Transitions, Transactions,

Belonging and Becoming

ePortfolios in Undergraduate

Medical Education

Dr Laura-Jane Smith

Academic Centre for Medical Education, UCL Medical School

The UMeP Collaboration

ePortfolios

“a purposeful assembly of a collection of

evidence of student learning and

achievement in selected domains, with an

element of intellectual engagement by the

student with the portfolio content and

associated learning.”

Purposes of portfolios

Helen C Barrett PhD http://electronicportfolios.org/balance/

t h e o r y

Barriers

Student perspective

“It’s a good way

of keeping track of

what we’re doing.”

“It just seems

like another tick

box.”

“I think it kind of

helps you bond

with them [junior

doctors]”

“when we actually

qualify it’s not this

other new thing we

have to get our heads

around”

“if.. everything got

burnt in a fire.. I would

have everything there

listed in my ePortfolio

“It would be nice

if there was an

app..with the kind

of accessibility of

paper”

The future:

m-learning

With thanks to Dr Deborah Gill,

Dr Alison Sturrock, Dr Rosie

Belcher, and all UMeP

collaborators

Dr Laura-Jane Smith @drlaurajane

@ACMEatUCL