specialty, you are expected to reflect upon and learn from your experiences. In addition, there are regular points where you have to submit written reflections, to provide evidence and demonstrate insight, learning and progression. Examples include:
- to complete a course and gain a CPD certificate
- preparation for appraisal or other progress review such as ARCP
- evidence toward completion of CCT, CESR or other training programme
- in response to a complaint or serious incident
- as part of an investigation
Unfortunately, learning how to reflect effectively is often neglected or poorly taught. So, many doctors find it to be a chore and even problematic. Many are confused or concerned over the regulatory situation and fear they risk exposing themselves to difficulties. There are many options and a range of approaches that can help. When performed well, reflection is a powerful tool for pulling together your thoughts, feelings and experiences, for gaining and developing ideas and to clarify the way forward.
The important thing is to find a personal solution that works for you. We’ve designed our course to help you with this.
What will I learn?
Throughout this course, we explore both the benefits and challenges of reflective practice. Using a carefully consider balance of information, presenting options and exercises we support you to discover the solutions and approaches that work for you. As one of the fundamentals, we clarify the legal and regulatory position of the output of your reflections. We outline how to both gain and demonstrate insight into your actions, choices and experiences. Then we consider the demands of creating written reflections, providing you with pathways to develop your internal thoughts into submissions that you can use for assessment, appraisal, career progression or any investigations. There’s little point investing time in deep thought if it doesn’t lead to change. So, we also guide you in methods for converting your reflection into practical action.
Ultimately, we’ve designed our course to put you in charge, equipping you to engage in reflective practice for your own personal benefit, using it as a tool to drive development of your competence, confidence, empathy and resilience.
What’s the format?
We expect the course to take you around 4 hours to complete. It’s split into 17 short sections. So, you can decide whether to complete the course in one dedicated session, or to dip in and out over the coming weeks and months. That allows you to work at your own pace, as and when you have time. You have 1 year (365 days) unlimited access to the course material.
As you work through the course, we provide you with an engaging mix of videos, animations, infographics, text and reflective exercises. We explore the benefits of reflective practice, discuss the challenges and provide you with ideas. But reflective practice is a very personal matter. Along the way, you meet our Course Panel. They are diverse group of doctors who share their thoughts and experiences of reflective practice via a collection of video interview clips. We encourage you to consider how their experiences and opinions align with, or differ to your own. When combined with the other materials and exercises, we support you to identify your own solutions, develop your personal approach and make reflective practice work for your own benefit.
You will receive your CPD certificate for your course when you submit your Final Reflective Learning Statement. We provide you with a certificate for 4 CPD points.
What’s the content?
Here is an index of the sections that make up the course:
1: Let’s get started
2: How do you feel about reflective practice?
3: The case for reflective practice
4: A range of approaches
5: Feelings about reflective writing
6: Legal considerations
7: Insight – what is it and how to get it?
8: Reflecting on challenging situations
9: Recognising the challenges
10: Reflecting with confidence
11: Structured approaches
12: Reflecting on successful situations
13: Adapting reflections for evidence
14: Other people’s perspectives
15: Challenges with including other people’s perspectives
16: Relating reflections to competences
17: Converting reflections to action
18: Final thoughts
How do I access the course material?
This is an instant-access course. So, as soon as you complete your purchase, you receive an automated email with a link to get started. Once logged to our website, you can access the course at any time from the link in your email or via the ‘My Account/ My Online Courses’ section of our website.
Your subscription now gives you 1 year of unlimited access to the online course materials commencing from the date of purchase.
