Development of Work-based Competence Assessment Processes

Alison PootStiofán Mac Suibhne

New Zealand Healthcare Regulation

Health Practitioner Competence Assurance Act (2003)

(1) The principal purpose of this Act is to protect the health and safety of members of the public by providing for mechanisms to ensure that health practitioners are competent and fit to practise their professions.

New Zealand Osteopathic Profession

Potential Applications of ePortfolio

Scope(s) of Practice

Capabilities Framework

Assessment Methodology

Why Portfolio / ePortfolio?

ePortfolio Assessment Tools

• Learning Needs Analysis

• Personal Development Plan

• Learning Outcome Reports

• Case based Discussion

• Critical Incident Report

• Critiquing journal articles

• Literature reviews

• Reflective statements from training courses

Focus on Practice

R U a Reflective Practitioner?Reflective practice: ‘the capacity to reflect on action so as to engage in a process of continuous learning’ (Donald Schön 1930 – 1997).

One of the defining characteristics of professional practice.

ePortfolio requires cultural change in professional practice

Slow burn: Implementation

Implementation Timeline• Scope of Practice Reform 2007 - 12• Osteopathic Capabilities Framework 2007-09• Development of work-based competence assessment 2010• PebblePad Preceptor Training Nov 2013• Unitec – Clinical Practicum 4th Yr Students 2013• Trialled for overseas assessment 2013• Grandfathering for WMA process Aug 2014 • Peer Group Training Aug & Nov 2014• Overseas Assessment Process from Jan 2015• Voluntary adoption by a group of 50 registrants 2015• Recertification Mandatory 2016/17

Overcoming barriers

Osteopathic Exceptionalism & Magical Thinking – We are just different!

Comply or Excel?

From the Ivory Towers to the Swampy Lowlands of Practice

Progress not perfection

Sorry I could not be there

Dr Stiofán Mac Suibhne stiofan@osteopthiccouncil.org.nzFollow #OCNZ on Twitter @OsteoRegulation