Who can be an educational supervisor on the RCPCH ePortfolio?
Before we add someone to RCPCH ePortfolio as an educational supervisor, they will need to meet these basic requirements:
- Be on the General Medical Council (GMC) specialist register1 OR have approved recognised trainer status on the GMC List of Registered Medical Practitioners (LRMP)
AND - Be working in the UK
What is expected?
The GMC defines an Educational Supervisor as "a trainer who is selected and appropriately trained to be responsible for the overall supervision and management of a specified trainee’s educational progress during a clinical training placement or series of placements." The Educational Supervisor is responsible for the trainee's Educational Agreement.
The GMC publishes information about trainers on the medical register, including doctors who have been recognised as a:
- named postgraduate clinical supervisor
- named postgraduate educational supervisor.
Doctors who hold either of these roles have a note on the medical register entry to say, "This doctor is a trainer recognised by the GMC".
Difference between a clinical supervisor and an educational supervisor
To continue to be recognised as a supervisor, trainers will be required to document evidence from the GMC's standards, which are listed below.
| Standards | Clinical Supervisor role? | Educational Supervisor role? |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Ensuring safe and effective patient care | Yes | Yes |
| 2. Establishing and maintaining an environment for learning | Yes | Yes |
| 3. Teaching and facilitating learning | Yes | Yes |
| 4. Enhancing learning through assessment | Yes | Yes |
| 5. Supporting and monitoring educational progress | No | Yes |
| 6. Guiding personal and professional development | No | Yes |
| 7. Continuing professional development as an educator | Yes | Yes |
RCPCH ePortfolio as an educational supervisor
RCPCH ePortfolio on the Kaizen platform is the online learning tool for you and your trainees to review activities and monitor progress through the curriculum. It stores everything trainees do in their timeline. You can read our guide on ePortfolio for supervisors.
Practically everything on RCPCH ePortfolio is trainee-led. This means that trainees start these forms:
- Induction forms
- induction meeting and personal development plan with educational supervisor
- clinical supervisor induction meeting
- Mid point review
- Supervision report forms
- clinical supervisor report
- educational supervisor report (this is the important one for ARCP)
- CSAC progression forms for GRID trainees
- Training post
- Workplace based assessments
- Adding supervisors
Courses
We frequently offer our Effective Educational Supervision course - see upcoming courses.
- 1. This does not necessarily have to be in Paediatrics - the decision to appoint a supervisor is a local decision outside of the remit of the RCPCH