Learning Log Entries - how many?

At the Pontefract Trainers Workshop yesterday we discussed the issue of trainees who have not started to engage with the ePortfolio. This mainly concerned new doctors to the scheme who are in ST1. What the trainers meant by 'not engaging' is not making regular entries on their ePortfolio or have only made a small number.

Of course there is no dictate from on high about the number or frequency of entries you should make. The only advice is that your ePortfolio should show a progression in your learning over the entirety of your training programme. Not very helpful if you are after advice about a specific number of entries or advice about how frequently you should make these entries. From my perspective the time to start doing something about inadequate ePortfolio entries is NOW rather than new May, just before an ARCP panel.

So ... how many and how often. I would expect a minimum of two entries per week, every week. So that means that we would expect you to have made twenty entries in your ePortfolio by now. If you haven't then the time to start is NOW rather than in May when if your ePortfolio entries are inadequate you face the long, long walk up the hill to an ARCP panel meeting in Leeds ... And we know you don't want to do that!