Libro blanco de las ACES Pediátricas 2024

Libro Blanco de las ACES Pediátricas 2024 284 ❚ 6 An annual assessment should be undertaken, ideally at a National level, to review competencies achieved and to allow progress within the teaching programme. Assessments should be detailed and contain statements of theoretical and practical experience accumulated by the trainee. It is expected that the trainee will also provide an account of the training received and problems encountered (portfolio). Reports will be submitted to the TPD or national body. 7. Requirements of Trainees In order to gain the necessary experience each trainee should be actively involved in the management care of a range of patients during the whole period of his/her speciality training. This should include the care of outpatients, inpatients (including emergency admissions) and community care where appropriate. Many countries have recently reformed their postgraduate medical education. New pedagogic initiatives and blueprints have been introduced to improve quality and effectiveness of the education in line with outcome-based education using the CanMEDS framework. Competency based assessment, as an adjunct to knowledge assessment and portfolio completion, is an important aspect of evaluation. CanMEDS consists of the following competencies • Medical expert: integration of all CanMED roles applying medical knowledge, clinical skills and professional attitudes • Communicator: effectively facilitates doctor-patient relationship and dynamic exchanges before, during and after medical encounter • Collaborator: effectively work within healthcare system to achieve optimal patient care • Manager/integral participant in health care organisations, allocating resources and contributing to health care system • Health advocate: responsibly use expertise and influence to advance the health of individual patients, communities or populations • Scholar: demonstrates lifelong commitment to reflective learning and to creation, dissemination, translation of medical knowledge • Professional: committed to the health and wellbeing of individuals and society through ethical practice, professional led regulation and high personal standards of behaviour. Log-book The trainee should keep a written log-book of patients they have seen, procedures conducted, diagnosis and therapeutic interventions instigated and followed-up. This will constitute part of their portfolio. The trainee will be required to keep his/her personal logbook or equivalent up-to-date according to National guidelines and European Union directives. The logbook must be