Internal Medicine — Foundation of Discipline

F7 Identifying personal learning needs while caring for patients, and addressing those needs

Key Features:
- This EPA focuses on engaging in self-assessment and personal professional development as part of clinical activities.
- The achievement of this EPA is based on Competence Committee review of the resident’s submitted personal learning plans. The PLPs may be submitted via the electronic platform, as written documents or via submission to the Mainport Portfolio.
- The PLPs must include a variety of clinical scenarios, and include examples in which the resident identifies issues for further development/learning as well as examples in which a knowledge gap is rectified.

Assessment Plan:

Review of resident submission by supervisor, coach or academic advisor

Use Form 4.

Collect 6 submitted personal learning plans.

Milestones

• P 2.1. Demonstrate a commitment to improving one’s own performance

• S 1.2. Seek and respond to feedback on performance in the clinical setting

• S 1.2. Identify learning needs that arise in daily work

• S 1.1. Create a plan to address identified learning needs

• S 3.1. Generate focused questions that address practice uncertainty and knowledge gaps

• S 3.2. Select appropriate sources of evidence for a given practice-related question

• S 3.3. Interpret the evidence, including a critique of the relevance to practice

• S 3.4. Integrate the evidence into a solution for the identified learning need