Demonstrating Personal Qualities - Comparative Framework
Developing Self Awareness
Undergraduate
- Able to use information from peers, staff and patients to develop further learning
- Reflects on performance in end of term discussion and identifies own strengths and weaknesses
- Makes presentation at end of Student Selected Modules (SSM) and obtains feedback
- Acts as Chair in small group activities
Postgraduate
- Undertakes 360 degree feedback as part of appraisal
- Takes part in peer learning to explore leadership styles and preferences
- Takes part in case conferences as part of multidisciplinary and multi-agency team
Continuing Practice
- Engages in reflective practice
- Utilises information from psychometric measures
- Represents the profession as part of a multidisciplinary management team
Managing Yourself
Undergraduate
- Achieves consistently high attendance ratings from clinical attachments
- Complies with course/programme requirements in relation to attendance and submission of work
- Manages own independent learning and self assessment
Postgraduate
- Liaises with colleagues in the planning and implementation of work rotas
- Responds to service pressures in a responsible and considered way
- Completes written clinical notes on time
- Through feedback discusses and reflects on how a personally emotional situation affected communication with a carer
Continuing Practice
- Balances own plans and priorities with those of the service and other members of the corporate team
- Contributes to the development of systems which help themselves and others to manage time and workload more effectively
- Overcomes initial disappointment over findings of a recent patient survey which highlight a number of areas for improvement which had not been anticipated and focuses on positive ways of tackling these
Continuing Personal Development
Undergraduate
- Organises additional learning sessions
- Contributes to peer learning and undertakes peer appraisal
- Contributes positively to curriculum review meetings
- Contributes to course evaluation
- Recognises areas for further personal learning and development and addresses them (eg. using feedback from peers, supervisors)
Postgraduate
- Takes part in journal clubs and multidisciplinary training events
- Seeks feedback on performance from clinical supervisor/mentor/patients/carers/service users
- Seeks opportunity to visit other departments and learn from other professionals
- Reviews own practice against their peers
- Audits own practice for consistent delivery
- Takes part in significant event audits
- Initiates opportunities for peer learning
Continuing Practice
- Undertakes a range of formal development activities, eg. a management and/or leadership development programme
- Systematically updates on relevant issues associated with organisational development
Acting with Integrity
Undergraduate
- Elected by peers to position of responsibility
- Participates in ethics discussions understanding a patient's perspective
- Recognises and takes action regarding inappropriate behaviours of others
- Ensures academic and clinical probity
- Behaves ethically in all clinical encounters with patients, colleagues and teachers
Postgraduate
- Participates in ethics discussions and forums'
- Initiates clinical case reviews with multidisciplinary team
- Acts as mentor to medical students
Continuing Practice
- As professional lead within management teams, ensures that professional values and ethics are faithfully represented
- Identifies incompetent or suboptimal practice and investigates to determine reasons, taking corrective action where necessary
- Acts on information which would lead to improved practices and services
