From learning portfolios to personal development plans: a prerequisite for all healthcare providers (Russian version edited by Z.Z. Balkizov)
AbstractPrevious articles have focused upon the need to recognize and implement modern educational theory into practice, to make learning into a continuous life-long activity and relate learning to outcome measures. For each the practitioner has to develop the appropriate tools for these concepts to be both implemented and successful. But how do practitioners appraise what they have either been involved with or map what they intend to carry out in the future, or make themselves ready for a future time when accreditation and re-accreditation are realistic outcome measures?
In this article we put forward, for discussion, the use of modified Learning Portfolios which when combined with a Personal Development Plan, act as an educationally-directed developmental tool, identifying educational and training needs as well as record individual progress and success. The article will draw a comparison between this type of portfolio and the standard curriculum vitae, whilst demonstrating the potential for a learning portfolio to be a useful adjunct to a curriculum vita. «I always say, keep a diary
and some day it’ll keep you»
Mae West «Every Day’s a Holiday»
(1937, film)